Mister Lincoln
SophiaTheReader .
15 days ago
So i had bought a mister Lincoln from heirloom last year. its been pretty healthy in 7b maryland( strange for a HT?) BUT im not sure if its actually mister lincoln… the roses FRY in the sun. Like it blooms in a day and is done in a day. its getting sun from about 12-5. its also magenta?? And curly???? My MIL grows it in California and it looks so different. i Thought maybe it was just a year one thing… but this year the blooms look the same. I'll post the pic of the first bloom. My ebb tide is darker (so temps are cool enough to warrant a deep color not magenta) what do yall think? The scent is also medium to me, smelling like lemony rose ish.
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Comments (26)I bought 5 roses in those pots this year. Couldn't pass up the price, $7 each plus my 10% discount (VA). I planted them in 7 1/2 gal nursery pots using a good (jungle growth) potting soil. They are just starting to break dormancy. I got, Peace, Perfume Delight, Olympiad, Granada and Anastasia. If they look good by mid spring I'll be putting them into a small garden I'm planting at our local News Paper office. I have 3 OGR's and 2 mini's that I rooted last year that are also going into that garden. Hey, if these peat pots work out, I may have struck gold. The President of North Georgia Technical College (where I work part time) loves roses but she doesn't have time for her own personal garden. She has always dreamed of a small cutting garden. Maybe 10 to 12 roses. I'll pick her brains and see what colors she likes this spring and summer. I'll get together with the Horticulture Department and see if we can surprise her with her special garden next spring....See MoreMister Lincoln & stuff
Comments (63)Hi Jim: I'm sorry that your son moves away ... nothing beats doing things with one's child. Mr. Lincoln was stingy at the rose park, tall bush with a few blooms. Acid-phosphatase is when roots secret acid to extract phosphorus from soil for blooming. Roses that can't do such, tend to have cleaner leaves, but stingy in blooms. My La Nia Rias Centifolia rose is an example ... always clean, zero B.S., no rose slugs either. But it hasn't bloomed for over a year. Why? It can't acid phosphatase. It can't secret acid to unlock nutrients from soil, so its leaves are alkaline ... fungi can't grow, and zero acids to attract pests. Jim, I like your idea of giving Mr. Lincoln Brewer's yeast. Brewer's Yeast has 18% potassium, 0% phosphorus, low iron (6%), but high in copper (50%) and decent in zinc (10%), also the anti-fungal mineral selenium is high at 90%, plus high in B vitamins. The last 2 times I gave stingy rose Eglantyne Brewer's Yeast ... it remained healthy, but bloomed lots for 2nd flush. No rose-slugs on Eglantyne either ... so the bitterness in brewer's yeast do repel insects. Lots of people give brewer's yeast to their pets to repel fleas. Years ago when I first started no-spray, I chewed on the young leaves of roses to see why some roses are disease-resistant. Knock-out's young leaf is terribly bitter ... no wonder I never see rose-slugs on that one, nor fungi. Pat Austin shiny leaves are yummy, least bitter and NOT sour either. I'm going to taste some leaves tomorrow, to see if the BS-magnet are sweet or acidic. My village's hard-well water, at pH 8.5, won the best-tasting water-contest in the region. My water is really sweet, I can squeeze plain lemon juice, and it still tastes good. What's missing in Brewer's Yeast is calcium ... I would supply gritty lime, less than 1 Tablespoon to balance Brewer's Yeast acidity at pH 5. If Brewer's Yeast doesn't work for Mr. Lincoln, then MG-soluble for roses might work, that has high NPK values, including phosphorus. MiracleGro soluble high in phosphorus at NPK 18-24-16 is risky, will be BS-prone. I already tested Pennington pellets NPK 4-6-6 with alfalfa, fish bone, and sulfate of potash .... great for blooming, but induced some B.S. since it's acidic, around pH 6. Even that doesn't work on Le Nia Rias ... so I might try MG-soluble with NPK 18-24-16. Here is a link that might be useful: Nutrients in Brewer's Yeast...See MoreMy first rose is Mister Lincoln
Comments (13)Great story! Mr. Lincoln was one of my first roses as well. Although it's gotten awfully tall here in Zone 10a/20, the blooms are magnifique. There was a thread on here in early 2014 that invited comparisons between ML and Don Juan. Intoxicated with my first ML flush, I wrote in my vote for that rose and complained that DJ was not taking off in my garden. Other, wiser gardeners (Seil for one) told me to wait and see. Sure enough, this year DJ has been growing and blooming like crazy, even in the drought, while ML, as stated above, has a wonderful spring flush and then ... not much. I did get two or three big dark red beauties in the past month thanks to our unexpected rainfall (also by coincidence I fed it just before the rain), and there will be more, but DJ is growing into its prime-time spot on a trellis in the front yard just beautifully. Both are essentials, as far as I'm concerned. Congratulations, Dan. I guess there's never been a John Wilkes Booth rose. ;)...See MoreMister Lincoln, America
Comments (3)Sara-Ann, both of those roses look like perfection!...See More
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