Using Mills Rose Magic or Rose Tone
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Comments (3)I used it one year wih newly planted bare roots and they died. But I amended the planting soil. Think it was too hot. I uses it every year on the top as a scratch in and the roses seem to love it. I think a smidge in the bottom of the hole would be ok. Would try to keep it from direct contact with the roots....See MoreAnyone use Rose Tone?
Comments (26)Carla, maybe Mike Rivers will drop in and clarify matters. Just a thought and I doubt it should be a concern. Under natural soil conditions, the great preponderance of phosphate is insoluble anyway. But all manufactured phosphate fertilizers are in soluble (available) form. When we apply them, the plant scarfs up some. Then the unused part will convert to insoluble forms within a few weeks and stay in the soil. However, if no fresh manufactured fertilizer is available, plants will still find enough phosphorus to grow. Tiny bits of soluble phosphate are pried loose by pockets of acidity created by plant roots, earthworm guts, mycorrhyzal fungi, and other biological activity. A common bit of advice is not to apply manufactured phosphate at the same time as lime, because the lime would speed up the evolution of soluble phosphate into insoluble calcium phosphate. My thought was that gypsum probably has the same effect or moreso. However, roses are probably going to get all the phosphorus they can use despite that....See MoreRecipe for home made Mills Magic Rose Mix?
Comments (11)I can get Milorganite at both Lowe's and HD but it has gone way up in price to $10., Alfalfa pellets and Fish Emulsion from a Feed Store but they cannot get Fish Meal or Cottonseed meal, just not available anymore.... Bone Meal and Blood Meal are all over the place here but in small bags which makes it pricey.. I get Black Hen in 20 lb. bags also Black Kow in the big bags.....I'm in St Pete, Fl and go to Neeld-Gordon on 13 Ave No. just east of the overpass abt. 19 St, backed up to the RR tracks, a real olde-tymey feed store with wood floors and counters, a pot-bellied stove in use in the winter, shelves of antique farm supplies, and pens of chickens in the back !! worth just the trip to go back in time like that ! sally...See MoreMills Magic Mix or Rose Tone
Comments (21)I remember reading this somewhere - "Roses are hogs - feed 'em". The article said something to the effect of never mind getting technical - just get a good fertilizer and feed regularly. For whatever reason I have remembered that. I can get MM Mix in Houston at Southwest Fertilizer - they also have their own mix that is very similiar and costs less. I am a member of the Houston Rose Society and in February, there is "rose week" where rose products are discounted 15% off. I go to Houston, lunch with a friend and buy all my Mills Mix then. However, this year they were totally out of it so I bought their mix. I have not seen any difference. I also use Rose Tone. I suppose because I dont feed just one thing, I cant tell if one is better than the other. I have a friend who is an expert gardner - he buys the cheaper K-Mart fertilizer instead of the Miracle Gro - says it does the same thing. I am sure no expert rose grower like so many knowledgable people on this forum, but I have had good luck top dressing with rotted horse compost [I raise horses so its in good supply] and using fish emulsion, the Houston Rose Society mix, Miracle Gro for Roses, Rose Tone, Mills Mix, Carl Pool BR 61 - or whatever else I find that looks good. Seems to work well....See Morececily
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