Two of the best people to get advice from. Both of you speak so well to roses and in everyday language. I love how you keep it simple and seem to grow roses because you simply love roses. It reflects what most of us feel.

You both care about precious roses. Roses share and shower people with beauty. My elder neighbors drive by my front yard and slowly drive by. I think they see beauty. Roses. You two share beauty to others. You have a talent. We appreciate you.

Excellent topics on growing roses. I struggled to find solutions suitable for my condition, years of getting conflicting information is very frustrating. You two are my go to rose gurus who always have decent thoughts and knowledge to help me grow better roses.Thank you, Jason and Kim.🤩🙌

Yay🎉🎉🎉🎉 2 of my favorite smarties💐❤️💐

My 2 favorite rose celebrities! 🤩💥💫

I loved this video, as I enjoy and learn from all your videos. Thank you.

I live in Tucson, Az and use cedar mulch -about 8” thick! Today it’s 107 degrees and they look stunning. Us in the desert need to keep roots cooler! 2. Wow. I always cut any plant at a 45. I seal with glue or cinnamon depending on the houseplant, bush, etc 3. Heat stressed plants respond well to B1.

Gardening is like cooking. If you try to implement all the ideas flying around about the preparation of food, and growing plants, you'd have nervous breakdowns in your kitchen and garden. Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I use a lot of mulch, and winterize my roses with chicken wire cages filled with leaves. I won't remove it until late in April, even the first week in May, if the weather is bad. People here tend to prune a lot in fall, whereas I only prune lightly. This way I have lots of good canes to start with in spring. Thanks so much for teaming up with Kimberly to address these ideas.

Thanks both of you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

I use alfalfa pellets in early spring and all my plants like it. Being doing this for years! Keep it simple! Less is more.

During the winter I don‘t soak bare roots prior to planting, because the water in the roots can expand after planting if it gets freezing cold during the night. This can damage the roots. Except one, all of the roses I have planted without soaking have survived and are as strong and healthy as the ones that were soaked. In warmer periods I usually soak bare rooted roses for about 6-8 hours or over night, but if I „forget“ them in their bath and leave them there for another day it doesn’t hurt them. I never let them soak for a week or two though 😅 I love Kordes roses too, by the way 😊 Greetings from Germany!

I was just about to go outside and pot up a bare root Angel Face rose I got on clearance for $5. Perfect timing!

Thanks for addressing the angle and innie or outtie! I just heard about this recently and there is no way I am going to do that!!

Muchas gracias valiosa información me encanta sus temas muy bien explicados

Thanks Jason, as always a lot of great information. Now if I can just remember everything. I have big problems growing roses BUT I’m not giving up.❄️💚🙃

I've I've boughten bare-root roses from Home Depot, and from Lowe's, and I had never soaked them I did not know that we were supposed to soak them I will just take them out of the packaging dig a hole , I'll fill the hole with water and then fill it up with dirt and they have grown fine.

In my opinion soil testing is the key that unlocks the mystery of whether or not you need to add ANYTHING to your soil. ❄️💚🙃

This was an amazing discussion and I’ve never grown a rose. These are questions I have or would have had once I get one. Please do more of these, or even just conversations with other growers. So informative and interesting.

I didn't mulch my roses for the first 6 years of growing them, and they either died or the grafts died during winter, and I had to keep replacing them, soon as I mulched them, we had the coldest winter in a long time and they all survived. So through trial and error I'd have to say mulch helped out alot.

ALSO, This was great and I appreciate the longer format.

"I start out default skeptical" You just became my favourite KZfaq gardener. :) Folks need to remember that correlation does not equal causation. For soaking bare root roses, I could see the need varying depending on your climate. If I'm planting in the Lower Mainland of BC (near where Jason gardens, if I plant now, it's likely going to rain 4 of the next 7 days and continue in that pattern until July, so the rose isn't going to lack moisture. For pruning, Georgie on Common Farm says that because she has so many roses, she sometimes uses hedge trimmers!!

This was WONDERFUL! I just looked up my extension office to get a soil test. I’m newly obsessed with roses and this was extremely helpful.

