I planted a New Year rose bush in early April. It is growing beautifully. It has a cane that is almost 6ft tall standing alone. It has another cane that I have trained along a rail and it has produced shoots 3 feet tall. All that said, I have yet to see a bloom.
You planted a climbing mutation of a bush rose. It’s attempting to grow to its mature size and should begin flowering once it has produced the root and foliage mass it requires to produce them. The plant looks great. I’d continue training the canes out along the railing so they produce lateral growths from them, which will then flower. Otherwise you will have flowers at the top ends of those long canes instead of a long cane full of flowering stems.
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That happened to me last year. My patience paid off. The rose was Arborose Florentina. It had healthy canes and leaves last year but absolutely no blooms. This year it is blooming beautifully and I highly recommend it. I did read when I researched the topic that this is not uncommon with climbing roses and might take three years. Your rose looks healthy…I am pretty sure your patience will be rewarded!
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Thank you for the replies. I am just training the cains and hoping for the best. My goal is to have all the roses climb the rails of the porch so when you approach you are met with a fragrant wall of roses as you enter our home. Starting with the hand rail on the right, I have Don Juan (red), New Dawn(pink) , White Cap (white) , New Year (salmon), Don Juan (red) and Kiss Me Kate(rose-pink) in between the gutter down spouts. Training the cains to go all the way to the top is my ultimate goal but that might not happen since that is about 12 feet and most of the roses only have a height of 7’. New Year has a cain in the front of the plant that is almost 6’ tall. I am in the process of pulling it to the column. Maybe then it will throw lateral cains for blooms.
I too am working on trying to train climbers up a post (square wood on my deck.) The roses are in containers. They are doing well, but I’m unsure how to secure them to the post. I’m a relative newbie when it comes to climbing roses, so I’m unsure if I should be pruning or not. My rose, Generous Gardner, bloomed early on, but not many blooms since. Maybe too hot here (Arkansas)? I also have America and New Dawn in the same boat.
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I have actually built a trellis from fishing line tying it to the existing rails and the drain pipes so the roses have something to attach and train the cains to the rails. Once the cain reached the rail I trained it to grow along the rail with zip ties. I know the lateral cains that grow from the main cain is the where the bush blooms. As the plant grows I use the fishing line to pull the cains closer to the white pillars. The beauty of the fishing line is once the roses are established heights, I can cut the fishing line and eventually I will not need it but until then it is invisible but effective as a temp trellis from the plant to the black porch rails.
I would also make sure it has a balanced fertilizer. Looks like plenty of nitrogen, but might need some other nutrients. And I agree it should be trained sideways to get more blooms. Have fun with it!
Is fishing line better than wire?
the fishing line is pretty much invisible, that makes the wife happy because it looks cleans
What gauge fishing line?
In this picture, the strong cane growing in the center looks like the rose you may have planted. Many thinner, long stems growing from the ground level look like they are suckers, Dr Huey, that I can identify with a degree of certainty and confidence. These will produce small clusters of deep red roses in the first flush of spring, and then they will not blooms any more for the rest of the year.(once bloomer). The Scion will be producing some other type of roses , but I can’t identify them just by the foliage. I suggest that you trace back the stems to their origin from the shank of the root stock, clearing mulch and gently digging back any soil until the bud union can be exposed and clearly seen. If these “climber” stems are arising from below the bud union, then they are definitely from the root stock, and must be eliminated by pulling them off the shank or cutting them flush with the shank. If allowed to continue to grow, they will soon take over, the Scion will die and it will become a bush of Dr. Huey. You will likely replace it at that point.
A closer look shows very clearly that in the picture, the fat stem in the center and everything to the left has one type of foliage. That is the scion, the rose for which you planted it. And I can see at least three suckers, two on the right side and the third one in the rear. The foliage one these stems all look exactly alike and they are distinctly different from all the rest, that are on the left side. These suckers must be carefully traced to their origin, and must be removed.
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