How to Prune a Hybrid Tea Rose - Part 3 by The Gardening Tutor-Mary Frost

Learn how to prune your dormant hybrid tea rose with this up close and descriptive video! This is part three of three parts. At the end of the video you'll see some tips to help you remember what you've learned. Remember to come back to your rose at a later date to see what growth your pruning cuts encouraged!
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[@ATINKERER]

I've been growing roses for 50 years, but I learned a lot from this video. I'll review it next month before I prune for next season.

[@McclishChannel]

Please keep making these! You are a great teacher!!! I'm excited to understand what I'm doing and WHY I'm doing it in my garden!

[@TheGardeningTutor]

Thank you Angi! I almost missed your post, i did not get a notice of it. Posts like yours keep my spirits up. :)

[@McclishChannel]

Well, I hope you'll keep posting, because I've already gobbled up all of the ones out here and then run out to my yard to try out my knew "skills"! :)

[@bluewhale2600]

Hello, I have a question.. I've heard when pruning roses to count 5 leaves down? (Not 3) is this correct? Because at no point in your videos I heard that rule..so I'm not sure if that is correct? Can u please advise if that's an actual rule of thumb? Thank you. Love your videos! :)

[@TheGardeningTutor]

Hi Lluvia, sorry for such a late reply. Working alot! You are correct that in my videos I do not talk about the 5 leaflet "rule". For people who enjoy showing their roses, pruning down to the second leaflet with 5 leaves is key for encouraging tall, straight stems for the show. For most people pruning to an outward facing node on the stem you're cutting is what I show in the videos. Sometimes this means I cut farther down than the second 5 leaf leaflet. There are so many "rules" for roses that I like to show how you can get beautiful, well blooming roses with a good balance of stems.
In case you haven't read it already, you might enjoy my article about roses: www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-5004.html
Best -mary