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Hello, my mother has a rose that just will not bloom! I believe it produces blind shoots but it does not display some of the common signs of a blind shoot. It has been recently pruned (all the way to the ground out of frustration). Left alone, it can grow over 6ft with thick stalks no blooms and thorns about a 1/2 an inch long! Is there any way (besides grafting) to make this monster bloom?
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Jonathan.........
You may be dealing with a once blooming rose that only blooms on old wood. Therefore, if you prune it back this year, there will not be any "old wood" next year for the rose to use to produce blooms. You may want to leave it alone for a couple of years for it to get back into a blooming cycle. With roses that only bloom on old wood, you would prune them after they have flowered. Then the new wood produced prior to the rose going dormant would be "old wood" for the next season.
Smiles,
Lyn
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