This is the best Q and A on Roses I've heard. Thanks Jason and Kimberley.

Good conversation. Ill have to research some of the diseases you spoke about, & view pics of them, so I'll know them when I see them. Thank for your time

I really appreciate these videos, I always wonder about all these miracle methods.

Very practical informations thank you

Great list! The only things I add is some fertilizer and some soil mycorrhizae, beneficial soil bacteria, and sometimes root stimulants. As for mulch, I heard it was because of their propensity to attract mold, which can be taken care of with a zinc oxide misting spray.

You guys should get together in a year and check your advice to each other. Really good synergy. Thanks

Nice, really informative Jason 👍

Muchísimas gracias a los 2 por lo instructivo de este video y por compartir con nosotros sus experiencias y conocimientos. En mi caso, sólo quiero tener hermosos rosales en mi jardín. Vivo en América del Sur, La Plata, Argentina 🇦🇷 y la información de este video me es muy útil. Saludos cordiales!

Kimberly and Jason, This is a great conversation. The most important bit of information is... Know your area! Whether you have lived there for years or are new to the area, it is vital to know the soil composition, climate conditions, and general overall climate your plants are going to live in. These three elements will determine the life cycle of pests, biological beneficials, plant growing patterns and behavior, water, nutrition, and every other thing that will determine what you need for success. The depth of planting will be determined mainly by the time of year and region when planting. If you are early in the safe planting season you will want to typically match the depth the plant was originally at. However, you both mentioned and I agree as well that being able to observe new plants growing habits will greatly improve their overall success. I prefer to plant all new roses about a fingers thickness below the highest roots, allowing the rest of the plant to be above ground until the new growth begins to appear and then I can make whatever adjustments after that. For my growing area, I will never be concerned with sub-zero temperatures, so crown protection and severe weather precautions are not a part of my growing concerns; however, high winds, driving rain, and high mountain misty air, are. This region is a new growing experience for me, so there is a great deal of observation and planning as I see things develop and watch for evidence of things I am concerned might develop. Keeping garden tools clean is just a healthy practice that should be done all the time. If I were a chef or a surgeon I'm pretty sure everyone would expect me to keep my hands and tools clean and the garden is really no different.😉 Soil testing is a necessary part of knowing just how healthy your growing environment is. We have physical examinations every few years to make sure we maintain a healthy body and the same applies to our growing spaces. We often try to avoid it, but that examination puts us at ease once it's done and if something is found it is treated right away. I am considered barbaric by rose enthusiasts because I actually do very little for roses unless they tell me they need something. As long as the soil is healthy and balanced and they have the water they need, they are pretty much on their own. I do add a little fresh potting soil around them every other year as a fortifier, but they really don't need a lot of attention. My climate is quite mild, so as the roses grow I will need to prune more often depending on what type of roses they are and just how big I want them to be, but that is about it. One thing about pruning, the canes don't grow straight, so even if you cut them straight they will always be angled anyway, just sayin.😜😁 As a grower and coffee producer, here is a thought about soaking root plants. When I process coffee, the freshly pulped beans are soaked for about 12-14 hours or basically overnight to ferment and then they are rinsed and spread out to dry. If it only takes 12-14 hours to ferment those coffee beans how long do you suppose it will take to start fermenting the roots of a plant? I personally soak roots for as little as necessary just to allow moisture saturation, but not more than 4 hours. A 2x4 of lumber will be fully wet all the way through if soaked overnight when it's completely dried out. Another little thought.🤔 Wonderful information.👌 Thank you both.🤙

There is an old book I have called "Hunger Signs in Crops" which shows how plants and leaves appear when deficient in a particular nutrient. I highly recommend it!

I have planted bare root roses and I never soaked them in the water and some of it I can’t plant right away because of busy schedule so after I received it I left it in its packaging in my garage for 4 days and then I planted it and now I after 3 months it’s blooming really good and so are my other roses I planted years ago with no soaking with water.

Great lesson.

