🌹 Rose Root Sucker - How to Identify and Remove a Rose Sucker from a grafted David Austin Rose 

Rootstock is just as pretty

Dang, I wondered why they would plant a dogrose. Now it's blooming red. It's because it's a grafted rose, and the rootstock is rosa canina, the graft is a red hybrid. The gardener cut it back real close instead of treating it for aphids. That actually helped the graft come back, because the dogrose was about to win. This video was really helpful.

Thank you for the video Kimberley! helpful as always. This is why i am hesitating to buy grafted DA roses. I don't want to deal with the suckers, but some of the DA roses i really like only come in grafted form. Don't know if i should buy them ...😓

WOW, no idea. New to this cause I just noticed them on my roses. I thought from research that suckers won't bloom. Can ya root the sucker? Thanks!!

Thank you 😊

I would try Epson salts once you bring the soil level up. It can't hurt and works great for basal shoots.

Thanks for the video! I was wondering why the color looked different in my tea rose. I am going to air layer it into its own root so I don’t have to worry about the stock root anymore.

Hello! I was just curious if the process helped save this rose? I currently have a sucker on my rose but it’s a yellow rose (rookie here) I also read sealing off the cut or tear with Elmer’s glue is a tip but wondering what you thought of sealing off the cut. Thanks!

Really helpful video thank you i will check my roses .Can i ask if the purple flowers are nepeta only mine are big and ugly

Thank you for the video! Is it critical to remove the sucker ASAP for a young plant (planted this winter)? I have some groundcover plants around the base of my rose and I don't want to mess them up just to check the cane. Can I let it grow out until it blooms?

So dumb question…I accidentally pulled a new basal cane off my Kiss Me Kate thinking it was a sucker (rookie mistake!) so I immediately took it inside and removed the bottom leaves and placed it in water bc it has 5 little red growths on top (like bud growth) … it’s been there about 24 hours now and no wilt. will it bloom or can I try to plant the cane at some point?

Why i don't like grafted roses, try to purchase heritage roses tho they are a bit pricey. But I did purchase a hybrid tea rose. Knowing all the issues I will be dealt. I liked the color and fragrance so bought it. As I took it out of its pot to plant in the landscape there were shoots coming off the root ball,with roots attached. Quess I should have cut them off. I buried it in the soil. I knew when I bought it,I have never have luck with grafted roses. Guess I got to keep an eye out on new shoots? Pull them off ? So what I have learned is only the grafted part is what you want, nothing else. Well that makes for a rose planr with probably a short lived life span? Can anyone help me out here. I so much want different varieties in my landscape. I started adding knock out roses, they have three different colors I know of. Red,pink an a new coral color. They are pretty, easy to grow, just like any rose they are heavy feeders an of course you need to water from below, but not splash water back up on the rose bush that may have fungus growing in the soil. I don't mulch my roses for this reason. I keep out grass, rake up any leaves or debris under them. I keep the soil loose by occasionally digging around them. That helps a lot with heritage roses to push up new canes. All my roses get once a week liquid fertilizer I hook to my hose. They get once a month a good helping of bio tone. I use captain Jack's three in one for mildew and pest control. I do this early in Spring, an again if I spot any insects. July is a bad time for Japanese Beatles. I have to spray everything. They destroy anything they land on. I was young and didn't know . We had lived in our home about three years I had by then a well established landscape,tho I worked and had a family. I planted mostly flowering trees, shrubs. fruit trees, a lot of maples. I didn't have much time for annuals tho I did have pots on my front porch and patio for color. One year Japanese Beatles came thru and destroyed a lot of my fruit trees, and weeping cherry. I was heart broken. So I keep my eyes open, and spray everything. You will know if they are just arriving. You will see them.

Why didn't you saw it off? Does it make a difference if you pull it off by hand?

You manhandled Dr. Huey--just what he deserved! I hope he doesn't come back for Darcy! And, I didn't even know root stock suckers were a thing I needed to look out for. Poor Darcy. Get those rootstock suckers out of here!