How to take care of your roses

Bridle raeford
Particular facts sanfransisko

If you go to the trouble of buying and planting flowers high level at the beginning of the year, you have some nifty rose blossom on your hands that don't disgrace. get a life, once I snapped of the jungle ... as long as you have basic equipment, know when and where the pieces, and how to best longevity of vase, will.

Correct shears

We will give you any rosarians tool but our shears. We use for all, trim, trim, and harvest. Can't we walk across the park without it because we don't know when we're going to see something must come right now, before it gets worse or forget where.

Sharp shears must remain so cuts clean. sharpened can purchase those, not those that you need to start honing, it definitely will. "

Shears come in many shapes, sizes for different purposes. I finally settled on vilko No. 2. Buy American products whenever I had a reasonable choice, but moved to camp when it comes to Switzerland's shears.They're not cheap (any good ones), but they'll last a lifetime with appropriate care.

When to cut

Begin with your first tip with moisture from approaching the dusk and even gets morning sun.If you want flowers by some moisture in them as much as possible, before noon or after its decline.

Don't carry a bucket of water along when you go to cut flowers.All it will do is compress water your flowers weslosh. If cut in time, Roses will do quite well at least an hour without water.

Blooming every variety grown must reach a certain stage of openness could break if you expected to open further or. general rule to follow safer: wait sibals bottom.

When Sibals (those yarn-like leaves around buds) down the cradle, and open ("cracks" in the language of the florist), can reduce bloom. to what extent should open the bud before cutting one another up to vary.A few varieties with petals are must be open too far before I could reduce. also increases bitalagi, does the necessary degree of openness to bud.

Sibals control during cut flowers, you'll quickly become familiar with the differences in stages until may become disconnected. Audacity exactly as you know any of them could be safely with their sibals forlid remains tight.

Where to cut

If only one tip to memory, makes this one: If you cut the bloom is vital for Bush is leaving for cut flowers in the right place, and you should consult the patterns of leaves and rose.

Leaf rosette usually come in sets of three, five and seven, increase in number of blooms descending to the trunk. breeding older or special health groups brochure nine or more.For this lesson, only five.

Blooming cut correctly leave at least two sets of five publications on the trunk of which I snapped. more nice, but if the newly planted Bush cannot yet to abandon long stems, don't be greedy.

Choose a group of five Handbook above to make the cut are equally important: it must point to the outside of the Central jungle. at the very, bulletins, flows from it grows is Excel detects red bud swelling. This is the beginning of dormant eye rose will bloom about six to eight weeks after that make the cut.

Once you select a newsletter above five pieces, make a quarter inch cut above Excel 45 degree.

Adapting

Rikoting stems under water is the most important step to extend the life of all flower wooden stems not only roses. when disconnected from shrubs, drawing in the air and start making pockets when up to blame, causing the premature death blossom consent. when rikot stems under water reclamation not air and water as temporary leak when water was later transfer stems.

You don't need a large container of cut stems under water; a small bowl or Cup will do just fine. dip the end of the trunk in water and severance 1/4 inches in a corner and place the trunk in the pot lukewarm, that you have added a few drops of bleach spoon tea treat common household sugar. you will get further bonus when you see buds evolve plume size dinner.

Riedel raeford is former owner "garden Valley Ranch" in Petaluma, author of nine books, including the book "rose" (Chronicle Books, does not belong to this paper). home e-mail comments

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