I soaked my bareroot roses for 3 hours this year and they are all doing fine so far! (Leafing out nicely)

re: soaking bare roots in water and having them fail. I have tried rooting stems (not roses) in water. They grow roots and live on water. A friend advised that a means of "teaching" them to live in soil is to add a tsp. of soil to the water daily (more obviously if a large bucket), and those roots "learn" to take up nutrients from the soil which eventually becomes like mud. Then transplant them into soil.... Makes sense and it worked for me, however I don't usually let the roots develop so far now before putting them into soil.. and I do more propagations from cuttings. Thanks Jason for all that you do!

Mulch tends to keep the roses from freezing at the ball or crown in the PNW

Thanks for your good advice. Many times.. watching youtube and thinking.. is it fake.. or.. thinking about everyone who goes on, and loses their roses... I am so grateful that I have you here on youtube, and I follow your good advice. I have tried to correct my friends on facebook when they ask about how to proceed with their roses. And it is not always popular, then they write that you should dig them up and throw them away and buy a new one.. Thanks to you, I am grateful for my roses. They have survived most of it. A very fruitful discussion. Thanks from Sweden.

Thanks!

I'm so happy 😊 that your numbers are growing by leaps and bounds! Congratulations! I live in the Okanagan zone 5.

Fantastic video.

I always enjoy your collabs, I see you guys did this last year. Really appreciate the listenable content and I can't imagine anyone listening to the two of you and not smiling the whole time. Really powerful mood booster at the perfect time of year for that. Thanks again Jason, my garden-farming mentor.

I never cut my rose stems at a 45 degree angle they always did well but one day years ago I seen on TV that you were supposed to I really haven't seen a difference. When pruning I had never sealed the stems. I lost a rose it was a Victorian it was 40 years old do to 21 days of rain it died. Professionally I'm a veggie and fruit grower so roses are not my expertise I have learnt so much from your channel I now do lots of grafting and rooting of roses I really enjoy it. The problem I have with my roses is it looks like they get powdery mildew

My hybrid tea roses were planted slightly above the ground and it got frost bites over the winter. So last year I had to dig it up and plant it couple inches below the soil and it overwintered much better. I think its a more vulnerable kind.

29:40 As a rookie gardener I gave compost tea (green x brown, no earthworms) to my okra and chayote. They developed gigantic and beautiful leaves but no flower ... thus no okras, no chayotes. Although some pests loved it. They just devoured the okra's leaves.

I HAVE to be friends with these people. It was a convo I felt part of

Hi Jason @ Fraser Valley Rose Farm Thank You So Much for the Beautiful Very interesting Video @ Fraser Valley Rose Farm 👍👍🌹🌹❤️❤️

Sure like your scientific approach to things. So many people have an anecdotal approach to methods not supported by evidence. Hold your tongue this way and you will hit a home run.

If you are curious about validity of Epsom salt, look up Gardening in Canada’s video, she’s a soil scientist and reviewed studies about the use of epson salts for plants in general.

I have inherited a rose bush had to cut it to try to control it a little now I do not get blooms. So I will mulch and feed it real good this year.

I’ve been using Superthrive for many years for roses and other new plantings. I have never had transplant shock when I’ve used it. And, when I’ve skipped it, I have sometimes had problems. Still anecdotal, I realize, but this has been my experience.

Planted a ton of roses - if I can plant pretty as soon as box arrives - I don't soak it - I plant it and then water heavily at time of planting - then every 3-4 days for a while

Bleach, a tiny bit in my big jug of tepid water when I am forcing blossoms & leaves in winter for church vases or gifts from all of my bushes which can take a good trim anytime & is not even noticeable in my gardens. Had been taught that the bleach creates some 'heat' that activates Spring like conditions within the hardwood branches. Been watching IV Organic vedios re. grafting techniques & a new kind of prune sealer is promoted. Maybe you want to check that out to consider this topic again. I'd be interested in your uptake at some point then.

