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Time for a new thread...lol
enchantedrose, please let us know what method you choose to overwinter your potted roses and the results.
I will be over-wintering Mister Lincoln this year and probably will use the same method I had success with in the past.
But we do have a small portion of our cellar that is not heated but I'm not sure if it would stay cold enough...
Here's a pic of Mister Lincoln today... Mister Lincoln on roids...lol
We are hoping ML blooms one more time before cold weather sets in because ML hates cooler weather!
Every year since 2010 ML would set buds this time of the year but refused to open them due to cooler weather!
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jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoHere's the portion of cellar that we have that is unheated. Its directly under our front porch. You can see the bottom half of the Zinnias through the window.
But I'm just not sure if it would stay cold enough. I may put a thermometer down there this year and monitor the temps from time to time...
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoThe transplanted Double KO still has not started growing new leaves yet...
But rose bush has stabilized and remaining leaves doing ok. (A few have yellowed but I left them on because they still have some green in them.)
This here is a slacker...lol This Double KO I have not mentioned this year because it is the runt of the litter...lol
This Double KO rose bush is really taking its time in getting going.
(Planted in July of 2012) (Hopefully it takes off next year!)
(I have to keep cutting all the Marigolds back in height and width because they get to large for the slacker rose bush...lol)
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9 years agoRoot system of a Zinnia plant below...
Our pet dog knocked this over today playing...lol
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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9 years agoI guess the leaves are not black but purple...lol
All the Marigolds I started from seeds the leaves are turning purple.The Marigolds I got at our local Greenhouses in May all look good yet as I just looked at each one. So our backyard plants all still look good including the blue Petunias.
Its the Marigolds out at the side of the house that are looking bad...All but 2 of those out there I started from seed... So 2 plants look good and the rest look like crap! LOL
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9 years agoDang the rootball on my sisters rose fell apart too... :-/
But its transplanted to our house now! So just gotta hope for the best!I cut those blooms off after I took pic...
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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9 years agoHi Jim: There's an orange mini-rose with scent, called "San Francisco Sunset" which I almost ordered from Burlington, but cancelled, since my Norwich Sweetheart (thornless mini, great scent) DID NOT SURVIVE my zone 5a winter.
I checked my roses this morning, the ones against the house, on the south-side, blooms open nicely & dry plants in the morning. But that Comte de Chambord on the north side, against the house, is wet with morning dew, and the bloom can't open. I made that spot too acidic with cracked corn. As the pH goes down, less calcium & potassium available, both necessary for blooming.
My best blooming is on the East side, where the sun hits it 1st thing in the morning. W.S. 2000 bloomed late in October in that location. So glad that I HAVE NOT extended my bed on the north side ... if I make another rose bed, it will be on the east side ... morning sun is best for roses.
Below is W.S. 2000 bloom, when fertilized with horse manure & chicken manure. The trace elements in the manure make the bloom purplish.... without horse manure, W.S. 2000 blooms are deep red.
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoHow far does your PH levels go down that it would cause less calcium & potassium to be available?
Our average PH levels here are 6.5 and we get tons of blooming so I'm assuming your soil PH levels must be getting lower than that?
We are getting sun today! :-) lol
Great pic of W.S. 2000 bloom Straw!
What color is its blooms suppose to be?After experimenting with the TONIC (Brewers Yeast/Blood Meal) I have mixed reactions. Two of the 8 plants I applied it on did not like it. (1 TBS of Brewers Yeast and 1 TSP of Blood Meal into a gallon of water must of been to strong for those two plants...)
Seems just right for Mister Lincoln & 6 other plants though...
But if I use it next year I'll mix it weaker...
This post was edited by jim1961 on Wed, Sep 17, 14 at 15:11
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9 years agoHi Jim: Absolutely gorgeous pic. of morning glory and bumble-bee. That's the best photography ever. What type of camera do you have? That picture is like real-life.
I will pH-test that spot under the rain-spout (with cracked corn), and compare that with my native clay. Will post pictures. Also will post pictures of the difference between geraniums with 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of Jobes Organic fertilizer NPK 2-7-4, versus the 2 geraniums without .... these are 1/3 the size of the ones with fertilizer in the planting hole.
