Home Decor: How to Plant a Roses

Roses is a flowering plant that growing as an ornamental tree. This plant are very beautiful with have its own “scent”, but the plant is very susceptible to disease.

So, this is a disease that regularly attacks rose tree:

1) Thrip - Fine ticks that suck the nutrients of the tree. The symptoms can be seen as a defect (curly) in shoots, flowers, and gently retard flowering shoots like 'burn', and then the roses will slowly dying.

Disease control - It can be controlled by spraying “water-based pest control” (like mosquito spray) once a week or until the symptoms of the disease decreased.

2) Blackspot – It is a common disease in the rainy season. The disease is more dangerous than thrip. Fungal spores germinate when the leaves or stems over wet.

At the level of serious attack, we must pruned the roses leaves, flowers and branches. Then burn it or pack it in a plastic bag and thrown it away from the planting area.

How to plant roses in the pot or vase:

1) Find the rose seedlings in nursery like what you really want.

2) Choose a pot that is larger than the original pot of the seedlings.

3) Use soil mixture of compost.

4) During the process of transfer to larger pots. Do not dispose the soil that attached to the root. This is to make sure the rose tree can easily adapt the new environment in the new pot.

No need to add extra fertilizer, because the medium we use in the pot already has a compost / organic manure. 

5) After the roses begin to grow, approximately 2 weeks from the date of planting. Use rose fertilizer NPK (18-30-16). Put 2 tablespoons of fertilizer around the stem of roses and moisten the soil with water.

6) Use organic fertilizers such as chicken dung or shell shrimp 1 times in 2 weeks.

7) Make sure the roses tree get enough sunlight for at least 6 hours a day.

8) Water the roses tree 2 times a day, morning and evening.

To control insects in a natural way and cheaper. Use a mixture of water, garlic, cooking oil and soap. Use a ratio of 1:1:1:1. Spray on leave and stem once a week.

Roses EXTRA care tips:

1) Roses tree require a soil mixture of compost that contains coconut fiber, sand, husk and baked soil.

2) When watering, do not give too much water on the leaves and stems, too moist tree can cause a variety of diseases attact.

3) Use banana peel as a organic manure because the banana peel contains potassium that may help roses to grow.

Banana peel in small cut can be placed in pots or planted in the pots.

4) Shrimp and crab shell also can be used as an additive high macro & micro nutrients for roses.

5) Most importantly, tree roses that have “completed flowering season” should be pruned to encourage flowering again.

Pinch method on the new rose stalk is a method that can increase the production of more flowers.

6) If the leaves look yellow and eventually fall out. That’s mean, the roses get not enough water.  So, the proper way to watering can avoid this situation.