Questions About Feeding These To Container Roses
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Comments (1)It could just be from the stress of all the transplanting. Next best guess is over-watering. More plants are killed by too much water than anything else. ;) Neither the perlite or a "little" timed release fertilizer should hurt them. Give them a few days to see if they recover. Meanwhile lay off any additional feeding and go very easy on the water until they get re-established. Hope this helps. Dave...See MoreFeeding container roses - What are some recommended methods?
Comments (6)Slow release non-organic fertilizers are the best for pots. Somehow, I have just never gotten organics to work very well with pots, as the pot just doesn't seem to develop "healthy soil" no matter what you do. So you must feed often, and from what I can tell, organics in pots are a waste of money. Something like Osmocote (or one of the slow-release knockoffs of that product) work best. And generally, the slow release formulas are heat dependant and will not release anything when it is very cold, (and when the plants are not growing anyways), so it is rather self regulating. If you can't use a slow-release formula, then anything else is fine as long as it is not very much at one time, and done often. As they say, weakly, weekly....See MoreHeirloom roses question about new roses
Comments (14)Hi - I was away for the day, but will now get back to your question about soaking the bands. Yes, the whole plant is submerged. Ya never know - there may be bugs hitching a ride on the upper leaves as easily as anywhere else on the plant. Some bands are pretty tall, so that's why the 33 gallon trash can - to fully submerge them. Also, I typically get 5 to 10 roses in a shipment, so I need the larger diameter to hold them all. If you only have 3, and they fit side by side in a smaller bucket with the tops of the leaves covered with water, by all means, use that. Fill the bucket first, and then carefully place (not drop) the bands on the bottom so as to dislodge as little soil as possible. You will need to lower them to the bottom slowly, to gently let the air in the soil come bubbling out of the pot. But once fully submerged, they will stay at the bottom just fine without disturbing the root ball. Then, when the time has passed, reverse the process and carefully remove them from the bucket. It's easy, actually (but you have to remember to do it, lol). Kathy...See MoreQuestion about feeding roses
Comments (12)People are right about the bio-availability of minerals, PLUS NPK does matter. When we get rain water at pH 5.6, that's acidic and break the bonds in the minerals in the soil, so it can release nutrients to plants. But when you water it with tap-water .. the tap-water is treated with calcium-hydroxide, which raise the tap-water pH to WAY ABOVE NEUTRAL, or very alkaline ... which TIE-UP the nutrients in the minerals, so they won't be available. The year which I get bumper-crop of tomato & or at least 40 blooms per rose-bush is when I get rain ONCE a week. But when you water it frequently with alkaline tap-water, that LOCKS-UP the nutrients in soil. Or last year when we got tons of heavy & all day long rain, which leached out nitrogen and potassium (for blooming) .. then my roses were wimpy & stingy, and my tomatoes didn't give much fruits. The NPK does matter, because you want to add decent nitrogen and potassium esp. when you get heavy rain that leaches nutrients out. Phosphorus mobility is a 1, it hardy get leached out, so the high number of 12 won't be utilized, it crystallizes with soil, making soil compacted, plus kill mycorrhyzal fungi that help plants to utilize phosphorus. You want decent number of nitrogen and potassium, at least a 6 for heavy rain ... roses and tomato are heavy-feeder, they need nitrogen for growth, and potassium for blooms. Your tomato's flowers look GREAT. I don't like to use seaweed (high in salt) in warm weather, since the salt really scorch & dry out plants, esp. when it's above 80. Seaweed is best used in spring, when there's tons of rain....See MoreDiane Brakefield
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