My rose bushes are giving off tiny blooms or none at all, when I bought them the blooms were big & healthy.?

Question

At the garden center the blooms were big and beautiful, that's why I bought them for their color and scent. Now they are small, some are nearly colorless. I planted them the proper way etc. I have Mister Lincoln, Voodoo, Black Magic, First Prize, Oklahoma and Tropicana. Please advise what to do. I have rubber mulch on top of the soil and wood mulch around the base of the bushes. I water every other day because it's so hot where I live. Almost 100 degrees daily. I don't know if it's my soil or what. I have the bushes against the house, my neighbors have theirs the same place and my other neighbor has hers in her front lawn along the edges --- all their roses are huge, colorful and beautiful. Mine are puny, tiny, colorless -- I'm embarrassed. They probably laugh at me. Sniff ...Sniff. All I wanted were beautiful roses just like them.

Answer 1

Roses require constant care.
3 things are a must
1.Deadhead daily if needed
How To Dead Head Roses ..Video
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-dead-head-roses
( remove dying or dead flowers cut at angle 2.Fertilize
(I use MiracleGro Rose Food)
Photo/ I use the box
http://www.miraclegro.com/index.cfm/event/ProductGuide.category/category/%2FCategories%2FProducts%2FRose+Care
3.Keep insects and disease off.
I use ...
Schultz Garden Safe 3 in 1 Fungicide.
It covers
fungicide..insecticide...miticide...
The bugs were eating the leaves on mine and I had some black spot. This took care of it all.
PLUS you can use it on vegetables right up to the day you pick them.
Walmart has it for about $4 or $5 for 24 oz bottle.
PHOTO of it below.
http://www.yardlover.com/products.php?pid=319
You must live in the same general area as me Missouri. Man it hot!

Answer 2

I had a neighbor several years ago who hybrided his own roses. He had a couple hundred varieties around his yard and in his greenhouse. Here's his keys to big, beautiful roses:

Proper trimming - When the bloom dies, cut the stem down to the next leaf stem that has at least 5 leaflets on it. They should also be good, healthy leaves, not the scrawny ones. In winter (December is good), cut the canes down to about 12 inches from the ground. When the shoots come back the next year, thin them out to about 5 good shoots that appear above the rootstock and that go in different directions. Cut any shoots at the ground if they are emerging from below the root ball.

Fertilization - Use a systemic rose food (available at any home improvement store or nursery). It contains the proper nutrients for big blooms and it also contains an insecticide. If bugs (particularly aphids) eat the foliage, the plant itself is toxic to them and they die.

Answer 3

Not to worry one little bit. It's a bit of shock in this heat. Can you shade them for a few days. I use to turn a lawn chair on its side near a newly planted shrub or flowers. Get an old sheet and make a curtain for shade in the afternoons. You know, something like that.

You have chosen beautiful roses. You are going to be so happy.

When you have time, go to a place such as WalMart and buy 'pound-in' garden liners. Line your roses like a little well with the pound-ins. Now you can hold that water in place so that it will soak in and not run off.

Since your roses seem to be in shock, do not fertilize them the rest of the summer.

Here is more information in case you need it:

http://www.rosemagazine.com/pages/planting.asp

If you do lose any of the shrubs, plant them at the end of 2008's winter or the first of spring. Don't be afraid to start over.

Happy gardening to you.

Answer 4

Roses should actually be planted early spring, right when the ground is no longer freezing..also as I buy all plants and veggies, I never buy any that are already blooming or producing fruit...For 1 when you plant them they are at the stage of producing thier flora/veggies and do not concentrate on growing thier roots, therefore you get a weak root system , and weaken the plant itself..always pick items that are not yet blooming and reproducing , so they will get a chance tio develop a healthy root system first before fruiting out...

Answer 5

confident, truthfully get rid of them till now they're thoroughly dry. Take a mason jar or mayonnaise jar and upload a pair of cup of canola oil. upload the petals to the oil and permit to age for some weeks. tension the petals out of the oil and you will have a spectacular dermis/rubdown oil. the clever clarification for removing or deadheading is that in case you enable the roses to start to pass to seed, all bloom with stop. The plant will positioned its capability into making rose hips fairly than flora.

Answer 6

Roses aren't going to bloom prolifically in the heat of summer. Here in Texas we prune them by about 1/3 in mid-August & then they put on a show to rival that first bloom of spring in October when it gets cool again.

Answer 7

I've heard that you can make the flowers bigger by frequent trimming and culling. The idea is to force the rosebush to put all its energy into fewer flowers. I don't know how well that would work, but it's what I've heard.