How to Revive Droopy-Headed Roses

Hi I'm Stan DeFreitas, Mr Green Thumb. If you've got roses, occasionally you're going to get some kind of droopy headed roses. It just happens, it occurs. Normally the plant tends to grow out and the flower weight gets to be so heavy that it just tends to kind of hang over. We've got it on this new bud here, of course we have it on this kind of older spent flower here. Now you want to enjoy your flowers as long as you can. But when you do have one that's kind of just leaning over as this is, you probably want to come in and take your cutters, pick an area about an eighth of an inch above a bud and trim it right along about a 45 degree angle. Why above the bud? Well that's where it's going to break out and when it breaks out you'll have another spot and the plant will go off in that direction of the bud. So you can see we made our cut, we've got it separated from the plant. This of course you can cut off the foliage and you can bring it in as a cut flower for the home. Where we've cut off on this little spot right here is a good area where it's going to branch out. You can see the little bud and where that bud is is where it will branch from. Dead heading plants and bringing them back, getting droopy plants to come back makes roses produce more flowers so the more you trim, the better you're probably going to have flowering. For askmrgreenthumb.com, I'm Stan DeFreitas.