Mike's Rose Seedling Blog -- Salem, Oregon: October 2018

Today I am re-naming my REHAB rose bed, because the six 'Voodoo' rose seedlings exiled there have made a sterling recovery. From now on, I'll just call it my "Auxiliary Rose Bed #1". To recap, I grew these roses from seed, and for years they had stunted growth, probably because of tree root competition in their previous locations. Their parent rose was the hybrid tea rose named 'Voodoo', which I just let be open pollinated to obtain seeds.

It turns out that the REHAB bed also was (and still is) plagued by tree roots, namely from the big cedar tree on adjacent property. Again, the seedlings failed to show any vigor. Then around 3 months ago I gave the bed a good ration of Milorganite and then followed up the last 1½ months with a once-a-day foliar spraying of SUPERthrive (at twice the suggested dosage), and the results have been impressive, to say the least.

This is how the "Auxiliary Rose Bed #1" looked today, shown from two perspectives:

Photo taken: October 3, 2018

These rose bushes are definitely on the road to recovery. Below are photo-pairs for each of the six seedling roses. You can tell from their "birthdays" that we are talking about 7 to 10 year-old roses here. Many thanks to the generous folks at befunky.com for their collage making tools. I chose the most elementary "collage" format for the side-by-side presentations.