Climber has long stems before bloom

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  1. jtj321

    jtj321 Apprentice Gardener

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    Hi
    This drives me mad year on year, i have a climber on a warm wall, carefully trained and pruned, but the flowering spurs off the trained horizontals grow really long before producing a bloom giving a spindly appearance. What am I doing wrong please
     
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    Victoria Lover of Exotic Flora

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    Hi and welcome to GC. Where are you located? What type plant is it? Can you put a picture up please?
     
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      I assume it’s a rose from how you are describing the growth, do you know which one it is? Also when are you pruning it? If doing it in the Autumn/winter maybe you need to cut the flowering spurs back harder or a second time in early Spring. It will delay flowering but hopefully on shorter stems.
       
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      Hi thanks for replying..
      This year i cut the spurs back ub late winter /early spring before any growth showed.
      Next year I'll try doing a second pruning when the spurs start to shoot upwards.
       
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      Is it a rose?
       
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