When & How Do You Prune a Mr. Lincoln Rose Bush?
The Mr. Lincoln rose is classified as a hybrid tea rose. Its flowers are a dark, velvety red and may turn a deeper shade of purple around the edges due to sun exposure. The Mr. Lincoln rose can benefit from three kinds of pruning in addition to removal of dead or diseased branches: deadheading, general spring pruning and hard pruning. Deadheading removes old blooms and encourages new growth. While general pruning leads to smaller but more plentiful blooms, hard pruning produces fewer blooms that are larger. Choose general or hard pruning depending on your desired flower yield. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Remove any dead or diseased branches whenever you see them on the rose. A dead branch will be brown inside the branch rather than green. A diseased branch may have a white fungus growing on the outside, feel limp or look blackened, or be covered in scaly bugs. In these cases, remove the affected branch by cutting back to healthy growth.
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Deadhead the rosebush after a bloom has completed and is wilting or its petals are falling off. Clip away the bloom just above the first or second five-leaf cluster. Cut at a 45-degree angle with the higher side facing the leaf cluster.
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Do general pruning in the spring if you desire a greater flower yield with smaller blooms the following season. Prune back each branch to half of its original length, cutting at a 45-degree angle with the higher part facing the outside of the rose bush.
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Do hard pruning in the spring if you desire a smaller flower yield with larger blooms the following season. Select the five strongest canes--the branches that come from the ground. Reserve only these, and cut all the other canes back to the ground. Prune the tops of the five remaining canes so they are 8 inches high, cutting at a 45-degree angle with the highest part facing the outside of the rose bush.
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Tips & Warnings
Wear gardening gloves while pruning to protect yourself from thorns.
References
- Photo Credit red rose image by Earl Robbins from Fotolia.com
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I have a Mr. Lincoln Hybrid Tea rose bush that I planted about 10 years ago. It is about 5 ft tall and full. It blooms several times a year. About 2 years ago I planted 2 Knock Out Rose bushes about 8 to 10 foot from it. Just recently I found several blooms on the Mr. Lincoln that look a lot like the Knock Out rose blooms. How can this happen?
