Which variety name is your rose?

I had a rose which had been a one cane wonder for 10+ years. It is a seedling of a hybrid gigantea called Belle Portugaise, and it is called 'Susan Louise'. Unlike its parent, SL is a repeat bloomer, and is classed as a hybrid tea. What made it suddenly put out 3 new canes (from 1 , 3, and 5 inches up the cane from the bottom) was more light, as near as I can tell. The only thing which changed re its circumstances was that we took out a 40 ft tall eugenia tree which was shading that part of the garden much of the time (an ever green, so it never lost its leaves).

Jackie

You could go bold and try the technique Chris advocated (for new roses) in the famous Madame Anisette discussion from a few years back.

Rifis, do you remember the title of that thread? I'm going to look for "Mme Anisette"...

Couldn't find anything...

Which rose it is makes a difference. My Souv de Mme Leonie Viennot second plant is effectively a one cane wonder, but it is huge. It has a different body habitus than any other of my roses. I have another one too with lanky arms but at least more than one cane.

I was mistaken.

It was a Plum Perfect discussion I was thinking of - the one with a photo hint of her palatial grounds

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/4398632/kordes-plum-perfect-growth-habit#n=56

Though she also had some good advice in the MA discussion I referred to.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/4391431/any-updates-on-madame-anisette#n=388

Thats funny because of my one cane wonders is a Plum Perfect. Many of the wonders are baby plants either own root or grafted. The one cane is long then the leaves are at the tip top. Mainly OGRs and floribundas. Most in one gallon size containers. Should i cut them lower, below the ”leaf line” or just hope they one day make more branches?

I have a Vicktoria growing from one cane and im wondering if i should cut her up and try to root her, if by chance a new cane will sprout from the soil.

How do you turn a cutting from a stick to a well branched out plant?

Time and good care will eventually result in a bush.

The solution could be to pot it up, and move it to a microclimate that is good for growing roses and then move it back to your rose bed.

When I have rose bushes I like that are doing poorly, I pot them up, and bring them to my "rose infirmary" behind my office building where I have a microclimate favorable to growing roses. It has a southerly exposure with buildings to the east and west that block much of the wind. Roses grow incredibly well here.

I potted up "Stretch Johnson" this year, which has grown poorly for about 8-years, whereas it had previously been one of my favorites. Somehow a large basal cane broke off it 7-8 years ago, and I think I recall damaging it with a shovel then, too. About 4-years ago I accidentally stepped on it, and thought I killed it. But it continued to grow each year to a height of 6".

This spring I potted it up on May 9, 2023, and took it to the rose infirmary. I watered it almost daily in the pot. I replanted Stretch Johnson in my rose bed in mid to late July. Here is the progress shown with Stretch Johnson, and sorry I don't have a full bush shot now, but it is now 18" and branching nicely, that's triple the height it has been the past 3-years:

May 9, 2023:

June 16, 2023:

August 22, 2023:

This is the 2nd rose I gave this treatment to, and both recovered very well.

Thanks for the advice, Mark - I like the idea of having a rose infirmary. However, in my garden once a rose has been growing well for 8 years, it would be too large for me to "pot it up". Except for a couple of small bushes, most of my roses get very large after about 4 years. Oh, well.

Jackie