how to grow rose plants???

Question

i shifted the rose plants from plastic covers which i bought from nursery, to mud pots, from then its not gorwing properly ? pls give solutions & also tell which type of manure to use

Answer 1

G'day Shalu,

Thanks for your question.

You might get better answers in the Garden & Landscape section of Home and Garden.

Plant Answers magazine advises "Containers can be any shape - - round, or hexagonal - - as long as they are 18 inches across and 14 inches deep for proper root development (except for minis, which can grow in smaller containers). Use pots made of plastic, clay, terra cotta, ceramic, metal, or wood. All they need to be effective is drainage at the bottom. If you're working with a planter that does not have drainage holes, add a thick layer of gravel at the bottom of the container so the roots do not become waterlogged. Pots can be heavy and difficult to move about, so casters are an excellent addition."

In fertiliser it recommends "Use a commercial rose food or a general-purpose fertilizer like 10-10-10 or 5-10-10 for the first two feedings. A formulation like 0-10-10 is best for the last feeding before frost."

I have attached sources on growing roses.

Regards

Answer 2

Roses are not yet established at first in the new pots. Give them a few days to get used to the new pot and just give water. Put them in half shade right from the start because our Singapore sun is very intense. Remember -- our half shade is like full sun in other countries. The shade should come from other plants.

Roses are greedy feeders and need more fertiliser than most plants. Buy some fertiliser that specifically say, for roses.

Next, it is happiest in a climate where the nights are less than 20 degrees C and days are around 25 oC. This is too bad. Short of having a special cold room for them, this is hard to provide. If you have a lot of plants, put the rose plant among them to get cooler. But make sure enough light gets to it.

After a rose has died, cut away the stem just 3 cm above a leaf node. You need to do this pruning to get new strong growth and more roses. If you don't prune, the rose bush is just a sickly bundle of old stems with withering leaves. The plants then wastes energy on stems that cannot give anymore roses.

If you put the plant in the ground it grows more strongely than in a pot and will grow taller with more branches and more flowers. The flowers are also bigger.

Now comes the diseases. It gets mould and black dots, and viruses (wrinkled leaves) and then here comes the pests! White fly and thrips and scale insects. You name it, your rose plant is going to get it. That's the history of my own rose plants and those of my friends.

Try spraying an insecticide regularly. If you feel that the people in your house are going to succumb before the insects, then try non-toxic remedies. Wet the leaves with soapy suds, or use water with a little squirt of washing liquid detergent in it. Use a spray gun to get the leaves all wet on both sides, and do this often. Don't get the soapy water onto the roots.

Turn the pot so the plant is horizontal within your wash area and then squirt. It is illegal to have detergent go into the drains, in case you don't know. The drains are providing our reservoirs with water.

Beetles in the evening come to eat the leaves. You have to take a torchlight and go and surprise them in the evenings. Put your hand under the leaf, shine the torch. The beetle when startled usually lets go, falls onto the soil and burrows in to hide. Now it falls into your hand. Quickly close hand and mangle it! (Blech!)

Watch your rose plant give smaller and smaller roses over the months, and count them. If before it dies you had, say, 20 roses, then if you paid $5 for the plant, you have bought 10 roses at 25c each, not counting the money for the fertiliser, insecticide and washing detergent. Anyway, you'd have had a lot of fun and experience to give to other people who ask you the same question -- how to grow roses.

And then go to some flower nursery and start the same cycle again by buying a new rose plant. If you buy certain breed of roses, they'd last longer and are hardier. It is a pity the nurseries never give the names now so that you can say, "I want a Peace rose plant". This is one of the older and hardier varieties, loves the heat and the sun. And stays big in size.

See what hardier and prolific rose plants your friends are growing in their gardens / pots and ask a cutting from them.

You can get free rose plants by buying a bundle of roses from the wholesalers (like Far East Orchid) in the morning just after they arrive from the Cameron Highlands. This is about $10 for 20 stalks. Then, when you trim the stalks to size for vases, don't throw away what you cut off, but plant them.

Stick them upright in a pot of fresh sterile soil (from a packet bought at the nursery) -- no mould, germs or insects! Don't move them after that or the new roots will break. After some weeks, throw away the stalks that have turned black and rejoice in those that are growing. Chances are that out of 20 stalks you get 1-3 new rose plants. Now, these are for free. You don't care when they die, you can plant these again.

Answer 3

Roses are not yet established at first in the new pots. Give them a few days to get used to the new pot and just give water. Put them in half shade right from the start because our Singapore sun is very intense. Remember -- our half shade is like full sun in other countries. The shade should come from other plants

Answer 4

If yu really concern about yur rose plants, don use lateral thinking....better ask the nursery, they will tell yu exactly what yu need to do according to yur local enviournment n climate conditions.

Enjoy gardening

Answer 5

as were brought, with the same mud plant them in pots.
u have to use manure and some good medicines.

Answer 6

u can use a stem cutting from aa gardner or if u want to go with the plant u have then grow it in good soil ,water it every day (not too much) also not from much height .
and if now also there is problem then ask a near by gardner to help u.
u ca n also growl a new plant.

Answer 7

You have to use same mud which they were in initially. may be u can use organic manure silly. I have 99 plants near my coffin.
Count Dracula

Answer 8

grafting

Answer 9

who is pouring the water ?

Answer 10

by grafting.