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Yellowing leaves?

19 years ago

Today I noticed that one of my roses went from nice green leaves to yellow almost overnight.

In my limited knowledge, possibilities could be:

1) I finally caved into BS this weekend and sprayed with Bayer Disease Control for the first time. Did this one get too much?

2) I watered the other night (Sunday- the night before last) overnight with a soaker hose on a slow trickle. Then it rained fairly hard last night - .5 inch according to my rain gauge. Maybe it has too much water? (it had been very hot and dry here)

3) I have no idea. I said my knowledge was limited. LOL

Here's some pictures. I did pick up the BS leaf. The white fuzzy thing in the upper right center of the picture is just a dandelion fuzz.

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Comments (6)

  • 19 years ago

    Looks relatively normal to me, possibly a transition between purple and green.

  • 19 years ago

    Although some of the leaves are a lighter green, I wouldn't really call them yellow. Yellow leaves are very yellow--and drop off if barely touched. In my garden, that usually means too much water--like all of the month of May this year! Lots of yellow leaves as a result.

    Some of the leaves from May have stayed a lighter green, but I notice that the new leaves emerging in June-July are all much darker green. And yes, many start out red-purple before they become dark green.

    I wouldn't be worried yet--as long as you are getting on the BS.

    Good luck.

    Kate

  • 19 years ago

    OK, thanks. I swear it was greener the other day, but who knows. I'll just keep my eye on it.

    Another question that I have - I made a gallon spray solution with the disease control stuff. I didn't use it all up when I sprayed. Is it ok to keep in the container and use next time?

  • 19 years ago

    The Bayer disease control doesn't keep well. It will separate and turn yellow. I pour the leftovers around my worse rose when I'm done spraying. Next time only make a half gallon (just cut the amounts in half). Your rose looks fine, and I'm jealous that you got some rain. We haven't had any in Madison. It keeps going north and south of us.

  • 19 years ago

    I think your leaves look healthy (aside from the blackspotted leaf on the ground). To me, the difference in color signifies the difference between the older, larger leaves at the bottom and the newer growth (paler green) leaves toward the top of the plant. In my experience, when the reddish new growth turns green, it is often a slighter different shade than the older leaves. Shelley

  • 19 years ago

    I just start to grow Roses, but for me it looks like typical chlorosis. When my Clematis and Lilies do this, I treat them with Ironite.