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Initial post 10 AUG 24 by Nace
Acquired as a healthy, but less than 1 year old rooted plant this year. Planted in the ground and it had 2-3 blooms, but struggled and started to die back. Moved to a pot and it's looking much healthier with lots of new growth in <1 month. When in the ground, it was struggling wtih black spot, but after moving to the pot (the pot is sitting in the same spot where it was planted in the ground), I'm not seeing any BS (presumably because it's healthier now). The blooms it did have were small and shattered within 1-2 days, but were pretty while present. It's still very small, so I'm curious to see how it performs once more established.
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Reply #1 of 4 posted 19 JUL by AndromedaSea
How is your rose doing now?

I had a similar experience-it flourished in a pot, and then, not so much in the ground. I’ve tried a few different spots-it’s now in a location most roses would love, but it’s still not thriving. It’s only maybe 8” tall after, um, 2 or 3 years. Is it a very hungry plant?
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Reply #2 of 4 posted 20 JUL by Kim Rupert
The performance you're describing means this doesn't generate a very vigorous root system and would definitely improve if budded. Growing it in a pot would benefit it due to increased heat compared to the colder soil; better soil (potting v. garden soil) and likely more attention to its needs than it would probably get in the ground. You should try budding it and see for yourself.
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Reply #3 of 4 posted 8 AUG by AndromedaSea
Can you recommend any resources that teach how to bud? I do happen to have some Dr Huey and some multiflora I could try budding on. But I’m a bit afraid of messing it up and possibly losing my plant. :(
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Reply #4 of 4 posted 8 AUG by Kim Rupert
Will this go through?
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Reply #5 of 4 posted 8 AUG by Kim Rupert
First, you don't want to bud ON your mother plants of the root stocks. Keep them well watered to push vigorous growth. You want to root straight sections of their canes for stocks. Those are what you want to bud on. Once you have a vigorously growing mother plant of your stocks, you can root and bud as many as you want.

While you're pushing your stocks, push Blue Moon Stone. Keep it properly watered and fed, using whatever fertilizer you have the best success with. Do NOT let it flower. Keep the flower buds pinched or cut off, but leave every leaf on the plant so it keeps it well fed. By pushing growth instead of flowers, you will bring the plant into as vigorous maturity as possible in as short a period as possible. Letting it produce flowers will delay its maturity. You want strong, large buds to use so you produce stronger, more vigorous plants.

Root stocks to practice budding on using other less valuable varieties to you. Build your proficiency while your stocks and Blue Moon Stone develop into larger, more vigorous plants so when you are ready, you will have good material and skills to produce good plants.

Once you've budded a variety on a stock, if it fails and if there is room to insert another bud, you can insert another bud of the SAME variety on that stock. Budding anything else on a used stock increases the potential for you passing any plant viruses from one variety to another. Hopefully your stocks are virus indexed, tested for plant viruses and found to not be infected. If they aren't, then it's a gamble. Plants can be infected for decades before showing any symptoms. Just because you don't see symptoms does NOT mean there isn't viral infection.

Burling Leong of Burlington Roses created an article to illustrate Chip Budding. It's the easiest method of budding, requiring the least amount of skill. You will have to Google the title as the system is not allowing me to post URL's. Propagating Tree Roses by Chip Budding

I created the post on my blog to illustrate and explain Chip Budding. You can access my blog at Pushingtheroseenvelope@blogspot.com Search for Chip Budding and the article following it "It's been a good year for budding".

This post contains MANY photographs of chip budding. Hopefully it will help illustrate what you want to do.

You probably want to visit YouTube and search “Chip Budding roses” or “Budding Roses”. That will bring up many videos demonstrating how to do it.
Hopefully, this has given you some direction and ideas and pointed you where to look for more information. Don’t let it intimidate you. Have fun with it and good luck!
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Initial post 7 AUG by Kathy Strong
Rose Listing Omission

Grateful Dead rose

https://www.gratefuldeadrose.com/

Haha

New JB Williams Offering.
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 8 AUG by jedmar
J. B. Williams nursery is closed according to our information
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Initial post 7 AUG by MiGreenThumb
Zone5 seems a bit over ambitious for an estimate of hardiness when those in Z7 are reporting winter damage from the cold/damp
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 7 AUG by jedmar
There is a garden in central Iowa which reports this rose in Zone 5b
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Reply #2 of 2 posted 8 AUG by MiGreenThumb
I beg your pardon and with due respect, but "reported"?
It's time for an honest discussion.
When 'New Dawn', one of the hardiest climbers, struggles to survive in Z5b in some seasons, there's no way a Tea-Noisette is Z5b hardy in any true and accurate metric.
I've tried Mutabilis, Old Blush, Mrs. Dudley Cross, and Duchesse de Brabant in Z5b. They all froze out or were terribly dwindling. Did they suddenly become Z5 hardy because I've reported them from such an area?
Of course not!
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Initial post 7 AUG by Darrell
V.F. Lewis is mentioned under 'Mme Wagram'. V.F. Lewis died in 2006. See his book published posthumously: The Romance of the Rose: My Life with Bourbon Roses.
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