Hybrid Teas

I bought a collection of Hybrid Tea roses to plant on my allotment, just for cut flowers. I have never grown these before just the standard ramblers climbers and bush.

I have had a fair few blooms from them in this their first year, with reasonably good length of stem for the vase, but now a couple of plants have thrown up a cluster, should I be pruning this cluster out to promote yet more single stems?

Steve...

 

Hi @Steve R , some HTs do have say two or three flowers together but as you say " a cluster " I'm wondering if you received a couple of Floribundas by mistake.

 

This is the collection I bought, all arrived very well labelled from jparkers. All apart from one have given nice straight long stems and lots of them.

Buy Rose Hybrid Tea Collection | J Parker Dutch Bulbs

Steve...

 

I grow one of those, Fragrant Cloud, and that very often will have two or three buds at the top of the stem. I don't cut any buds off as I find if you cut them as the first one is open and the other one/two are showing colour they'll open in water too.

 

Hi Steve. I think I purchsed the same offer plus another. I'[ve dealt with Parkers since the 1960's and found them to be good. Sadly this last collection, I have had some failures. This I contribute to the lateness of supplying/planting bare root plants and my poor health. Chatting some time ago with JP. Parkers don't actually grow the roses. These are grown by a local grow to theit establishment and JP markets them. Any complaints etc, and JP honour their guarantee. No quibble. IMHO, one of the remaing good outlets to deal with.

 

Many thanks to all, I'll leave the candelabra for now, at least I can enjoy the flowers on the plot itself rather than taking for the vase. I think I should be growing the roses to produce a structure of sorts anyway, but I have been very greedy triumphantly taking home blooms for the vase.

Steve...