What is sprayed on cut roses to prevent asexual reproduction?
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Comments (22)Thanks Prof R...What you've said takes away some of the guilt I've had about his passing. I don't believe that he had a murmur before and he had recently gone through some pretty thorough exams trying to get to the bottom of what was causing his seizures. The only thing we didn't have done was an MRI, because they didn't have the capabilities at my vet, and we would have had to bring him to UT. Our vet and I made the decision that, even if we were to opt for an MRI and it showed a brain tumor, that there really was no reasonable treatment and we would just let him live out his days until it seemed like his quality of life was gone. He was a fighter and made it out of a horrible breeder situation. Part of his neurological disorder effected his balance, and we even had a little wheelchair specially made for him. He was a sweet little guy and we miss him dearly :( I think its wonderful that you work with a veterinary hospital. Ever since I was a little child, everyone told me I should have been a vet, and I greatly regret not going into that field and instead ending up in finance. I volunteer every weekend at a no-kill shelter and we also foster special needs dogs (how we came to acquire Dusty last year). Its not the same, but its my little contribution :) Tammy ps: sorry for hijacking gardenweb to talk about my Dusty!...See MoreFragrant, no spray & disease resistant roses
Comments (96)Hi Msgirl: I love your honesty .. I looked up El Catala on HMF, and I broke out laughing when I saw 3' in height .. translate to a slow & wimpy rose. Heirloom Roses is notorious for small root & slow start. Now they raise the price to $27 per band !! If the root is big & solid, then it flowers sooner (roses from Weeks & star are grafted on Dr. Huey, see below). http://scvrs.homestead.com/Rootstock.html I got roses from Heirloom Roses as own-roots and their roots were like alfalfa-sprout, instead of big & long & woody like Dr. Huey. High Country Roses in Colorado sells BIGGER own-roots at $14 per band (they ship to Hawaii). I got Austin roses from them with blooms on !! About Dr. Huey rootstock: They are native to alkaline region, thus most healthy in alkaline clay. Dr. Huey itself tends to mildew, so high potassium helps. If your soil is acidic, then raise the pH with lime to above neutral. Lime will supply calcium besides raising soil pH. Decades ago my neighbor bought a bunch of grafted-roses-on-Dr.Huey, he planted in our rock-hard clay at 7.7, and they were blooming like mad & zero diseases. I was jealous since I had just moved from an ACIDIC clay region, and gave up on roses due to black spots. Since Dr. Huey is a woody-root, calcium should be supplied at 1/2 of potassium. Calcium is what makes plant tissue firm, thus more resistant to pests like thrips, mites, and aphids. When nitrogen is supplied via chemical, the quick burst of growth makes plant tissue softer, more susceptible to pests. I have been growing tomato for 30 years, and the only 2 years with big-fat tomato worms, plus blossom-end-rot were the years I used chemical fertilizer 10-10-10. Other years with ORGANIC slow-released nitrogen like manure, cocoa mulch, alfalfa .. no worms, no blossom-end-rot, since those ORGANIC sources supply low-nitrogen, decent potassium & calcium & trace elements....See MoreRoses grown in no-spray gardens
Comments (29)There are a lot of romantic ideas about rose health. I very much wish that some of them were true. Here are my own thoughts on the matter. Roses under stress are more susceptible to disease than that same cultivar would be in more ideal conditions. A young rose that first year or two or three might not yet have grown a root system that can reach water efficiently. Just as important, it might not yet have established an extensive partnership with mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. That rose will be more robust once it has accomplished these tasks, and we should see less disease because it is stronger. But it will never be more disease resistant than is innate for that particular cultivar. Think of an analogy in people. Take someone who is born shy. Raised thoughtfully, he can become more confident and more expressive, and even more comfortable with other people. Eventually it may not show, but in his heart he will always be that shy kid. So it is with roses. In the best circumstances, they will realize the most disease resistance they are capable of, but they will never outgrow disease vulnerability that is built into them. The reverse is true as well. I have had roses that got no disease for several years then suddenly did. Sometimes it is a permanent thing and they go on getting BS/PM/rust, and sometimes it is just the conditions of that particular year favoring disease. If you do not plan to spray, you will be a happier gardener if you choose your roses from among the varieties that tend to be highly disease resistant in your area. They will get disease occasionally, but most years, not much. And it does need to be your own area. For example, Jerijen and I both live in California with a Mediterranean climate but are a couple hundred miles apart. She has heavy fog influence and for me fog is occasional. Our temperatures are different, too. We both see powdery mildew and rust, but not necessarily on the same roses. This does not mean that you must never grow a rose that gets disease. Deuil du Docteur Reynaud gets powdery mildew and rust starting midsummer every year. I can't even pronounce it but don't care because I just love it. Huge, gorgeous, fragrant roses and it reblooms well, with a huge flush in the fall when it is the star of the front garden. You can pick one or two or three of such roses and have a beautiful garden. You just don't want all of them to be like this! Rosefolly...See MoreSpraying Roses for
Comments (42)In line with this conversation, I just read this piece. FRANCE has passed a law banning the use of garden pesticides. THEY, it seems, take their pollinating insects seriously: Leslie Nelson Inman July 18 at 4:46 PM d from public green spaces to private gardens when the over-the-counter sale of pesticides to non-professionals becomes a thing of the past.“ We need to learn about insects, instead of spraying them. There is so much about bees that most of us don't realize, including the sheer amount of diversity. There are over 4,000 species of native bees in North America alone. LINK: https://www.mnn.com/…/french-parks-and-public-gardens-bid-a… LINK: https://www.sciencefriday.com/…/beyond-the-hive-the-wonder…/ LINK: https://www.mnn.com/…/9-extraordinary-facts-about-north-ame…...See MoreBenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
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