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Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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Posted by
ljbrusta none (
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Tue, Jun 19, 12 at 16:13
We have several roses in our yard all are doing very good. However, one is growing well and putting out flowers but it will put up a new stalk and it will be healthy, thick and full of leaves even start to bud or put out a few flowers and then all of a sudden it will get "loose" the whole stalk will wiggle to the touch and with in a day or two it will die or just be laying on the ground still green. They always break off at the very base where it connects to the main "trunk". It has done this 3 times already this year and it did it a couple times last year.
As I said the stalk is healthy looking and is usually 1/2 inch in diameter.
Any ideas what could be causing this? Last year we chalked it up to all the wind that we were getting but it hasn't been that windy this year when we've noticed it. |
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RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| Since you don't specify the name/type of rose, I can't be sure, but it looks to me like you have abnormally abundant thorns. If so, you have the dreaded rose rosetta disease. RRD manifests differently on different roses, but on many one gets very thick, fleshy stalks with way too many thorns. They have grown too quickly and can't support the weight. Often the green is lighter than the other stalks/canes. Those that do make it will usually start putting forth a witches broom. More photos would be helpful. If it is RRD, you must get rid of it. |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| A few of my Austins do this. Princess Anne is the bigest culpret. I think it is just the weight of the flowers and a weakness at the base. I have no first hand knowledge of RRD. Somme varieties seem worse than others. Often though I have been able to stake them and they survive long enough to bloom at which point I cut them back. |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| I've had roses do this. It's very frustrating. I think the canes grow too fast and get too big before their base can get woody and they easily separate from the base. If you catch it early you can tape up the cane so it's supported and doesn't fall off. As long as it hasn't detached completely, it should be ok. |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| I've had this happen, too -- It's one of the reasons I'm glad not to be growing many budded roses. I don't know what caused it, perhaps there are multiple things that might have caused it, but in SoCal, it was not RRD. Jeri |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| How about too much nitrogen? |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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- Posted by hoovb z9 Southern CA (My Page) on
Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 16:17
| Maybe stake the next newly emerging cane and see what happens? |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| Thanks for the pointers. These are Hybrid Tea roses not sure of the exact name. I guess there are two doing it now so it sure could be RRD spreading. I'll do some more investigation on both plants this weekend and see if there are other symptoms of the RRD. I am reading that as long as you remove the entire plant roots and all and don't allow any root pieces to regrow that we can replant healthy ones there. Any opinions on that? I'll post more pics after this weekend's inspection. |
RE: Whole Healthy Stalks Fall Off our Rose Bush
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| If you're very concerned about RRD, you might want to post pics in a separate post with Rose Rosette Disease in the title of the post, that way you can gather as much information as possible from the Forum, about this. |
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