I am far from being an expert but I can tell you what everyone told me when I brought home my first gift rose. Get it outside!!! There are very few people who can keep a rose alive inside. Your home is way too dry for a rose. Put in dappled shade for the first couple of days then slowly move it into more sun. A rose needs 6 hours of sun a day to grow. Make sure you keep it well watered but don't put a tray under it, the water must be able to drain out the bottom of the pot. You want the dirt to stay slightly moist. There are actually probably 3-4 roses in that pot. Whether or not to try and separate them is up to you. You will find many people who will tell you on each side of the do/not do fence. See Seil, I did listen!

Hi Michelle! First off, where do you live or what zone are you in. I see that google page is in Celsius, are you in Canada? If it is at all possible you need to get the rose outside and keep it outside. ROSES ARE NOT HOUSE PLANTS!!! I know they sell these gift roses for inside but they are also meant to be disposable once they stop blooming. That way they can sell you more, lol! That's also why they stick in three or four cuttings to make the pot look fuller and have more blooms to attract buyers. But they do not have to be disposable if they are put outside where roses belong. It would actually do best planted in the ground. I would not recommend trying to separate them Some people have been successful at it but it's a very iffy proposition and you could lose them all. I would just re-pot them up into a little larger pot as a unit. Make sure your pot has good drainage holes and DO NOT put a tray under it. The water needs to be able to drain freely out the bottom. Always use a good light weight potting soil too. No top soil or garden soil, it's too heavy and won't drain well. It looks like you are going to have some rain this week so that should be plenty of water. Roses like about an inch of water per week. That's not a lot in a small pot so don't over water it. Only water it if when you stick your finger into the soil up to the second knuckle and it comes out dry. You don't say what kind of critters you're worried about but usually the worst pests are rabbits and deer. For rabbits just find a place off the ground, maybe a table top? Deer, well, they are a problem! It looks fairly healthy so I don't think you need to worry about it dying. Just give it good sunshine, water and a little fertilizer (half strength to start) and it should be fine.

Thank you so much. I didn't try to do the shade cover since it's the 4th day now and whatever left, it stands strong. I have 7 rose bush, and I went thru the meticulous process of spraying and washing my my hand every single leave left. Stems Are green as you said. I didn't increase water in term of watering if that's what you mean. if water ans in rinsing the rose, yes, been doing that. I have 1 question: One of the rose has a perfect shape, like it is fanning itself out to a round shape, my favorite one. It was so healthy that I didn't even to trim any stem off. Now the defoliation happened, will the leave grow back on same stem, or they will spring out new stem? I'm concerned because I particularly love how that young rose look. I forgot the flowers and bud. I will remove my Emmanuell Gulliot and Sister Emmanuel , too. The fairy itself, already lost whatever it lost, and the other keeps blooming. Should I remove it, too or leave it alone. on a note regard pressure spraying: I don't have it and I will save for it. I will have 3 more rose coming from the same importer. She always have spider problems and really spray too much. In my 1 year rose growing, neem oil is the thing that truly kill the spider and their eggs ( the white powdery on the leave back ). I never see leaves are so clean! Do you think it's safe if next time I use a more dilute sollution, then keep them in my bathroom which has indirect light?

I picked up some of these minis over the course of a few months last year while I was working at a box store that had a floral department that sold these sorts of plants. One of the first things I learned is that the potting soil they use is kind of crappy- and they tend to cram several plants together in one pot. They kind of only mean for folks to keep them alive for a short time really, much like mums for fall or poinsettias at Christmas. And by they I mean third party sellers or consignees- these box stores don't do their own stock, but rather buy or consign from a grower. It was shocking how many plants got chucked out and written off once they lost their bloom or the poor and undernourished soil along with employees that didn't know how to water correctly started telling on them. But over the months I kept my eye out for blooms I liked and could save while "still almost good" before they got tossed due to being done blooming. Lost some from them being crammed and not happy and watering oops at first. I'd never tried roses like this before, but I couldn't resist their little blooms. Then I started transplanting individually into bigger pots with better quality soil and got them all cosseted up through the rest of winter- thanks to some timely advice from folks around here... I now have a half dozen small but healthy roses in half-gallon pots that got put out on the porch a couple weeks ago once it finally got nice enough outside. They are growing nicely, will need the bumping up to bigger pots before too long now. I didn't transplant up into as large a pot as roseguy suggests. My roses came 3-6 plants per 4-6 inch pot, and I transplanted up into 1 per half-gallon pot. It's what I had on hand and space for indoors in a good spot till spring. Only problem is, now I have no idea which colors survived and no idea when they might bloom again, lol. I got them in bloom during the cold when roses around here aren't growing, let alone blooming. So, I can tell you it is possible to get these little roses to go. It's for sure harder if you don't repot and tend them right away while they establish in. Not sure if yours will or not- couple of my little scrappies turned out to be hearty survivors and others I thought looked like they should take just fizzled out. The sooner you get them separated up and into bigger pots with better soil and nutrients the better. If you can get them outside for the summer- do. Just be careful and remember they will probably need a bit of hardening off- they are used to indoors and more climate control.