Prune & Train Young Climbing Roses

Thanks for your wealth of knowledge! This gives me confidence to let go of some of the canes. I always second guess myself if I made the right decision in cutting the younger stems for example 😅

“ there are winners, and there are losers”😂🌹

Excellent tips!!

🎋🌹SO HELPFUL 🌹🎋

I have an unusual problem. A Don Juan climber with only one main cane - about 1" thick at the base, brown and woody, with green(er) branching further up, in kinda like a tree shape. No blooms.

Suggestions for that situation? Thank you.

New subscriber here! I’m reviving an old flower bed for planting next Spring. I bought a 36” Amish wagon wheel with the idea of miniature climbing roses on it. I think a regular rose bush would be too large? Can’t wait to see how my project turns out. Thanks for the info.🌹

Really helpful! Thanks. What month did you do this?

Hey there ! Thank you for taking time to explain and share valuable content !
I have a maybe silly question... Is there a right way to prune a climbing rose into a bush ? I managed to do this with a few Eden roses (I just planted them in the wrong spot for a climber), but they bloom a lot from the secondary shoots, and it seems that keeping them a bush was somewhat a success.
But I tried to do the same with a Peach Melba rose... and it failed completely. Absolutely no blooms this year, all the secondary shoots just did nothing for me. Is there anything I can do - besides letting them climb something or move them ? :)
Cheers, and many thanks !

It would be interesting if you went back to the archway in the future to show the results of your pruning. Best wishes Alison

Hello from Shropshire! Funny to hear you mention the name of the place I'm in 😊

Is this climbing rose grow in container and buried in the ground?

Thanks for the video. Hoping to see more videos like this from you. I just purchased 10 climbing roses and hoping I can manage them all.

Thanks! I've enjoyed learning from you since Covid quarantine days when I chose roses as my new hobby to occupy myself. Your mannerisms are so calming and your obvious knowledge is apparent so I really trust you to build my confidence. I haven't watched you in quite awhile, I've been busy with making a living back into the workforce. I just wanted to say I know "money talks" so I'm sending a very small token of thanks but know that I value these episodes much more than a mere $5, yet that's staying within my budget. Thank you again, have a great day :)

Hi Jason! Fabulous advice. Where are your rose gloves!!! I live by mine!!!

Very helpful video. Thank you!

My climbers always freeze and die in SE Idaho. They start from the bottom all brand new growth. Is there anyway to protect them in winter so I don’t have to always start over?

Thank you for your content.

Can I still prune now? Or is it too late?

Very good, such a helpful video. Very instructive for example how you showed the difference in cane types. I’ve seen a fair share of pruning videos and this is definitely a better one. Thank you.

Your videos are so helpful and so to the point. Love it! Thank you!

Thank you, Jason! Very helpful video! I have a few climbing roses in my garden and I’m always hesitant to really get in there and prune for fear I’ll kill the plant. This year they’ll be pruned, right! Great video!

If you’ve covered this in other videos, I apologize for missing it. Nevertheless, I always thought you should not let branches crisscross each other because they can wound the plant. My question is this: When training roses to grow on an arbor, how do you accomplish the “S” pattern without creating crossed stems thereby risking damage to the plant? 🌹💚

Would you recommend applying any kind of substance, i.e., glue to the cut you made that removed the split cane? I have some freeze damaged laterals on my Don Juan climber that I need to remove. Thanks! Great video!!

Jason, i have one question. Here in Azerbaijan there is a rumor that rose plants bred for cut rose doesnt grow in a garden. Is it true? Can i grow cut rosee varieties in a garden? For example Dummen Orange Caraluna rose? Or Kordes Houdini rose. Climat and weather conditions in place i am living similar to New York.

This was so helpful! Thank you for sharing!

Love love love this video🎉❤❤🎉 It's clear and easy to understand. I love that you gave us three different examples and also explained why some canes are removed while others are left. Jason thank you so much for the great work!
Jason could you also share how to train climbers across trellis/arbor videos like this in the future? I know the basics but it always seems really complicated and technical. Looking forward to more videos from you 😊😊😊

Thank you for your lesson! Very important for beginners like me!

