Roses often get sick and are hard to grow well? An experienced florist shares tips to help them easily shake off diseases

As the pace of life keeps speeding up, many people grow a few pots of flowers at home. In their spare time, watering the flowers and applying fertilizer is both relaxing and pleasing to the eye. And the rose is a flower that many people rather like. When it blooms, it is delicate and charming, with a wide range of colors, and it is fairly easy to grow, so it is deeply loved by many people. However, many people have also found when growing roses that various pests and diseases often appear, catching them off guard. And an experienced florist gave me a few tips, so the roses at home have since stayed far away from the torment of disease.

Black rot

Black rot is a disease that often appears on roses. At the beginning, we see some small black spots. If these small spots are not prevented and treated in time, they will grow bigger and bigger, and even the whole rose plant will have them. By this time the rose is mostly already in bad shape, and afterward it will slowly drop its leaves, and finally the rose will be tormented by black rot until it cannot live.

In fact, many people do not know that black rot in roses can be prevented in advance. Before a rose gets black rot, you can spray it with zineb once every half month. A rose sprayed with zineb this way can largely prevent black rot from appearing. If black rot does appear, do not panic. You can remove the leaves of the rose that are already diseased, then spray it every day with a disinfecting solution such as carbendazim, and after some time it will be fine.

Thrips

Thrips are a relatively common pest of roses. If thrips are present, they cause great harm to the rose, making it wilt and lose vigor, and in severe cases they also affect the rose's growth.

Thrips can also be prevented through routine prevention. For example, you can spray the rose with imidacloprid, generally once every half month, preferably in the evening. If you are treating thrips, spray some imidacloprid on the rose every day, and after a while they can be eliminated.

Powdery mildew

Powdery mildew is also a common disease of roses. When a rose gets powdery mildew, the situation that appears is somewhat similar: you will see white powder on the leaves, and if it is relatively severe, the whole leaf is covered in white powder, so the rose cannot grow well.

If powdery mildew appears on the leaves, you can spray zineb on the leaves. Because powdery mildew makes things a bit sticky, you can also add a little dish soap or the like to the sprayed solution to remove it.