My 13 tomatoes in the front with Tomato Tone NPK 3-4-6, versus 6 tomatoes in the back with Jobes NPK 2-7-4 ... Tomato-Tone beat Jobes in fruit-production after 5 summer months. The ones in the front have more leaves, flower early, earlier fruit, and tons of fruits now. Jobes NPK was slow in producing fruits, both for last year, and this year.
That's another proof that high-phosphorus doesn't help with blooming nor fruits. Tomato Tone NPK 3-4-6 has feather meal, poultry manure, cocoa meal, bone meal, alfalfa meal, greensand, humates, Sulfate of Potash, and gypsum.
Jobes NPK 2-7-4 has feather meal, bone meal, composted poultry manure, sulfate of potash. For my 20+ years of growing tomato, the best years were:
1) 1st year in native clay, pH 7.7
2) Later year fertilized with 6 bags of cow-manure
3) Later year fertilized with Jobes, plus 3 applications of cocoa mulch NPK 3-1-4.Cocoa mulch plus horse manure was awesome in bloom production & many petals. That's when I had 60+ blooms per flush on Liv Tyler in late August. See picture below:
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoWell I transplanted my deceased sisters rose bush to our house Monday afternoon.
Here it is Friday and its still looking ok to me...
I'm keeping it well hydrated with water I mulched it to keep moisure in the soil and to protect it over the winter months....
Weather has been cooler which is a godsend for transplants...lol
My wife took some stones from Angelas yard and placed around the rose bush...
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoMister Lincoln still growing and forming buds. As you can see ML still has no BS problems. And that mild powdery mildew problem he had went away.
On the other hand...lol
Zinnias out front getting severe Powdery Mildew now...
Zinnias out back are ok with no PM...
This post was edited by jim1961 on Sat, Sep 20, 14 at 10:06
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoTodays the 6th day since I transplanted my sisters rose to our house. Well the rose bush is getting a decent amount of yellow leaves now.
The weather has warmed which may of caused it OR I watered to much... ... :-/
I'll get it right one of these days...lol
Just took this pic today...
This post was edited by jim1961 on Sun, Sep 21, 14 at 19:07
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoLast night dropped down to 39 degrees but today is sunny and in the upper 50's here at 12:57pm...
The next 7 days looks like the temps will rise again... :-)
So it looks like decent weather until the end of Sept anyhow... :-)Here's Mister Lincoln today. His tallest cane is nearly 3ft now! (35 inches)
ML has 7 flower buds at the present time...
Next year I think I'm going to try Miracle Gro for roses on Mister Lincoln... (NO Brewers Yeast) As the nutrient content looks high enough just on the MG fertilizer..)(I tried fertilizing every 14 days earlier in the season but it was not very effective. Every 7 days has worked out much better here on ML...)
This post was edited by jim1961 on Tue, Sep 23, 14 at 13:22
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoI noticed Thomas Affleck has a flower bud thing going on! :-)
Nice and sunny out today with temps in the upper 60's this afternoon...
So Straw you think these yellow colored Marigolds in the pic that I got at our local greenhouses go well with the red Ko's? I should use them again next year because they did very well while I test others...
I need to test other Marigolds to see how they do so I'll do that next year also...
The even brighter yellow Marigolds I started from seed failed this year so will not try them again.Just took this pic today... Our Viburnum bush has fall colored leaves which will drop soon. But you notice Morning Glories started growing up through the bush...
This post was edited by jim1961 on Wed, Sep 24, 14 at 20:51
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoThe Good and Bad of the Thomas Affleck rose bush...
THE GOOD! Thomas Affleck has a flower bud... :-)
THE BAD! Thomas Affleck is very prone to Powdery Mildew and Blackspot here in my garden in Central Pa!
Thomas Affleck had problems mostly all season with PM and BS so I stripped all his leaves off. When the leaves grew back so did the PM and BS! :-/
So not a rose worth keeping!
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9 years agojim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years agoMy sisters rose bush I transplanted recently to our house is doing fairly well now...
I was overwatering the transplanted rose bush which was causing leaves to premature yellow and fall off. Once I started seeing those leaves yellowing I quit watering. I have not watered since then and the rose bush is stabilizing quite nicely now...
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