Hi Jason Some more comments about the trademark farce on roses I had a quick look at the video and picked up 2 so called ''names'' of Roses I think 'Constance Spry' was David Austins first rose before they started playing the trademark game. From what i found its actually a true variety name and not a claimed trademark like their later releases So anyone can propagate this rose and sell it as 'Constance Spry'
But the next rose is called Eden . I wonder how many of your readers out there recognise this as the identity ie Variety Name or a trademark
Well its a trademark and not the actual identity of the rose
Trademark holders are meant to police this ''misuse'' but of course they want people to identify the rose by the generically used trademark because they claim that word indefinitely (no one else can use it unless they challenge it at great expense)
Eden is actually a mere trademark for the rose variety 'Meiviolin' Many others would know this rose by the highly genericised and therefore invalid trademark Pierre de Ronsard

Very informative video. Thanks!!! What about the "looping" option when it comes to "climbers?" ...in order to initiate more lateral growth???

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and pruning skills with us Jason. I have a question for you, if you have time, about a Stanwell Perpetual rose in its second year. I'd like to train it on a short trellis, but it's so full of twiggy growth I don't know where to start with the pruning, and how much I should take away. Would you have any advice please?

Thanks for this Jason. I'm finally getting the rose I want for my archway - Zephirine Drohin - and so I suppose that since it will be a new one, I'll just make sure there is nothing going in the opposite direction and leave the rest to get established. This video was perfect timing. I have seen the other video, but I'll take another look to see how to train them horizontally to get blooms.

Thank you soo much!!i accidentally ordered climbing roses. I have no idea these existed. I wish had read read the description better. Now i don’t what im going to do because i put the right in the middle of my garden. Im brand new to gardening. Heres to i wont mess it up. One quick question what happens if i cant get any support? What can i do? Can i move them? Will i kill them moving them? I just get them a month ago. Hope you see my comment!

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Your explanation and filming was so clear and easy to understand. Brilliant!

I was curious why that first one you pruned looked like it is still in a pot buried in the ground. Is the bottom out of that container? I don't understand why that would be done. When you first introduced this video I thought the customer was going to be part of the pruning session but I reckon she can just watch the video...LOL.

Excellent video. Love watching your videos. Should I be leaving at least 4 or 5 main stems?

I really like the Lady Banks rose. Do you have any other recommendations, that bloom as prolifically as have nice clusters?

Excellent video, as always! Thanks for the tutorial!

I really appreciate this video. It's the best climbing rose pruning one I have seen. And I have watched many! Thank you Jason. I have a Kiss Me Kate that has huge thick unbendable canes. This year is it's third season. Your advice has helped me plan it's pruning this spring. My climbing New Dawn is in it's third year as well. But it is the flexible cane type that you showed. Showing both types is so helpful.

I have an established climbing rose, canes that I have sideways along a fence. Do I cut low the shoots that shot up straight from them?

Thanks Jason helped me alot. I find this a hard concept to get right but now I think I have it.

How can you identify a climbing rose

Yep, that's what I did with my rose, bend it and a lot of branches shot out. I'm the one my rose vine is now more like a tree. So many branches. I use the giant clippers to cut the vines. See if you can do a follow up on how the roses are growing.

Thank you for this clear explanation!

The thing about pruning any plant is fear. You can't really be wrong, unless you kill the plant. What you can be is less right. I encourage everyone to take five minutes to look at a plant and imagine what they want it to be in the future. If it doesn't work out, you can always adjust next season. We see less entanglement as better in the long run and pruning inside growth for air flow is always helpful for strong growth and disease resistance.

I love that Jason showed that decisions aren't always clear. It's not an exact science. He should probably get himself some battery pruners though. Take care Bud. Great Video.

Always useful, especially in the early spring.🤙

I love the logical explanation in these videos. I implemented your horizontal training techniques from the last pruning video and have found excellent results in new shoot sprouting. I will be looking forward to a video on how to prevent splits and injuries to the stems due the weight of the flowers.

Excellent video!! Thank you so much. I feel more confident now to prune my climber

I echo the many thank you comments from other viewers. I want to express my deepest thanks for what I consider (and other researchers in science) the most reliable and valid kind of information you present…. the empirically supported information, because it goes beyond any personal preferences of the viewer/presenter online and just gives the facts…. I like that. I’m so tired of having to be so skeptical about information on the internet. Thank you for giving us some respite.