I have a mini rose bush that has not bloomed for 2 years. When and how is the best way to transplant it?

Answer 1

It is always best to transplant a rose during dormancy which is anytime between the first freeze of Autumn and last freeze of Winter.
Transplanting a rose
1) wait until evening when temps are cooler.
2) cut the rose back to about 2 or 3 feet.
3) prepare the new home by digging a hole 2ftx2ft and water the hole. Fill the hole with water and let it drain at least twice.
4) save the top 2/3 of soil that you just dug up and set aside. Discard the bottom 1/3.
5) amend the soil you saved with peat, bone meal, and garden compost.
6) in the bottom of the hold add a layer of manure 2-3 inches thick and then layers some of the amended soil on top of the manure. Do NOT set the roots directly on the manure.
7) use a shovel to cut around the rose bush about 18inches from the trunk all the way around.
8) Moving aroun the rose bush again, reinsert the shovel and pull down on the handle. Doing this all the way around will loosen the soil and begin to separate any long roots. Keep doing this until the rose can be easily removed (Don't worry too much if you break a root because roses are tougher than they look)
9) Remove the rose. At this point it is best to keep as much of the origional soil around the roots as possible since it is summer. If you move it in the fall you can shake the soil away and trim any damaged or dying roots.
10) set rose in hole making sure the soil on the root ball is a little above the level of the new hole. You want the rose to be on a small mound.
11) fill in the hole half way with the ammended soil and water. Once the water has run through then finish filling in the hole with the soil and water throughly.

Now that you have transplanted your rose then make sure you give it water everyday for the next 2 weeks. Be sure you water it at the base and early in the morning because roses don't like to get wet. After the two weeks then you can cut back the watering to once a week.

If you wait until dormancy then you'll only have to water it the one time.

Good Luck

Answer 2

Usually roses are dormant in winter. that would be a good time to transplant. They do need to be fed to bloom and need about 7 hours of direct sun a day

Answer 3

are lyou sure it is a mini? if you pruned it past the graft you won't get any roses. after two years you should of seen at least one flower, is it getting at least 6 hours of sunlight? are you feeding it? did it die back to the graft in winter?

I remember when I pruned my climbing rose I pruned to far and killed the graft, for three years I was hoping for flowers but nope. another one died from the cold at the graft, the base plant however produced flowers that were slightly different but still red.

if you transplant it wait until early fall, or in spring, you want to prune it some, but don't butcher it, and get as much of the root ball as possible, and have the other hole dug already and transplant. but remember early fall if you prune to late or to early in spring you stimulate new growth a no no if too close to winter or if winter is not truly over yet..

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Answer 4

via fact that they're going dormant, the main subject is that there is not any longer time to make sure new roots earlier the freeze. you may desire to dig a bigger than standard root ball allowance and placed them in a bigger field for transport - attempt to no longer disturb the muse ball. additionally decrease decrease back the canes by a million/third or extra, you do no longer prefer the desiccation from the canes to stress the plant any further than the relocation. yet you do stand a stable probability of achievement - water them earlier you raise them and attempt to go them in the 40-degree climate relatively of the 30 degree climate if achieveable. wrap the rootball nicely to maintain it moist and steer away from air drying for the duration of the stress. Get it in the floor on the hot region at present.

Answer 5

all good answers but do you really need to move it is it not getting enough sun??? never never let the roots dry out have the new hole dug put it in its new home right after its dug or wrap the roots in wet towels