When should you train and prune climbing roses?

Looking at the bundled shape, it is really great, and it should have been praised a lot. However, there is a deep concern because it is far from the time to train. Improper timing of training may have some bad effects, leading to a reduction in the number of flowers in spring.

Effects of early training

The normal training time for climbing roses is in the coldest season of winter, when the roses are in deep dormancy. Training operations at this time have a very small impact on climbing roses and are beneficial to the expansion of bud points and nutrient accumulation.

However, because climbing roses grow vigorously in autumn, they often grow in a ugly way in late autumn and early winter. Many flower friends, like the one in our training camp, choose to train in advance. But early training will at least have the following three problems.

1. Training difficulty is relatively large

When to train climbing roses

In late autumn or early winter, climbing roses have not yet entered the dormant period. At this time, there are many new branches and leaves, and the trend and state of the branches are not easy to observe clearly. Training at this time will undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty of training. The branches and leaves pulling each other can easily cause the branches to be pulled off.

2. Affecting the nutrient reserve of roses

If all the leaves of the climbing roses are removed during training, the whole training process will become much simpler. However, removing leaves will greatly affect the accumulation of nutrients in climbing roses.

Climbing roses love the sun very much and need leaves to photosynthesize and produce nutrients. If the leaves of the climbing roses are removed too early in late autumn or early winter when they are still in the growth period, forcing them into dormancy will definitely affect the normal growth of the roses and cause insufficient nutrient reserves.