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1. I havelost a few rose bushes due to root rot - I believe - the stems became brown and leaves dropped. Blooms stopped and now there is nothing left but a brown/black stem. Will this rose bush come back next year? 2. I have also lost 2 carnation plants and a pestemon plant. Both have turned yellow and look kind of sickly. Is this root rot also? We've had quite a bit of rain this year. Help!! Plants: 8 | From: Connecticut | Registered: Aug 2003
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Hi Peony, Sorry I'm late on the Welcome to the Garden Helpers Forum, It's been crazy this week.....Just wanted to say Welcome Aboard!!! Glad to have you here. Hope you'll alot of info here and I know you'll find lots of great gardeners to help you and to chat with. They are alot of fun!! I'm not as knowledgable on root rot, It's hard to say, with all this extra rain everyone's been getting. Usually roses like deep waterings, but your plant maybe sitting in an area where it either didn't drain fast, or a low part of you property. As for it coming back, maybe if it was mine and I was wondering, I might dig it up and inspect it...especially if it didn't do good where it sat, I'd probly pull it out and relocate it to say the least. Check the color of the roots, brown and mushy usually mean rot, but there might be some part that is salvagable???????? Clean it up, water the dirt off or soak for a few minutes, then inspect. Go from there, if some parts are white and firm, replant and hey, ya never know!!! I have the yellowing on my cherry tree, one strip up to the top, like some one spray painted a line??? I'm curious too, but we've gotten alot of rain, hardly no sunshine on those days, then it gets real hot and real sunny and sorches stuff... so, it's tramatic for plants. After all it we get hot, we go in side with a fan or AC and cool off, come back out side when the sun is lower, they can't. Same for water conditions, they're stuck in one place. Stress is a prominent factor. Again, I'm not expert. ????? Hard to say, maybe someone else will stop by with a helping hint. Hope any of this info helps!! Weezie
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can you see any damage on any of the stems healthy or brown.?like cuts or nicks?
also sometimes you can have a cane be brown but higher up a green cane will emerge& grow and bloom.I have 23 roses(actually 23& a 1/4...hubby mowed over it...poor thing)I have 2 hybrid teas that have some brown cane scattering but are not in the main cane.
as a last resort can use some mancozeb& make a paste and scrape an area on brown cane and apply this on the scrape....but I hate chemicals& would only do on a prized rose that would be hard to replace.
from what you've said would guess is a type of canker on your rose.is a fungas.can be caused by water splashing up or is in soil or a bug from another plant brought it.if is a stem canker plant may survive but look shabby unless can shape up well.I could help ya TONS if had a pic! also when ya do any clipping in your yard should use bleach solution or rubbing alchoal on your cutters.HT roses are more common for this problem but that don't mean the ramblers won't get it ethier.or the flora whatcha ma call ums(I don't grow them)
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I had a lot of problems with root and crown rot a while back. Check below the graft union and see if the crown is soft or rotted. generally if you have root rot you'll have crown rot also. The problem I found was poor drainage. I got a lot of compost and spaded it into the soil.After I did this a few times I finally got rid of my rot problem. Also if you don't get rid of it, it will spread to other plants thru the soil.
Good Luck, Gene
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