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2014 Growth Diary – Twelve Weeks

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It’s time again for my 2014 growth diary. These are the photos taken on Aug 3 2014, which is twelve weeks or three months since I’ve planted the roses.

Bareroot Roses

Most of the bareroot roses growth are showing black spot diseases, probably because there’s not enough roots to support the leaves that have sprouted out very early.

Nahema is now the only bareroot rose with still clean leaves; this rose has also grown out more noticeably than the others.

Nahema 12 weeks growth

Nahema with very clean leaves.

Firefighter, Soeur Emmanuelle and Jubilee Celebration have not grown that much and are also showing black spot. Firefighter has started to drop leaves too. One good thing about this is that I now see a dieback that I will have to prune out.

I won’t be spraying them with anything as I want to see what will happen.

Firefighter 12 weeks growth

Firefighter losing leaves

Soeur Emmanuelle

Soeur Emmanuelle – blackspot starting

Jubilee Celebration 12 weeks

Jubilee Celebration 12 weeks

Potted Roses

The potted roses have been doing pretty well especially Valencia as sunlight is now reaching it.

Honey Bouquet 12 weeks

Honey Bouquet 12 weeks

Valencia 12 weeks

Valencia 12 weeks

The next update will be their growth after another 4 weeks.

2014 Pruning Diary – Five Weeks

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I’ve decided to keep track of the growth progress of my existing roses that I pruned and create a 2014 pruning diary for them. These are the photos taken last August 3 2014, five weeks since I’ve pruned the roses.

Pope John Paul II

First up is Pope John Paul II. As of this photos, I’ve counted twenty-seven buds that have sprouted out. I repeat, that 27 sprouted buds in total for this rose. Well it helps that I left 8 stems when I pruned it. This is one rose that I’m excited to see in bloom.

Pope John Paul II - 5 weeks after pruning

Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II - 5 weeks after pruning

Another angle of Pope John Paul II

Just Joey

Next up is Just Joey which has thirteen buds sprouting.

Just Joey - 5 weeks

Just Joey

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

This rose has sixteen buds out now and what’s even better is that the buds are in all levels of the stems. Up and down it has buds which will hopefully mean a fuller look plant later on with blooms up and the the plant.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch - 5 weeks

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

Baronne Edmond De Rothschild

This one has the least buds so far with only eleven, hopefully it will have some more later on as otherwise it will look kind sparse as this rose is the one that I have with the widest shaped structure.

Baronne Edmond De Rothschild

Baronne Edmond De Rothschild

William Shakespeare 2000

Last we have a David Austin rose which has thirteen buds all at the very tips of the stems. However, what I can’t capture here are numerous pinpoint swellings all over the stems that will hopefully sprout out later on.

William Shakespeare 2000

William Shakespeare 2000

The next update will be their growth after another 2 weeks.