User avatar
webmaster
Site Admin
Posts: 9484
Joined: Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:59 pm
Location: Amherst, MA USDA Zone 5a

Indoor Potted Roses are Drying Up

Hey,
Someone asked me about this today. I didn't know what to tell them. Maybe someone here could answer the question. What do you do with an indoor rose that is drying out?

The Helpful Gardener
Mod
Posts: 7491
Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:17 pm
Location: Colchester, CT

Water it... :roll: :lol:

Sometimes though, that drying is a greenhouse plant, rushed into a dry store and then an even drier house just getting shattered. A plastic bag (held off the plant with a stick or wire frame) acts as a little greenhouse and can revive such a plant...)

HG
Last edited by The Helpful Gardener on Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

grandpasrose
Greener Thumb
Posts: 1651
Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:21 pm
Location: Quesnel, BC, Canada - Zone 4a

It may also be planted in a pot way to small for it, and is root bound. Or it could be sitting in soil that retains no moisture at all. Where is it placed? Is it too close to heater, or somewhere very warm? The answer is to keep the water in it! :wink:

Val

The Helpful Gardener
Mod
Posts: 7491
Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:17 pm
Location: Colchester, CT

Probably right in a wiinddow because sommeoone siad lots of light; an all too common mistake...

HG



Return to “Rose Forum”