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probably overfertilized

11 years ago

After asking about my buds looking weird came home to thks. Because of the rain we had had in San Antonio, 20 inches last month i put the rose glo granules in. Do I just flush them?? Keep watering or let it go and hope for the best?? Again, I'm in zone 8b, roses put in a couple of months ago...holes had rose glo, castings, compost and native clay soil all mixedinnaat planting and drainage is excellent. Gets 7 maybe 8 hours of Sun in morning and evening. 1st is Betty White 2nd is Tiffany



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  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I think too much rain did it.

    Your roses look fine.

    The lower yellow leaves is the signature. Your roses will have to ride through a rough patch of time. We in the northeast got too much snow and Texas got too much flooding rains. Too bad we couldn't sell it in train cars to California.

    I have learned that now there is diseases causing organisms in the soil. (Anerobic). It happened one year when I was in the path of one of those hurricanes you are so familiar with. Now you need oxygen in the soil. Light rain puts oxygen into the soil.

    Try some Compost tea aerated to put good biology (aerobic) in.

    I would rake away that grass which is kind of suffocate and use 2 inches of good light fluffy finished yard waste Compost and pine straw mulch or shredded leaves. Clear out a little area where you dont step in like a flower bed. Kind of like a flooded basement in a house. It has to be cleaned up a little. Pick the leaves with the black and get them away.

    When I was a beginning rose grower, I planted everything too close. Roses need air. The fence is too close. But don't move the rose in the hot season.

    That rose glo looks like a great rose food.

    It will be a tough year for your Rose but they'll make it through it we all do. :)

  • 11 years ago

    That doesn't look like over fertilization to me at all. I agree with Sam it looks more weather related than anything.


  • 11 years ago

    The yellowing is from black spot disease.

    With excess rain it's OK to fertilize a bit more than usual, because available nitrogen can wash out of the soil. The typical symptom of over fertilizing is burning around the edges of leaflets.

  • 11 years ago

    I agree with Michael, it looks like black spot to me. Lots of rain will do that. Spray it with fungicide and it let it grow, it will be fine. If it was because of lack of draining it would affect all the leaves, not just the bottom ones. Fertilizer burn looks different. It looks like the leaves getting crispy from the sun. This is not that.


  • 11 years ago
    I'll give it another couple weeks before I spray it to see how it plays out. I don't mind it looking unsightly, I just want it to survive :(
  • 11 years ago

    Its gotta be too hot in San Antonio for a new BS infection to start now. I'm with Nipstress, just pick off the yellow leaves & don't spray. Its tricky to spray in hot weather without damaging the foliage.


  • 11 years ago
    Yea we've been in the upper 90s, our nights have been mid 70s. I definitely don't want to spray it and would rather see how it recovers on its own