26 Rose Gardening: bud-pinching:
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This article is from the Rose Gardening FAQ, by Bill Chandler chandler@austin.ibm.com, Jolene Adams jolene@cchem.berkeley.edu, Brent C. Dickerson odinthor@csulf.edu, Karen Baldwin kbaldwin@veribest.com, and many contributors
26 Rose Gardening: bud-pinching:
When a Floribunda forms a bloom "spike" or "candelabra" - it is setting many
little blooms on one stem. To prune Floribundas for quality of bloom, rather
than the maximum number of blooms, pinch out the center, fat bud so the side
buds have a better chance at developing at the same time. This encourages a
big rounded mass of blossoms - a "spray." Floribundas like to do this so it
is relatively easy to persuade them to flower in this manner. Once some of
the blooms begin to fade, you can just cut out the few that are dying and
let the spray continue to develop blooms. Once the entire spray is spent, or
most of the individually blooms are finished, cut off the entire spray.
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