Hi Mr. Bill.
You've got some roses here right?
- Yes sir.
- So what is the first thing we need to do when it comes down to pruning roses?
- Well to start with the tools, the big older stuff just to facilitate easing cutting I
use the heavy lopping pruners.
I do most of mine with this middle size.
- [Chris] I like that too, it's a pretty good size.
- Which is easier on my hands.
And then I use the hand pruners.
Good gloves, cause these things will eat you alive.
And then I've got this handy little stool that I can sit on and get in and do what I
need to do.
First thing I usually do is look for dead wood.
This is dead here at the bottom and so I just close to the main cane, I just cut that off.
And as you can see it's brown and it's not live, healthy tissue.
- Now once you've made that cut do you actually clean those off before you make the next cut?
- Well I usually wear a blue jean shirt.
Typically in between bushes I'll use a cleaner and I'll sterilize my pruners from bush to
bush and from customer to customer.
But one bush, it's either got it or it doesn't so I don't.
So I'll just do one and then I'll clean.
Okay now this, it's big and healthy at the top, but right here you see it's starting
to get brown and it's dead so just to facilitate, I cut it as close as I can.
Here's a small one which is kind of a small cane, I'll get rid of that.
And I'm opening the bush up as I go.
Anything smaller than a pencil you try to get rid off.
I'm just gonna take this out to open up the center of the bush.
- So why do we need to open it up though, just to get the air moving through?
- Air moving through, black spot is your biggest enemy and you have to spray which is a fungicide.
And if you've got air going through it doesn't just sit in there.
Anything if it's too closed you're gonna get disease.
If you get rid of the dead wood and the little small stuff, it just kind of gets easier and
easier to figure out where you are.
- [Chris] You can see it pretty good huh?
- You can see.
Now keep in mind I'm gonna go down depending on the bush.
The bigger bush if I left it here, it's gonna have more blooms with smaller blooms.
Now if you cut it down to 12 inches, 18 inches you're gonna have fewer blooms but they'll
be bigger.
So if you're wanting to take them in the house, you may cut them down a little more hard.
If you want a lot of blooms you just leave them out just for a garden rose.
Now here's another one that's kind of going in the middle.
I'm gonna take it out.
You always clean up after yourself, cause if you don't you come by here two or three
days later and you gonna need to look at something and those prickles and thorns will get you.
Just a little small growth that's not gonna do anything, I take those out.
- So again, anything that's growing on the inside you definitely wanna take those out.
- I try to make everything grow out.
Now find a good example.
Right here example I cut right above where the leaf actual is and we're a little late
because everything's leafing out.
Ideally you want it where there's nothing there.
But when you see these leaf structures at the leaf actual, if I cut above this, that
next cane's gonna go into the bush.
If I cut above this one it's gonna go the same way this is.
So I kind of manipulate mother nature, I try to cut this new cane where I cut it off last
year, I cut it so that it would grow out and not in.
- [Chris] And this probably took years of practice right?
To be able to get the way you want to?
- The first time I'm like oh I don't know how I'm gonna do this but if you mess up it's
just like a bad haircut it comes back and you just learn from your mistakes.
This'll come up and be out of the way I'll just kind of take that off.
This is in the middle.
It's a little harsh but you kind of have to teach this> I'm just gonna take this whole
big guy out.
And it just opens up the bush.
And the more you take off, you're gonna put that energy into the canes that you have left.
Here I'm gonna look for a bud eye, there's one facing up towards Chris.
I'm gonna cut it back that direction.
And I kind of think about what I'm doing.
I may have them a little taller in the middle of the bush and then on the bottom, where
they're away from each other and you'll have a nice form.
Here's a crossing cane, this is a big bulb, this is a little smaller.
So I'm gonna sacrifice that one.
Now here's some dead wood.
And the more you open it up, the more you can see.
Here's some dead wood I'm gonna take it out.
And then I'm gonna take this to there.
I'm gonna leave this bush typically a little taller than most.
I found a bud eye right here, I want it to come out so I'm gonna cut there.
I'm gonna face this because there's a bud eye here and the next cane will come out.
- [Chris] Now could you tell us, bud eye, what do you mean when you say that?
- Well on the cane, where this comes out you've got a shot for three.
Here's two right here.
Where a leaf is gonna be, you cut it right above that.
It's either gonna come out as a cane or it's gonna come out as a leaf.
And you've got three shots to get a cane to come out of there.
So a lot of times if I was gonna do this, I'd just break it off.
Cause I don't want leaves cause it's little late.
I want a cane to come out.
Typically this time of year I try to do it before they start leafing out.
You can see this is starting to leaf out, now it's already leafed out.
And I'll break this off and then hope that I'll get a cane out of it instead of a leaf.
Alright over here there's a little sticking out on this side.
Later on that'll have a leaf on it.
In the spring everything starts from the top and works its way down so where I prune here,
the canes will come up from the top.
You'll get some from the bottom, but most of where I pruned that next cane like this
is gonna come back that way.
This is coming in the middle and I see it's bothering Chris.
I'm just gonna take it down real low.
And you're like oh no I've got this big.
Well once I cut it, and let's just say I cut it here last year, the new cane's gonna come
out and you want your bigger canes at the bottom instead of up here at the top.
Because at the end of the year like some of these, they'll be ten foot tall.
That's questionable.
Is there a hole in there Chris?
- [Chris] There is a hole.
- Alright here's the culprit.
Do you see where a cane bore?
And that's why you use the Elmer's glue.
After I prune I'll come on top of these and put just a dab of Elmer's glue, not a lot
just a dab.
And that's just enough, it's a little old critter.
And he'll drill and lay his eggs and he might go a half inch or he might come all the way
down.
So if you go ahead and do that'll you'll save a big cane like that.
- [Chris] So it can be saved though at the end of the day?
- It can and what I typically do, is I just cut.
See he went down pretty deep.
So I'm gonna look to see how deep he went.
But you wanna get the healthy white pit in the center.
When you do cut it back, as fat as that looks, and I'm gonna stop there it's starting to
brown up some.
Then you'll have a healthy cane come out.
Now this is a new cane, which you want to do.
It's not a basal growth which comes at the root graft.
Wish I had eyes in the back of my head, I'll go back and double check that.
I'm gonna cut that so next year it'll have a cane and a bloom.
Which is takes about 40 days depending on the size of the bloom.
Once you cut that in 40 days you'll get a new cane come up.
It develops a cane and then you'll get a bloom.
And then 30-40 days then prune it back.
And I see where this is gonna go this way.
I see the little red dot.
I'm gonna cut typically about a quarter of an inch.
Ideally if you do it at an angle and run the water away that's fine.
Sometimes I do that and sometimes I don't.
And ideally a bush is 8, 10, 12 years old, you wanna take a big healthy cane like this,
cut it out in hopes of getting a newer cane.
Cause sooner of later it's gonna die.
So you get rid of it, you get rid of all that energy that's spent through that and you're
putting it in a new cane.
And that way you keep your bush invigorated.
- [Chris] Alright Mr. Bill we definitely appreciate this pruning demonstration that you've shown
us today.
- Thank you Chris.
For more infomation >> Что хорошего в YouTube? / Будет ли ютюб актуален в будущем? / Будущее ютюба - Duration: 3:10. 
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét