Roses question - deadheading

[FloofCloud]

Hi
When you have a sprig of roses and they all need dead heading do you just cut the whole lot off in one fell swoop or do you delicately take each one off? I'm trying to get good crops of roses and not sure for the second round of flowering
Thanks

If they’ve all gone a bit shabby then cut them all off. Just look down the stem and cut just above a leaf, rather than leaving a stub of stem. That’s because that stub of stem tends to die and go brown. Sometimes it’s just one or two flowers in a cluster which have ‘gone over’ in which case I would just snip those ones off and leave the rest.

I'm not an expert but when I looked this up, it said if the whole group of roses have gone over then cut back to above the first stem with 5 leaves on.

Cut the whole flowering head off to just above the next group of 5 leaflets (not the first 3 leaflets). This will give good chance of new flowering shoots.

Thank you, got loads of dead flowers so will do as you say - thank you ☺️

I need to learn all the correct terms you have used @TheUsualChaos !

😆 I was completely clueless with roses up until fairly recently. Third year on and now finally feel like I've got the hang of them. Mine are covered with their next lot of buds about to go 😁

@Brunonono

Explains, using the terminology to make it easier to understand

This!

Often, on a cluster head, you’ll get a bloom or two that are ready to go and another couple that are only just budding. When this happens, just snip the dead blooms off. Once the whole cluster has gone, cut off at the stem just before the first leaf with five leaflets. This can often feel as though you’re being quite drastic as it can seem like you’re cutting quite far down the stem, but don’t panic, it’s fine!

For stems with just a single bloom, same rule applies - cut just above first leaf with five leaflets.

Not usually a problem with shrub roses, but if you have any standards (tree roses) then keep a constant eye out for suckers. These are new stems that can form from either the base or part-way up the trunk. Make sure you cut these off as soon as you can - they sap energy from the tree.