Hi Ademink! Are these some that spent their first season planted in a wheelbarrow? LOL...just had to ask. Here is my suspicion...that the temps are heating up so much, so quickly, that it is causing the blast. My suggestion...if they are planted in full sun, move them. My later double ones are in a bed where they are shaded a good bit. I have lots of varieties, both single and double, that bloom just great in the woods....the reason being is that they sprout, grow, and most bloom b4 the leaves start to emerge. Geranium just finished blooming in the woods, and now a poeticus variety is just now pretty well finishing up. I think the shade of deciduous trees and shrubs is fine, where full shade, like from a building where they would get no sun would be harmful. What do you think? Sue Here is a link that might be useful: Explanations of causes of bud blast.

Thanks everyone! I've been using Miracle Gro AV mix and perlite 50-50. I didn't realize they needed repotted so often so I'm sure my three oldest plants will really appreciate it as they've never been repotted. I did go to the shed and found one of the PVC light stands I made several years ago when I was starting a lot of seeds. I think my husband robbed a few fittings last year so hoping to pick up the missing pieces and a a couple of light fixtures tomorrow so I can get everything set up and ready.

No, not the peat or paper degradable pots thought I wish I could find those locally. They are in typical planter pots between 2 and 3 gallon sized, with the bigger roses in the bigger pots. There are 2 Harlow Carr that were shipped bareroot with bigger but trimmed roots so nothing to hold the soil yet. The Spring Hill Rainbow sale collection of 5, again shipped bareroot and no little roots yet- Pumpkin Patch Ch-Ching Cupid's Kiss Violet's Pride Take it Easy. The remaining ones were body bags I picked up on clearance and those had longer more developed roots with little white rootlets staring, enough to hold on to the body bag material quite well, which I soaked off gently. Those are: Cl America Therese Bugnet CL Don Juan 2 Knockouts. I used a mixture of potting soils: MG and Dr Earth Organic. Normally I would mix in some native soil when putting in a pot to eventually go in the ground, but I'm on red clay soil now and when it's wet one can forget working with it in any way, shape, or form. I have gardened in clay and shale before so at least that is nothing new. Anyway, I'm afraid if I try to plant them too soon there will be no/not enough little roots to hold any root ball and the stress might be too much for them. Moses, do you mind if I ask what general area of PA you are? Though I'm not from PA originally, I recently moved from Western PA. Thankfully I was able to pot up a good amount of plants, roses, and fruit trees to bring down with me. It's been quite an adjustment to gardening down here but my Zephy Drouhins were so happy they stayed green and in leaf all winter, however now I need to be mindful of the heat and humidity all summer long. Up there I felt comfortable potting something in late April or May and putting it in the ground in July, but here I'm just not sure. Thank you Seil, it's comforting to know that if there is good root development they will handle the heat ok at the time of planting.

Pots are a lot of work, and it is not always a success story. There are others with many more pots and I wonder how they do it! Many of my pots have begun to pip even though the weather is so cold. Most of the ones in the ground (except for undulata marginata) have not emerged. Your weather sounds awful MadPlanter. We're still cold too with today being in the mid to upper 30's and the nights around 30. I have been holding off taking the pots out of the storage well and other storage areas. After they come out, the next problem is critters. They start digging into the pots. With this spring being so cold and late, that probably means more digging. I generally try to keep them covered at night, and I think that helps. But I can only do that for so long. If they keep digging the same pot, I will put some pebbles on the media or find some mesh to cover them with. Wouldn't that be great if the slugs were reduced due to the awful weather? (Wishful thinking)