Fertilizing Roses in Pots
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Fertilizing for Newly Potted Roses
Comments (4)Read the label on your potting soil to determine whether it comes with fertilizer already added. If not, it is helpful to fertilize as soon as the plants leaf out. I would use a soluble fertilizer like Miracle Gro at standard dilution or at half strength. Either way, it will not hurt the plants unless you use more than the label says to.. Superthrive is not a fertilizer, and as far as I know there is no evidence that it has any effect on plants....See MoreFertilizing roses with organic fertilizer
Comments (9)Marlene, ideally I fertilize my roses organically with an organic rose fertilizer (three times a year) and alfalfa meal (2 times a year), since my soil seems to be very poor in terms of nutrients and I have the impression that they leach out quickly, too. I have read, that it is recommended to remove the mulch and put it back after you have applied the fertilizer and scratched it into the soil, but I have never done that. It is just too much of an effort for me. I just scatter the fertilizer around the rose on top of the mulch, scratch it into the mulch, and water it in very well. It seems to work just fine for me. I definitively know what you are talking about regarding that it is sometimes a pain to scratch the fertilizer into the soil and crawl around underneath the rose, to get it close to the center of the root ball, even though I only scratch it into the mulch :-). For that reason I have fertilized some of my roses just once this year! After reading about other people experiences here, I may try to only water the fertilizer in and that's it. I assume, that it might take the fertilizer a little bit longer to act, but that is better than to fertilize my roses not often enough, because it's just too exhausting....See MoreFertilizer for potted rose babies
Comments (7)Thanks Kaye! Guess I am always in a hurry, but I want them to grow off fast so they can be ready for winter. I want some early basal breaks. I have some good looking activity on the cuttings you gave me. You were right about Lamarne...sure hope it has some roots to go with all the new growth. The Chinas are being slow, though. I only see one leaf that looks like it may be going, so far. What is the right name for the "Mexican Hydrangia"? I wanted to look it up, but no luck without the correct name. Had to pamper them a bit...carrying them home bare root, wrapped in wet newspaper set them back quite a bit, but they are getting to where they can tolerate more sun without wilting, now....See MoreYour plans for roses in ground and pots: soil prep & fertilizing?
Comments (105)anna, lavenderlace, aztcqn: There is something weird with this site due to which the posts do not show up in time. Most weird thing is that if I make a post from a new device (a new loptop, mobile phone etc), it is not visible even to me when I login from a different device. I can only see my own posts, immediately after posting, if I log on from the same machine..... I haven't understood how this happens. Feeding during monsoon has been a problem for me since past few years and I have tried different models. Since I wanted to be 100% organic, most solutions that I tried didn't work that well and my roses would stand exhausted and depleted by the end of monsoon. This year, I fed them after the monsoon in August and September with a doze that comprised 1 tea spoon each of Potash, gypsum, a water soluble 36-0-12 nitrogen fertilizer and a trace element supplement that contained Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, Co and Mb mixed in 18 liters of water (capacity of the bucket). This had a good effect on the roses in pots that you can see in my threads of that time. There is also lot of discussion about the pros and cons of various methods... Fall Roses in Islamabad......zone 9b, October Roses.........zone 9b & September Roses, zone 9b Islamabad best regards...See Moreroseseek
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