One of my Desert Roses was started from a cutting and it used to bloom several times throughout the summer, but last summer it developed only a few blooms and they dropped off before opening. It's about 4-5 years old.
My Desert Rose started from seed has a nice caudex but has never bloomed. It's about 3 years old.
I'm reading different things about how often to fertilize, etc. What say you?
Anonymous
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well here's what I do.
when ever it blooms, and the rose starts to die you should snap off the rose. like there should be a little knot on the green part of the stem and you should break it off from there.
this helps the rose bush so that it can grow back twice as many roses as before. also you should add fertilizers to the soil around the plant. there are sertian fertilizers that are made spacificly for rose plants.
hope that helps you!
monica a
Here are all 5 of my Desert Roses seedlings are the 4 small ones still growing tall daily I didn't want to cut down till maybe next year trunks aren't fat enough I don't think??? And the big all green one is doing just fine has a lot of green leaves I put directly in sun and leaves start to turn yellow too much sun right? I water 3-4 times in summer and in winter I water 1-2 times depends on the cold or how much sun there is in the day time. I do give it hydroponics vitamins in the summer to help with the trunks it did help my seedlings a lot too the trunks were skinny and with the vitamins they got a little thicker. I only had the big green one bloom once last year when I bought it and since then it hasn't bloomed. I just transferred them to their new pots this fall in October and since then they just keep getting taller and more leaves I also pruned back a lot in different spots and use gloves I had to find out the hard way I got a really bad stomach ache like I had food poisoning and come to find out Desert Roses are poisonous :( Keep all pets and small children away from it these are not to be taken lightly. I love my desert roses I have given away 3 already just waiting to make them stronger before I give away to whom I promised I just hope that they all take well care of all these can grow past 150 years of age if well taken care of and pricing on them can get large if they are big and strong and bloom lots. I will enjoy my 2 and pass them down to family to family till they no longer want to grow I just want to see it grow bigger than me :)
veldkamp
My Desert Rose
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Fertilize every six months, water continuously, and make sure that you're misting. This assumes that you're dead-heading. Maybe you need to try a different type of plant food--I love miracle grow. Check with your local Rose Society, or go to americanrosesociety.org.
Anonymous
they decide for finished solar and temps of eighty tiers to flower, can no longer tolerate under 50 tiers. pass dormant in fall and iciness whilst temps and sunlight hours fall, shrink watering for the time of dormancy. Sap is poisonous.