Re: mulching. The issue is that the first year or two of "not mulching" you'll get crazy weeds. After that it sort of dies down a bit (pun intended?). In my experience anyway.

i agree that ornamentals dont need as much fertilizer and can still put on a good show, soil conditions permitting. it's a different ballgame when it comes to edible crops, which will rarely produce good sized veggies in good time, unless well fed. we made them this way. with regards to bananas and potassium, a well known chemistry youtuber did a good job extracting a tablespoon of potassium from something like 12 kilos of whole bananas, as most of the potassium is actually in the flesh. so definitely time not well spent to put banana peel around plants.

Guilty of leaving a DA rose in a pail of water for over a month, it got buried in behind some things in my garage and I found it and it was fine, it was growing leaves too!!! LOL It is doing fine in ground, I just gave it water and it is pushing new growth and buds.

Great to see you again! You look fantastic! I heard that planting with oatmeal will reduce transplant shock. I think I tried it once with no real results 😊 I learned to clean my tools between plants. I have heard people say to clean between each cut. I think that’s extreme unless pruning a known problem. But I will still try to keep from spreading problems as much as possible.

I buy only potted roses, plant with compost, mulch and bury the rose by 2 inches in my zone 5b. I don't think the cutting angle makes a difference as long as you cut to an outward facing bud. I do not use any sealers. My roses are healthy and survives our cold winters.

To my knowledge borers that attack crowns of plants, only do so to unhealthy stressed plants. I have seen this on my forsythia for example. This is different than rose borers. I have never found my roses to have crown damage, but many many times, have found borer damage to canes. Left long enough, they will eventually make it to the crown however. Since discovering this, I have become very careful to prune during cold weather our to use pruning sealer when cutting in warm weather.

Best to give them the best drink of life .Once planted never again such a good drink. One day plant then before dark

So I'm so excited about my 1 rose cultivation it's about 2.5 cm or 1" Can a steam do this and not make Roots Thanks again for all your help From both of you

I never soak my bareroot roses after they had been shipped to me over a period of a week. Never had any problems with them. Just planted them in in moist soil and they do great.

Thanks for another great video! You really have to cut at a 45 degree angle ... if you are using a pruning knife, like people did until the end of the 19th century (try to make a straight cut with a knife!). New types of pruners came along, but the 45 degree advice kept being repeated, and still is. With my modern pruners I just cut whichever way I approach the stems. Making the smallest wound possible makes sense, but slows you down. Sealing the cut? I have never seen problems with my unsealed cuts. So, I am not going to fix it. This year some canes of some of my hybrid teas died back to just a few centimeters above the ground. Happily I planted the crown below ground level! Soaking? I soak the plant hole and water the rose afterwards. If that is not enough soaking ...? Never seen any problems with my newly planted roses. I once dug up a 'The Fairy' though, and put it in a bucket of water, put it somewhere and forgot about it. Apparently it rained enough to keep some water in the bucket and nine months later I stumbled over it and decided to put it in the ground. It's doing great!

I soak the bare rooted for couple of hours in fungicide, humic acid and rooting harmone (cutting aid) mild solution then go ahead and plant

🌹Excellent topic and collaboration!! Can't wait for Part 2. Note on the side... your 2 links on NPK do not work.🌹

I buy from Heirloom Roses, which is only 30 minutes from me. When they arrive bare root they are so fresh. I simply soak overnight in a bucket and in the ground they go. I use compost each season and mulch on top of that. I have very little problems with black spot because my formal rose garden has great airflow. Never tried epsom salts and compost tea seems like. waste of time when raining and watering compost is the same thing. I have over 100 roses so I have to go with whatever is fastest. Never worried about pruning angle or sealer. My roses have to perform or they go. It is like a game of survivor here. If a rose underperforms, I shovel prune with no guilt. 😂

To soak or not to soak. Don’t forget to take into account the two of you are in very different climates. Just like watering after planting. On the west coast it may not be necessaryf if your ground is already saturated from our heavy fall to spring rains.

