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'Tropicana' rose Reviews & Comments
Discussion id : 69-180
most recent 2 JAN 13 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 2 JAN 13 by davidmrqtt
I have found Tropicana to be very hardy and vigorous - it seems especially cold-hardy. It has good disease resistance. It is frequently described as fragarant, but mine depended on weather and season.
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Discussion id : 9-876
most recent 16 OCT 12 SHOW ALL
 
Initial post 29 AUG 05 by smoner4
Does anyone have experience with this rose in the shade?
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Reply #1 of 4 posted 7 SEP 05 by The Old Rosarian
Some beautiful old roses have become weak from constant propagation and Tropicana is one of them as now this rose is very prone to blacks spot ( unless you spray weekly) As most roses will complain in the shade and not grow well, I think you will find that Tropicana will not do well and be very prone to disease.
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Reply #2 of 4 posted 26 NOV 09 by John Moody
Old Rosarian I totally agree and understand what you mean by over propagating. I had the good fortune to find a 35-40 year old Peace bush and was able to send budwood to Steve Singer and he sent me back 4 very lovely new "old" bushes. My Peace roses are so much better than the modern ones you find all over the place now that you might not even realize it is a Peace rose. The colors are much more intense as is the sweet fragrance and the disease resistance is 110% better. Even this year-2009-where blackspot was so rampant my Peace roses stayed almost completely clean and were just plain gorgeous. I also have a daughter of one of these four given to me by a friend who took budwood from my new "Old" bush and budded it to multiflora. This rose too is super as well.
Now the question is WHERE CAN I FIND A TROPICANA ROSE THAT HAS NOT BEEN PROPAGATED TO DEATH?? Has anyone here on HMF got a 25-30 year old Tropicana they would be willing to send budwood from so I can get a good bush of Tropicana?? I will gladly pay for all expenses and/or do some swapping if I currently grow something you would be interested in having???
Thanks so much,
John Moody
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Reply #3 of 4 posted 15 OCT 12 by mtspace
I saw Tropicana in Somerset NJ in an AARS test garden, zone 6b. It grew a little to the west of a huge elm tree, a magnificent thing that probably cast shadow on Tropicana until about 10:00 or 11:00 each day. After that it had clear sky. My guess is that it had six or seven hours of sunlight at the peak of summer. In that garden where roses were pampered to within an inch of their lives, Tropicana was by far the worst looking hybrid tea rose: it was tall, spindly, touched by blackspot despite aggressive spraying protocols, partly defoliate, almost chlorotic: sad looking. The blossoms were faded and drab. By contrast, Peace, some eighty feet to the south and shaded by another tall elm tree by about the same amount looked great. Broadway, and Tiffany shared the same kind of light. Broadway did fine. Some years Tiffany did, too.

If I were to grow it, I'd give Tropicana as much light as possible. But I would not cut down a good elm tree to do it.
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Reply #4 of 4 posted 16 OCT 12 by RoseBlush
Steve......

I inherited a Tropicana rose when I purchased my house. Mrs. J was in her 90s, so the rose had not had good care for many years. Yes, it is virused and is growing in nutrient poor soil. My guess is that this budded rose was planted shortly after it was introduced in 1962, which makes it about 50 years old.

With rejuvenation pruning over several years, the plant has come back to its full glory. It is a vigorous and productive rose with zero disease problems in my no spray garden in the mountains of northern California. I've posted a couple of photos to the Tropicana rose page on HMF.

The blooms stand up to the high summer temps and the rose has had no die back due to the cold temps in winter. It does get full sun all day in what I call my heat pit of a rose garden and simply thrives.

For me, this is a rose that requires normal watering and feeding and is virtually a no-care rose that just keeps on keeping on.

Smiles,
Lyn
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Discussion id : 54-489
most recent 24 MAY 11 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 24 MAY 11 by monica
I purchased Tropicana last summer as a potted rose from my local nursery. It really didnt do much last year as far as blooms are concerned, It mostly took that time to grow. But this spring it has really awakened. It is loaded with buds, some are just opening and iam in love with the color and scent. The bush is starting to spread out, get a little thicknest to it, last season it was very leggy and thin. I thought omg not another All American Beauty (i shovel because it was to thin and leggy)! But i gave it time and unlike the AAB, tropicana did not disappoint me. Tropicana is hardy to zone 6 winter, it does bloom all summer into the late fall, it had flowers in mid november. It had very little die back from the winter.

I love orange/orange blend roses and this one is right up there with my wildfire, shreveport and colorifc. A must have rose.
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Discussion id : 53-026
most recent 23 MAR 11 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 23 MAR 11 by Penelope
Tropicana LOATHED the shade in my garden. I might have had 4 blooms all year. And wasn't in deep shade just definately not full sun. It kept sending out these LONG skinny stems, desperately trying to reach that sunshine. Had to move it and it is now doing well.
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