Why isn't my rosebush budding?

Question

I have the healthiest, bushiest rosebush, but problem is...I haven't had a rose on it yet!! I've had it 3 years and it is continuing to prosper, it is very tall. But no roses! I have tried bone meal and miracle gro? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Does your rose get more than six full hours of sun? It does not have to be continuous but it must be at least six hours of direct light total. Roses like lots of sun so a full day with 8 hours is best.

If you feed the rose to much nitrogen it may be putting all its effort into growing without setting blossoms. Stop feeding it or shift to a low nitrogen fertilizer for roses like Whitney Farm's 4-6-2. A simplified way to remember is N->leaves, P->flowers, K->roots, so you need a fetilizer with high phosphorous levels.

I make my own 4-10-6 using 2 parts blood meal
6 parts bone meal and 9 parts greensand. I make this for spring bulbs but use it if I want to push flowering peonies or dahlias.

Try Alaska Mor-Bloom 0-10-10 if you have a hose end sprayer since this is liquid. Just spay foliage.
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You said it is tall. Is it a climber? Climbers left to their own devices grow vertical canes that bloom only at the tips. Climbing roses produce two kinds of shoots: the main structural canes and the lateral, flowering shoots, which grow from the canes. If allowed to grow straight up it may have failed to produce laterals. If the main stems are slow to branch, tip-prune them to the first strong bud to encourage sideshoots that will produce flowers.
Fanning out the canes so they are closer to horizontal encourages flowering from laterals that grow from the main cane. Another method is to train along a fence or spiral the growth around a pillar.
In the late winter, around Valentines Day in zone 7, shorten flowering laterals to three or four buds but do not remove them entirely unless dead.

Check the website: www.Everyrose.com, and look under gardener's experiences to see what they have to say about this rose and whether it blooms for them. There are some roses touchier about their conditions than others.

Answer 2

I don't know what formula of Miracle Grow you're using but I would find some Rose fertilizer and work a little into the soil around the plant at the drip line, at the outer extremeties of the branches. Then water in well. Is it getting adequate sun? Roses need a minimum of 8 hrs. of sunlight a day.

Answer 3

It sounds such as you have Botrytis Blight! it particularly is led to by the fungus Botrytis cinerea. The affliction motives flower buds to droop and proceed to be closed. Buds turn brown and rot. specially circumstances partly opened buds are attacked, and an entire flower may be coated by gray fungus. the indications are a delicate, somewhat sunken, grayish-black lesion could boost in basic terms decrease than the flower head. The bud is destroyed. It usually hangs over at or close to the lesion. The fungus could additionally infect stub ends of stems from which flora have been cut back. to regulate try slicing and destroying all contaminated blossoms as quickly as they droop or die. to steer away from great numbers of fungal spores, do away with lifeless plant cloth on which spores are produced. Fungicide application may be mandatory. Bayer greater has a incredibly new product out call All-in a single. it particularly is a fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide all in a single product. terrific of all, you combination with water and pour it around the backside of the rose bush - NO SPRAYING!!! You try this each 6 weeks for the time of the starting to be season. supply this a attempt to stable success!

Answer 4

Roses need at least 6 hours of direct sun each day. Try mulching in some coffee grounds around the base of the plants.(starbucks gives them away for free). I am getting 6-10 buds at a time.