Thanks for the interesting interview. I think that the roots disturb the breath from excess water and the roots do not like light. I wash the roots of the rose and plant it in the ground, water it, and give the rose shade for 2 weeks. shade for a new plant is very important, the sun dries the plant. (I plant a rose in the ground and give trichoderma and mycorrhiza)

Another great session. I lost over ten roses last winter for not mulching and for placing the bud union above the soil level in my zone 5 garden. Would mulching with compose encourage more weeds to grow as opposed to wood chips?

David Austin say to cover the crown - but the advice has changed over the decades. It says to soak bare roots for one to two hours and that is what I go with. - - - We should always be going with scientific method - which is always about referring to objective evidence - not anecdote. Let's study and see what the studies stay. - - - RRD can stand for "rose replant disease' (at least in the UK). Which is different from rose rosette disease and rose mosaic.

Re: Compost teas. The problem is that it can mean anything from water steeped with wormcasting to a living inoculant with a 24hr expiry and details of its microflora in ppm. Both may have value, but both are basically called "compost teas" even though they work on different timelines and a different mechanism. I am in favour of both because both cost money and take effort. It seems if something is pricey, people will pay more attention. A bit cynical, maybe but all good if it works .

I don't soak my roses. I didn't even know people did that. I usually plant it and keep it well watered until it starts looking alive again.

Okay I have two questions that weren't exactly addressed in this video. Concerning prune sealing: what about if you remove a sucker from the rootstock on a rose (below the graft) - I was told I should prune seal that to prevent anything in the soil (disease or insect) from going into the new wound that's in contact with the soil. Do I not need to do that? Second, one of the new roses I got as a bareroot had instructions that said to plant the graft 3 - 4" below the soil. I have never buried a crown below the surface, but I thought okay maybe this rose is more sensitive so I put it about 2 inches below the soil line (I did not feel comfortable going deeper tbh.) Is this going to cause harm? I didn't see you really mention any cons to that. I know a gardener came to my house a year or two ago saying that if I have any mulch against or over the crown of any bushes it would cause them to die. Wondering if I should I dig it up and lift it? And then if I should do that, do I wait until spring to do that to not re-disturb it again after just planting it? Not sure what to do.

Hearing that makes it hurt.

Very good video. I thought the Epton salt was not a good idea. I tried it once and almost killed my roses. What time of year do you add the alfalfa, Jason? I know you didn't talk about this. I tried it one year.

Hi Jason, how about "do not plant roses in the previous rose's hole". Is this true? Thanks

Thanks for an interesting talk. This isn't about planting, but i wonder if you are plagued by the terrible Chili Thrips. We are continally trying to get on top of them, they absolutely wreck the whole rose bushes. Nothing seems to work, so I'm hoping you have have an idea on how to get rid of them. Thanks again, Lorraine from Perth West Australia.

As a retired commercial rose grower my thoughts are when you mulch and cover the crown there is the risk that the rose bush will go on to its own roots. We always have the crown above an mulch so that this doesn’t happen, this is why the roses are graphed on hardy root stock but once the rose starts putting out it own root (the roots above the graft) the life of the bush is greatly reduced. It’s ok to mulch them up during the dormant stage but not during the growth stage.

I would also love to know your opinion of using micorrhiza when planting new roses. I haven't seen any difference, but it seems to be all the rage right now.

Hi Jason, I also live in greater Vancouver (N. Delta) and have some old HT roses along the back of our house. I am very much into composting, vermicomposting etc. which I try to add onto my rose beds every year. But I would very much like to get a soil test done to better understand the "health" of the soil around the roses. Do you have any recommendations as to where I can go to have a budget-friendly test done? Also wondering if HT roses have a limited lifespan? We have lived here for 20+ yrs. and my roses don't seem to put out vigorous new canes from the crown anymore. Is there a method that might stimulate the roses to do that, such as mulching or placing compost higher up on the crowns. maybe my roses just don't get enough full sun. The bed faces SE so in mid summer the house shades the plants from 2 to 3 o'clock onwards. Have watched many of you videos........keep up the great work. Hope 2024 is a great year for you. thanks, Harry

Several 'how to' videos on the David Austin channel says to soak bare roots: 'for at least a half hour'. I don't understand the long soak recommendations for most bare root roses - (unless you're getting late season body bag roses that have sat on retail shelves for weeks/months).

