I have several rose bushes and they wont produce any buds.?

i have several rose bushes and they havent produced any buds or blooms at all. we removed them from an area where we removed big roses that werent blooming a year before. i think these roses that i have that dont bloom are seeds from the previous rose bushes. well they get tall and stringy but i cut them down to several in ches from the ground in feb. and not they are at least 3 feet tall and the stems are real thin but lots of green leaves and red leaves. i live in north florida and they get plenty of water they have leaves surrounding them and they are planted in the ground now cause i thought that was the problem. they might not be mature but i dont know if they are not mature then now they are least 3 years old.

I have several rose bushes and they wont produce any buds.?
If your "new" roses came from shoots that appeared beside the ones that bloomed, they are shoots from below the graft union and are useless for ornamental purposes.



Very often growers take the roots and stem of a very vigorous grower and graft on the flowering shoots of a weaker but more ornamental rose. The place where this graft occurs is called the graft union. Any shoots that come from below the graft union have to be cut right down to the ground as their growth will steal energy from the plant and not produce flowers.



It sounds like you might be waiting for flowers that will never materialize.
Reply:You may have once a year bloomers. Tall and thin sounds more like a ramber rose.......maybe even a rose root stock from previous rose that has died out.



This once a year bloomer must not be cut pack except right after they bloom..........as they set their buds for next year's blooms about 6-8 weeks after their once a year bloom.



Unless you have the space for a rose that will produce blooms just once a year, eliminate them.
Reply:Where are the stems coming from? Below the ground or from the trunk of the plant above the ground (and above the grafting knot just above ground)?



If they're coming from below the ground, this is the "wild" of the plant (what my aunt used to call it). It grows really fast, sometimes with a kind of flat stem instead of round, and it won't produce blooms. It also steals nutrients from the bloom-producing part of the plant.



Any shoots that emerge from the roots of the plant should be removed. The only stems you want are those produced from buds on the main trunk and subsequent branches of the plant. These will produce blooms.



Regarding maturity, even if you plant bareroot rose bushes in the spring, they will begin sending out buds and stems, and bloom that summer.

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