Desirai
Cool Member
Posts: 79
Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:50 pm
Location: Alabama

My rose is sick. :(

I bought my grandma a rose bush 4 years ago. it grew to be about 3.5 ft tall but never bloomed flowers.

Its branches were rotting, turning brown, looking hideous.

So.. we whacked it down. *sad music*

Then, last month, lo and behold.. NEW ROSE BRUSH SPRANG FORTH FROM THE GROUND!

At a speed of about an inch a day, it grew and grew and now it is almost 2.5 ft tall.

It has over 17 blooms on it right now.

HOWEVER..... The flowers are struggling. They rot really quickly, within 2 days of blooming. Some of them never make it to bloom.

What do you call it when the flower is still enclosed in the leaves and not yet open? They stay like that and then rot. They turn black. Or they will open half-way, then turn black.

Right now there's about 4 big pretty flowers open, the rest are small blooms that are either not yet open, half way open, or rotted looking.

What do we do?

I live in Alabama, zone 7-8

dbang10
Full Member
Posts: 33
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:32 pm
Location: san jose

Yes it is probably balling or botrytis blight or thrips. Thrips can cause a bloom to not open and rot. Without seeing it it is difficult to determine.



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