Hi Jason , really off topic but I was wondering what your input would be regarding soil amendments. The Land and Sea is so expensive, wouldn’t fish emulsion work in the same way? Really enjoy your info in your videos.

Hi how do you suggest I revive my 20+year old climbing rose , I always trim it down every fall, but the flowers are getting weaker and it’s prone to leaf hoppers , any help would be useful thank you

Is a pruning sealer the reason why nursery roses have that wax on the cane ends? Or is that for something else?

I also wonder about how often I've read that cuttings in water have "water roots" and they are not the same as soil roots. This is meant to explain why something that has rooted well in water does not then transplant well into soil. IS this an actual fact about roots? If it is, that might explain why soaking roses for 2 weeks in water and having them start growing might be the same thing as rooting in water versus soil for cuttings. I will say that some things I rooted in water recently acted as if the root that grew in water was unrelated to roots in soil! Black eyed susan vines as the prime example, would only root at the very bottom of the cutting. Each made one long root but when put into pots they just died. When I tipped the dead leafless stems out of the pot, that lone bottom root would still be looking just fine....but would instantly fall off the now dead remains of the stem.

when I plant bare root roses, I plant them immediately, without watering, because I soak the rose after planting, anyway, so it basically sits in mud.

What is your thought on systemic rose food?

Silly me, i love GALL on things. I collect them.

The angle cut never made sense to me. I'm pretty sure the sun and wind will dry out the open cut. Besides, I'm already trying not to get poke by the thorns. Buy a hybrid. My vine's a tree and it still blooms. Don't have issues with bugs, and in Hawaii, that's rare. I'll admit, I neglect this rose. I think it's an introvert. It don't like the attention and it's fine. Fertilizer? I don't remember the last time I gave it. My take on this video, it's knowing your climate, soil and type of rose. Sad to say, I don't know the name of my hybrid rose.

Omg all of mine are above 😮 should I reburt them? Like dig them 😢 zone 8b

It’s funny, these myths is all around the place, I’ve heard them in Sweden also. But I have another question that I haven’t been able to figure it out. It’s about US zones and how I could apply it in my climate. I have really mild winters. Often around 0 Celsius with occasional dips some nights down to -8 to -10 degrees Celsius. Sometimes snow for a couple of days but mostly rain. I live on an island (the island of limestone and roses) so we have cold springs and warm long falls, last frost date April 15, first frost date November 1. By just looking at that, great, I can plant almost everything! But summers are “mild” too, about 22 to 28 degrees Celsius, with occasional periods of 30 to 33 degrees Celsius. So heat living plants doesn’t thrive because of that. What US zone should you set on my climate?

Wanted to send you a picture of a rose i found growing on the side of the road in Colombia. Maybe you are on Facebook...

All I can say Jason, is that I'm glad I dont live in the US or Canada, with all the bugs you talk about. Here in Oz we don't have them and we can be very thankful for all the work our Govt through Customs, does to protect our gardening environment.

The strangest myth that I have recently heard is that roses "like meat" so if one finds a dead bird, one should bury it near a rose (?????). Perhaps the rose is going to benefit from such a burial after the body has decomposed completely. What do you think, Mr Fraser?

I spent about £1000 on David Austin roses, and followed their advice to plant the crown below the surface. I live in the cold North of England, with clay soil. Almost all of them rotted away. There were a few I planted at or slightly above soil level, and these have grown vigorously and are still alive. I will never buy their roses again for their poor advice. Such a lot of money thrown away. I suggest plant them AT soil level, maybe slightly above if you intend to mulch if you live in areas with cold or wet winters.

Who pulls the mulch away from the roses in the forests

Korde roses Kord pronounced not Kord des

This is youtube not television so over ten minutes is a waste of your time plus your loosing revenue when this is a 3 video content. Keep in mind we live in a fastfood world and we consume in micro bites all day long as convenient to our schedule. NOT hating but hoping too help you be a better youtuber with faster better shorter videos more often.