Like you, I recently bought a potted,grafted Shenandoah 'tiny' plant and transpotted it into a bigger pot, where it has grown OK with 2 small branches developing full-sized healthy leaves. An identicle-looking tiny grafted KSU Atwood from the same seller that was packaged the same, growing in the same kind of nursery pot, repotted by me the same into the same kind of tall pot on the same day in the same soil mix with the same fertilizing and the same watering and the same Sunlight....never had one bud on the tiny scion grow out. It's rootstock sent out a couple shoots, but even these declined and died. I have used Miracle Grow, Super Thrive, and some granular fertilizer to nourish both. My conclusion is that the tiny root system is not reliable to support the tiny grafted scion. I have more confidence in clipping off the scion and regrafting it to a mature paw paw with a developed root system. I do not know what the patent restrictions dictate, but if I am going to invest $$ on a valued scion that is only being kept alive by an immature, very vulnerable rootstock, that is not a safe bet to make again. It would be a whole lot better taken care of if it was grafted onto a "Mango paw paw that has been in the ground for several years and is 8 or 9 feet tall". I wish that paw paw roots on tiny plants were as eager to grow and hardy as,.. say,...mulberries. Maybe that would be the best focus of additional paw paw research. Vigorous hardy rootstocks.

I just have to say, I had no idea what I was getting into when I bought my first clematis. I am so impressed and pleased that I have to talk about it. The clematis that had a couple of buds at the beginning of August now, almost two months later, has a ton of flowers with no sign of letting up anytime soon. I'm still seeing new buds coming out. I'm absolutely blown away. :0)

Kandhi, Just like Mike mentioned. I seen those buds in my new alba that I just bought about a week ago too. I bought 2 tall michelia albas on ebay they haven't bud for me yet. But the one I got from Chicago it have several buds. Now I have 3 michelia albas. The two that I had before died on me this past winter. So I decided to try them again.

Hi Megaera, If your rose cultivar is the type where the flower has more than 50 petals, it won't open successfully until we get really hot weather, so probably not until mid to late July and beginning August. Roses are heavy feeders, so any fertilizer that has high numbers (20-20-20)plus lots of water, sun and air circulation is necessary to have good growth and bloom.