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Weird Growth on New Roses
Comments (4)We've had some particularly cold weather for this time of year here. All of my roses have new red growth on them, but because of the cold, they haven't really progressed beyond that. So I have a bunch of sticks with red tips. I admit, it does look kind of cool. Luckily, even with hard freezes every night this week, there is no damage. The roses are just in suspended state until it warms up....See MorePlease Help..Weird Growth... What's wrong with my rose?
Comments (13)Just a tip for the future, if you have the sandy loam typical of the Central Valley, that is nearly ideal soil as it is, maybe needing just some sulfur for a pH adjustment, and a shovelful of manure. It would be better not to backfill with bagged mixes, although bagged mixes would not likely cause your problem. If you added cups of phosphate to the hole, I would go back to my original suspicion about zinc--that is, if you are seeing what I described (the tip stopped growing and stunted shoots came out around it). You may need to consult a soil/plant testing service. Since it happened after transplanting, it seems like soil chemistry may the the cause....See MoreIs this thrip damage or...?
Comments (15)Rose midge will also cause that bunching of leaves. As the midge destroys one lateral, another begins to grow. When the new midge hatch they will go for that tender new growth then the process begins again.This leaves a look of too many leave in one spot. In case you are interested this is what worked and did not work for me. This is my opinion only everyone must do what right for them. My 2nd year was the worst for midge. Out of hundreds of roses there where no blooms anywhere. This was more than 12 years ago when many nasty pesticides were still available. I did what was recommended. I gathered 3 different chemicals with different modes of action to keep them from developing resistance to one pesticide. I sprayed every seven days for one cycle. Then every ten days till the end of year. Even missed the fireworks in July with my family as it was spray day. At the end of the year I removed 2 inches of soil from around and under bush. The following season I held my breath waiting to see how it went. They came back all of the previous was for nothing. There weren't as many it's true but not gone and surely those that survived would now be immune to what I had used the year before.That was the last time I used any chemicals in the garden. Two years later we had a very droughty year with no rain from spring to fall. Spider mites covered the roses the ground full of cracks. The surprise was there was no rose midge. It seemed as thou they need moisture or something that year had dined on them. Rose midge stayed gone from here until two years ago. I'm now experimenting with pulling back any ground cover from affected roses to allow the ground to dry, Also placing a barrier fabric down around the entire canopy of rose so that the midge larvae can't reach the soil. Plus removing any buds that begin to bend. Barrier fabric is much easier to do with hybrid teas than a big shrub. Please take this as just another opinion not at all meant to sound like the only way. Just how it went for me....See MoreWeird Lithop growth?
Comments (7)Nice. I would think the old plant was going to have “twins”, but one of them did not develop well, maybe because of the unusual pattern of overwatering and drying. Now that things have settled down, the second one starts growing too. Just a guess, but see how the little plant grows the same direction as the other one, just like lithops twins do....See MoreUser
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