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Fri, Aug 10, 12 at 13:09
| OMG I was out smelling my Frau Dagmar rose on Tuesday but by Wednesday afternoon it looked like it was scorched! The foliage almost looked coppery with just a hint of green and the branched drooped to the ground. I always water at the base using a water meter first and feed it fish emulsion every 2 weeks and sea minerals from Sweet corn Organics once a week.
I bought the rose back in May so it was only about 18" tall and with sporadic blooms and good new growth. My either Frau 10 feet away is thriving so I am confused about what happened? If I prune out the old stuff will it ever come back? |
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| Rock the plant to determine whether a gopher or vole has chewed off the roots. This is the usual cause of sudden death. If so, cut the plant back, remove all foliage, pot it up, and put it in the shade while it grows some roots. |
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| Your feeding schedule seems excessive, too frequent. Is the sick one in more direct sun than the healthy one? What conditions vary between the two? I don't know where you are as you didn't indicate your location, but in this intense heat and sun many of us are enduring right now, I am NOT feeding my plants. WATER only. If the sick one gets more radiated heat from any walls or hardscape; doesn't have as good drainage, or even has too fast drainage without the waterholding capacity the other site has; if the sea minerals were more concentrated for the one than the other; the sick one required more water than the meter indicated; many different possibilities, including Michael's suggestion of gopher damage, could have burned or fried the sick one while not affecting the healthy one. You have a lot of diagnosing necessary to determine what caused it. But, whatever you do, only provide water until this awful heat subsides! Kim |
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| To die THAT fast -- I'd bet on gophers, myself. (I have seen this happen. I have seen it happen with a mature climber!) Jeri |
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| I have been having a lot of trouble with my rugosas in the heat. Lots of die-back even on the big well-established ones. Rugosas' original habitat was the northern coasts of China & Japan--rocks, sand, wind, fog. So the heat, plus too much food. They really prefer benign neglect. |
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