Dear all This is a Rugosa Rose, and it suckers alot. I suspect it is not a graft, therefore the suckers should be as good as the original stems. Am I right? Thanks Souren
I wouldn't think it was a grafted (budded) plant, the original was probably a sucker itself or poss a hardwood cutting
Rugosas are grafted rather often. Grafting onto another rugosa wouldn't solve the suckering problem, of course.
Yes, if it was not grafted on to another suckering rootstock, the new plants produced from the suckers should be the same as the parent plant. Or, you can turn that around and say that if the suckers turn out to have the same foliage, stems, thorns and flowers as their parent plant, then the suckers originated from the ornamental rose plant, not from grafted rootstocks.
