What's wrong with this cane?
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Red canes vs. Green canes?
Comments (4)Well, not ALL new growth is red or reddish. It depends upon the specific genetics of the involved roses. Some are quite red while others are green, yellow-green, even blue-green. Julia's Rose traditionally expresses reddish new growth. I discovered, isolated and registered a golden mustard toned sport of it years ago which I named Golden Julia. It was as if all plant parts lost the gene for red/pink. Golden Julia's new growth is yellow green. Its flower color is as if the "copper and parchment" lost the pink. So, just as some of us have blond hair, black, brown or red hair, some roses have new growth which is redder while others have less to no red. It's normal. And, as was stated, some are quite reddish but lose those tones as the foliage matures. These three seedlings are from the same cross (same parents) raised last year. It all depends upon which genes the plant inherits. Then, this seedling (different parents) started rather purple-green, then turned quite red with the colder weather. It isn't deciduous, so the red leaves aren't falling, but returning to their green growing look. Kim...See MoreBlack canes = bad. Brown canes = ?
Comments (13)hi, mehearty, I hope this is not too obnoxious/rude to add my questions to your post. But I too have questions /concerns about the brown canes... I had one damaged tree rose branch that unlike the other black frost burn spots on my other tree rose branches had seemed to spread? rot? and wondered if you had this same problem? and wondered if cherriej and veilchen had any comments at this... There used to be a lot of green in the branch in spite of the damage, 2/3 green but the upper 1/3 black... I had hopes for it because of the green but then one day, much too my horror it had spread down to 1/3 black and 1/3 a yucky brown with only a bare 1/3 green left...the brown was so close to a new emerging bud that I panicked and cut it off...The part still remaining was very healthy white and green outer shell, but I made one cut then took it away and made several (investigative) cross-section "autopsies" of the removed branch. The upper black was black on outside but ash-white on inside, but the brown areas were yucky brown on outside with slight juice but yucky sallow center on the inside... Did I cut out a diseased stem...or did I jump the gun too soon. Was your brown like mine in terms of spreading downward? Thanks and much apologies if I'm being rude... I'm a total beginner gardener (never grew anything in my life except for a beautiful orchid)...and in March bought two tree roses that got snowballed and iced (poor tree roses)....See MoreRaspberry: Old canes not as healthy looking as new canes
Comments (3)They were planted in 2012, so 4 years ago. The raspberries tend to be small, but they are too "crumbly." The plants do produce a lot of raspberries every season. Maybe fewer this year, we'll see. I don't know if there is a virus infection, but the floricanes have looked like this for the past few year (maybe since 2013). If I were to decide to remove the raspberry plants, would waiting one year before replanting the same spot get rid of the virus? Same is limited in my garden. Or how replanting them a meter away in a new raised bed?...See MoreRose canes , what's wrong?
Comments (10)If it is scale those little spots will be actual insects that look like a sort of flat limpet -- you can pry them off with your fingernail. If they are scale insects, then scraping them off and, if I remember correctly, using an alcohol-based solution (do a google search for percentage of alcohol) is supposed to help. If it is fungal, then I can't say what you should spray (since I don't spray). If only a few of the canes look really bad you could prune just those off for now. I remember that Jeri said something about fresh horse manure for downy mildew -- I've wondered if there would be other fungi that would also be impacted by this treatment. It probably wouldn't hurt to try something like that as an experiment if you have a neighbor with a horse (and if it works let us know)....See MoreMischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
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