Hey guys, this is my first post. I have a rose flower (picture included) I don't know what type it is but i think maybe a French rose?

But anyways the flower was doing very well and after a week of not watering it the leaves started to fall. I purchased plant food and gave it some liberally, it started to sprout and thrive again. Now (3 weeks later) the leaves are starting to fall off the flower buds aren't budding anymore and so I decided to cut them off and the leaves aren't growing to their full size. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong.

I think your rose is probably looking out of the window and wishing it was in the garden. Not an ideal plant for indoors.
Plant it out now, it will become dormant and lose it's leaves. It will be happier outside.

Trish is right, roses make terrible houseplants. I'm sure you have now turned on the heat and the rose is looking outside at that cool weather. Fertilizing a sick plant is never a good idea and could possibly kill it. When you do fertilize, sometime next spring, use the fertilizer at half strength. In a pot, fertilizer has no place to go.

Roses can be kept inside as houseplants but, only if you can give it a lots of sun, a cool place to spend the winter, and force it into dormancy in December or January.

Maybe the plant started growing again because it needed water.

Hi thank you for the responses but I live in an apartment and I won't be able to plant it outside.

What I can do it put it outside the window in the cool temperature and bring it inside in the below 0 days or into the garage as I read online.

So my understanding is that will will lose all of us leaves during the winter and that doesn't mean it's dead.

As long as the stems are green, its alive.

But depending upon the type of rose it is, that container may also be WAY to small for healthy roots.

Give that rose a pot minimum 2 feet or 3/4 meter deep.
That planter is way, way, way too small.

Don't just put the pot out unprotected. The root ball will freeze and the rose will die. If possible sink the pot into the ground and mound soil up around the plant. It's going dormant so the pot will be fine now until spring. You can pot it up then. If you can't sink it in the ground put it in a garage or shed up off the ground and water it once a month all winter. Watering is very important even when the rose is dormant.

Yeah she's not liking so good. All the leaves fell off and the stem is slowly turning black from the tips. We still haven't seen freezing temperatures yet.

Update: I planted her in a 50cm diameter pot. I am planning on watering her with "plant food" and I also have used ground coffee beans I'm planning on putting over the soil.

Is this all okay?

This plant means a lot to me I carried it 25Kms through the mountains to bring it back.

Also what do you think about the stems?

Do not fertilize now. A plant under stress should not be fed. If it is a wild rose it is just unsuited for indoors. I would plant it in a public wild garden.

Mix the coffee ground INTO the soil laying on top will give you a moldy glob; Raise the rose in the pot, A LOT, you do not need more than 24 mm from soil to top edge of the pot.
Roses send roots deep and they will be circling the bottom with the less depth they have to work with.
Too many people buy a tall pot and only use one half of it.

I would trim the branches down just above a bud eye and actually only leave the four strongest.
Remove those too close together and those that grow side-ways.