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Originally Posted by WaterWitchin
Not a fan of folks who show roses. (They weird me out as well.) One huge benefit of folks who show roses...they're REALLY into growing their roses, and will take larger piles of manure from me for their rose gardens.  |
Did you watch the TV show King of the Hill? If you did, do you remember the episode where Bobby decides he wants to grow roses, and he enters one in a rose show, and everybody there is sooooo weird? Yeah, it's actually a pretty accurate portrayal of a rose show lol
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Originally Posted by estación seca
People here think roses are hard to grow because the papers and TV shows put rosarians on all the time saying staggeringly stupid schlock like "plant the bud graft high" and "you need to pull off all the leaves in October to force dormancy and prevent fungus" and "you need to prune heavily in January." All of these are harmful to roses in hot climates. We don't get rust nor black spot. It's not humid enough. Mildew occurs in spring when it's cool and dry. Spores are everywhere so removing leaves only harms the plant. Roses here grow and flower luxuriantly fall-winter-spring, so the last things you want to do are strip leaves in fall and prune heavily in January.
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I do very little to my roses except for a hard prune once a year in early fall or so. Depending on the weather on a given year, I sometimes still have roses in bloom into early December. Pulling the leaves off couldn't possibly do anything but harm the plant. That's crazy.
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