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Planted Bareroot Roses...Need Advice
"Robert M. Lyons" wrote in message . 166... Hi, I'm not new to roses but this has been a humbling experience. I planted 25 bareroot plant in a raised bed alongside the southside of my house. I hauled away the old dirt that was in there and replaced it with a mixture 50/50 of topsoil and nutribrew . I then planted my bare root roses in early May. Prior to my planting I kept the roses with roots submerged in a large barrel of water for 4-5 days. All showed sprouts by the time I planted them. When I planted them, I wrongly planted them too deep with 3- 4 inches of dirt covering the crown and on top of that I put down a layer of cocoa mulch. Fast forward 4 weeks: I raised my plants but they all appear to be doing poorly. The canes not the leaves have black spots on them and the sprouts/buds seem to not look very robust. Much of the new growth looks wilted. I haven't fertilized but my soil is quite organic. Could the cocoa mulch had an adverse effect on the roses? Any ideas?? I'm surprised Sunflower didn't pick up on this, but soaking the roses for 4-5 days is excessive and could very well have created problems for the plants down the road. One does need to rehydrate bare root plants, but the soaking should be limited to a few hours or overnight - soaking longer than that will deprive the roots of needed oxygen and you can actually drown the plant by longer soaking if all the roots are submerged. You also don't indicate where you are located, but deep planting of roses (soil ABOVE the graft union) is typically recommended for colder climates. Moving them again 4 weeks after planting this late in the season can also have an adverse affect, as the roots - provided they were not compromised initially by the long soaking - will have already started to establish themselves, resulting in transplant shock. To your defense, as Sunflower has aready indicated, the failure rate for bare root roses is pretty high - even with high quality product. My nursery receives bare root roses from very reputable wholesale sources in late January/early February and they are potted up almost immediately - even then we experience about a 25% failure rate. Best to purchase local container grown roses whenever possible. You will get healthy, well-root stock already in full leaf and the transition from container to ground is typically very smooth and uneventful, even at the height of the rose season - June. pam - gardengal |
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