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tomato leaves eaten/now roses....
Hi SugarChile,
Hello Wong, I have been enjoying your posts and your contributions. Thanks for your encouragement, I realy appreciate this. :-) Recently I was depress and told myself I should keep quiet and go back to work. Yesterday I saw your post but don't know how to reply, but it do encourage me to do other posting. We have very high humidity here for extended periods in the summer, and many rose varieties, even the resistant ones, fall prey to blackspot. Here I stay are tropical area, we can prune at all time. In this case I will remove all branches with blackspot up to the crown, even this will make the rose branchless. The new branches come out after this will be OK. If we do this early, we do avoid the need of making the rose branchless. Remove(thinning) old branches from time to time will help to avoid a lot of problem in my experience. Normally I will remove the new shoot from a branch after it give flower to stop the branch continua growing, and remove the branch when the existing leave change to a colour that indicate it's too old to function properly. We also have a lot of Japanese beetles, which seem to favor roses above all else. I think the plant will develop it own defend if we let it go on after a few regrow. This work for me. But we need to prune it for help balance the food it make and the food it useup. Sometime we may need to remove all buds to stop the new grow/flower for a while to accumulate the food to help it survive. There are so many beautiful and wonderful things I can grow without intensive care, that I decided to forgo roses and enjoy the ones my neighbors grow. I do this as well. If the species does not work well at my land, I just look for another species. But if I really need it, I will try to develop my old ecotype. Your grandmother's rose sounds wonderful, and I'm glad you were able to help it thrive, I do propagate it with the cutting I get when pruneing, and remove those does not grow well. I hope this will help to develop a ecotype that live better at my land. Thanks, Wong -- Latitude: 06.10N Longitude: 102.17E Altitude: 5m |
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