I planted this end of Nov. It is on a corner fence and the neighbour sprayed some round-up, which drifted across and the rose has only now started recovering.
I'm not sure how to train it. It has put up a new basal I think, the new one to the right of the grafted union below. There are also what I suppose are 2 laterals, growing straight up on the cane with the sunburn, which I've trained along to the right then back again.
The tallest lateral is 1. There are also more laterals on the cane growing on the left side of the fence, these are much shorter. Could I make the tall lateral into a horizontal? If I leave it, will it just have flowers on the tip of the lateral? I don't know much about training, but I have a 3 yr old ownroot Polka, and it's about 8ft tall and really likes to spread as well I'm training it around a pillar.
Last year it was a giant monster whipping its long canes everywhere until I tied up the longest ones and cut back hard on the canes that weren't long enough for me to pillar or just growing in the wrong direction.
If I understand you correctly, I think it will be hard to bend the thick canes and double back in a zig zag formation. You'd probably have to prune the basal where you want it to stop, then train the long lateral back in the other direction where the basal came from, I'm guessing.
