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truh North Kingstown, RI(Zone 6b) Nov 13, 2015

I ordered an Alfred de Dalmas from heirloomroses.com, potted in a one gallon container. It arrived with incredibly thin canes. I have never seen canes this thin except sometimes canes like this show up growing off the sides of regular sized canes on other roses and I prune them off. Normally when I get a bareroot rose, the canes are maybe ten times the diameter of these, no kidding.

If you look at this page on their site, http://www.heirloomroses.com/info/about/how-our-roses-arrive/ the plant looks like the one in the video still that the guy is holding on the far right. No, I didn't read this page before ordering...

Is this some form of rose I have never seen before, like one a month old or something? Should I even bother to plant it? The canes are green and seem alive.

Thanks.

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altagardener Calgary, AB(Zone 3b) Nov 14, 2015

Well, that's the thing with some places selling own-root roses - they are often not much more than rooted cuttings.
As long as it's alive... and if it wasn't advertized as being graded in the conventional way (e.g. Grade 1 having 3-4 heavy canes of at least 3/8 inch diameter, etc.)... there's no reason not to plant it. It will just take longer to develop.

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DaisyPlantLady Reno, NV(Zone 6b) Nov 14, 2015

My experience with own-root roses is that they never look like the grafted ones - spindly would be a good descriptive. But what they lack in size on arrival, they make up for in vigor. By the end of next season, they will be the same size as the Grade 1 grafted roses.

The question I would have is if you should plant it this time of year? I would winter it over in the 1 gallon pot and plant it out in the spring.

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truh North Kingstown, RI(Zone 6b) Nov 16, 2015

Thanks, folk. It was seventy here today, so I have no qualms about planting now. The zone assignments have to keep up with climate change.

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