Have I made it worse? Planted Sweet Chariot outside

16 years ago

I was intrigued with having minature roses in pots on my open porch. Sweet Chariot was my hearts desire and she spent the first year in a 12" pot before I learned that was too small. The next year she got planted up in a 24" pot. She spent the summer on the west end of my porch and was gorgeous! Beautiful foliage, no blackspot, deep mauvy lavender flowers and wonderful scent. Last year she got too big, became a nuisance trying to get around on the porch and was moved to the courtyard between buildings in full sun. She didn't like it and sulked, got blackspot and needed constant watering and didn't have the fragrance or color of flowers she had in part sun. This year she came out of the winter storage building a vision of good health and flushed to a huge 3 ft tall by 4 ft wide! But now she is in a steady decline. She has had a foliar spray/drench of fish and kelp and a top dressing of Rosetone in April. She was sprayed with fungicide for blackspot same rate as last year and within a day almost all her leaves have turned yellow. The flowers are tiny, deformed and very light pink/white. I made a last ditch effort to save her and put her outside in a prepared hole that was for another rose. I watered her deeply and am keeping my fingers crossed as it is 90 deg here already - not really the time to be planting out roses anymore. I have two other minatures in pots new this year. Sun Sprinkles looks like it is going to be a giant and I am thinking of putting it in the ground now before something happens to it. I will keep Stars and Stripes in the pot for now as I am out of space. Am I doing the right thing?

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lesdvs9
16 years ago
I'm surprised someone hasn't answered you. Sweet Chariot will do great in the ground. It was meant to be a large rose which is why it kept outgrowing the pots. You should find it responding quickly unless you waited too long. Was it rootbound? Or overwatered? You might put some B1 on it for transplant shock since it's already stressing if you have some. I make a habit of planting and transplanting using that and it seems to help. Did you water well before you sprayed it with the fungicide? If you're going to plant anything else I'd do it before it gets any hotter and then watch the moisture and keep them well watered until they establish.
You should be seeing some difference in Sweet Chariot within a few days I'd think and new growth soon and be seeing your purple buds again after that again.
How is it now?
mdseagull
16 years ago
I had my Sweet Chariot in a pot as well for three years. It was getting a bit scraggly, so decided to put it in the ground this year. Not much from it yet, but keeping an eye on it to see how it will do.
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Trish4663
12 years ago
I have a friend that is willing to share her Sweet Chariot Rose with me. I need to know how to do this. Can you re grow them by a clipping or do I need some of the root?
seil zone 6b MI
12 years ago
You can root cuttings. There are many methods to do this. Do a search on here and you'll find intructions on how to do it.
kittymoonbeam
12 years ago
Sweet Chariot is fine in the ground. It spreads and cascades in a pot and grows more upright in the ground. Be sure to mulch and in a few years you should have a sturdy robust rose that blooms continually.

By the way, I heard that rose got its name from the hybridizer looking up at a row hanging baskets of it gently swaying in the wind with the flowers hanging down and perfuming the air. Is this true?