How To Make A Rose Bud Big
by Abhishek
(Ranchi,Jharkhand,India)
Hello,
QUESTION: I want to make a rose bud big and have good texture.
ANSWER: Hi! The hybrid tea roses, and grandiflora roses have the largest rose flowers, up to 6 inches across.
Roses that have not had ample water, or nutrients, tend to produce smaller rose blooms, so keeping your roses well-watered and fertilized is very important.
Also extreme heat can cause roses to produce smaller flowers, if they produce them at all.
A technique called Disbudding maximizes the size of a rose flower.
This technique for producing large high quality rose blooms, is used by exhibitors.
To produce a single, large beautiful rose bloom. remove all rose buds except the terminal bud at the stem's tip.
This allows all the stem's energy to go toward that one bud.
Best Regards,
Annelie