chelle said:Hi, Liza.to ATP!
Your rose is likely drowning. We want these rose transplants to grow new roots quickly to become more self-sufficient. Your plant can't do that if it's always wet. When you move it, do move it into a sunny spot, water it in well (to the point that water sits on top for say, 5 minutes or so and then drains away, then just leave it be. Its roots will want to travel downward and outward in its future quests for water, but it will only do that if you let that top soil dry out. If after a few weeks you've had no rain and the plant looks wan with drooping leaves in the evening, then water deeply. You can add some compost and mix it with your native soil at planting time, but your plant is likely so stressed now that adding lots of nutrients at this time might just finish it off. I'd venture to guess that it needs time to recover and settle in a bit first before you feed it.
Hope this helps.
Thank you Chelle, please bear with me because i want to make sure i understood everything perfectly clear before i touch my iceberg rose again.. I know i read that it is not the season to transplant roses at this time, but if i leave it there, then it will surely die.. So, after i dig a hole for it, don't mix the soil with the miracle gro garden soil and/ or the supersoil enrich planting compost? Just use the dirt that i dug from the soil? what about the spraying of the ultra green plant starter? don't do that either?
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