SCG

SCG

Oh ... Are roses in general leafing out where you are? IOW --- are your new roses the only laggards?

I guess I am trying not to be premature in calling but I am also worried because, for me, this was a major purchase.

Is there anything I can do for the ones that seem to be regressing to help them? I would rather save these than ask for warranty.

Thanks

SCG

I hope I am being anxious and premature.... Thanks again

SCG

I would want to bite the bullet and cut off the truly dead wood, but I would run that by the supplier, before I did it.

See what they say.

We once bought a rose from Hortico, which arrived with four canes . . . ALL of which had been tied up so tightly that they had snapped right off the bud union.

We notified Hortico immediately. Hortico's response to our complaint was: "We would never do that." IOW, they refused to do anything about it.

That was, of course, their privilege. BUT they lost a customer. Permanently.

SCG

For what it's worth, I have to trim back most of the canes on most of the bareroot grafted canes I buy no matter how good the condition they arrive in. I watch them carefully for the kind of browning or blackening at the ends like your photos, then trim it back to beyond the brown at least an inch or two, and sanitize the pruners with each cut. I've posted about this before, and it's probably a case of verticilium wilt in the canes. The bareroot roses that survive are the ones that put out their own new canes - rarely are these much more than stubs of the canes they started with. Almost all of my bareroots planted in April look just like my band plants planted in May because of this, and they take equally long to come back from the planting and take off. Just letting you know it's not you - it might have a contribution from something in your climate or soil, and possibly a damaged or weak plant to start with that had the pathogen already in the cane.

Hope this helps. I agree that you should contact the company about these and give them the chance to respond.

Cynthia

I contacted the vendor via email last night and they promptly phoned me this morning. They suggested I do exactly as Cynthia posted. I am to get back to them in three weeks and if things haven't improved they are willing to credit or refund me.

Thanks for the help all.

SCG

Thanks for the tips. I failed to mention that the vendor also suggested feeding them. The roses are planted in what I would consider a sandy loam (original soil) mixed with topsoil, composted bark mulch and compost all roto tilled together. The rocks you see are the roses that are planted right on the edge of the soil change to hard pan, within one foot it changes to stuff you can barely dig with a machine. The light grey material is actually the beginning of my mulch program. I layered multiple layers of newspaper then put about an inch of this composted bark mulch mix on top and am anxiously awaiting delivery of 4 truck loads of bark mulch.

On a positive note when I went out yesterday to cut back the roses Rugelda had pushed out about half a dozen buds!

Thanks again, I appreciate all the help and advice you wise folks give.

SCG

Feed them WHAT? God knows, you should not give them anything to push topgrowth at the expense of root growth.

Feeding won't help until the plants are leafed out. Fuel for growth comes only from sugars and starches that are manufactured in photosynthesis and stored in the tissues. Plant "nutrients" are just raw materials for this process and cannot make a failing or dormant plant grow. So, don't fertilize.

Yes, it was discussed to only feed these struggling roses a very weak solution. I feel it was more of a Hail Mary than anything else.

Lets hope that a little sunshine on the weekend will spark some of these plants to grow. I am truly amazed at how fast Rugelda is now leafing out.

SCG