After flowering when it’s forming hips you need to withhold on fertilizing I think.Tonight's work: cleaning up a couple of shohin.
I was hoping this little wild rose clump would have hips on it at this time of year, but they all dropped after flowering. I'll change the fertilising regime next year to see if that makes a difference.
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Thanks - how long after the hips form would you leave it before giving fertiliser? A month or so? (which would be late summer). I didn't fertilise this year until after the hips had started dropping off.After flowering when it’s forming hips you need to withhold on fertilizing I think.
it’s same for many other species that form this as they get strong from fertilizing and they discard making seeds as they are likely to survive Anywayz. Or at least that’s how I think of it.
To be honest I don’t know myself. As far as roses I go, I only have 1 which I bought a few days go but I have a nanakamado which also makes red berries after flowering and when the Tree dropped all of them I was told it’s because I fertilized to soon. i was told this is valid for other species that get berries too. Which I don’t have a lot off.Thanks - how long after the hips form would you leave it before giving fertiliser? A month or so? (which would be late summer). I didn't fertilise this year until after the hips had started dropping off.
It’s been suggested the fruit drop might have been due to potassium deficiency (I didn’t fertilise at all until after flowering), so I was planning to give it some potash in the spring.
Shot of the greenhouse to make the post legal:
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