Rose specialists who can TEACH. Please explain simply and clearly how to identify a "sucker" on an ordinary

rose bush (NO NOT A CLIMBER). How far will it be from the base of the plant? Will the texture be different from the other stems, etc. I am a novice. Thank you for not using technical words which have me running to a plant dictionary. You're on . . .
Rose specialists who can TEACH. Please explain simply and clearly how to identify a "sucker" on an ordinary
remove a little soil from around the base of the rose, if the cane is attached below the graft then it is a sucker. You can ID the graft line by looking carefully for a spot that has what looks like a knot, or bulge at or just below ground level.
Reply:A lot of roses are grafted, a cutting from the rose type that you purchased is grafted onto rootstock from a standard cultivar. Suckers are canes that emerge from the rootstock below the bud union (that big bump at the base of the rosebush). These suckers come from the roots, rather than from the bud union. The suckers will be of the cultivar that the variety that you purchased was grafted onto and not the variety you bought. They should be removed by following such canes carefully down to their point of origin below ground before tearing them away from the root. Tearing them off is preferred over cutting them because more will sprout from the place where you cut the sucker off.



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Reply:A Rose sucker is a cane that comes up from below the bush from the roots. It usually does not grow far from the bush and will be a single and rather long cane. It tends to be lighter in color with smaller leaves. One way to identify it is to dig around it and if you see that it is attached to the bush below the graft union which looks like a large knot at the base of the plant then just pull the sucker cane from the plant because it will steal energy from your rose. I say pull it off because if you leave any of it, it will return. Just pull in a downward motion to remove it. If your rose is an own root rose and not a grafted rose then consider yourself lucky, because you just got another rose provided your sucker has roots. If your rose is a hybrid tea that has been grafted then you will end up with a stock rose, usually white, but that doesn't mean that they are unattractive or not worth replanting if there is space.
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