America Climbing Rose Dying?

[nellie923]

I should say up front that we have had extremely hot weather here in Arkansas, with many days in the late 90s to over 100. My climbing America rose is not doing well at all. In face it looks much worse today than it did yesterday, and we have been relatively mild for the past couple of days. Most of the leaves have dropped on one side (see pics). The right side looks ok. I don't know if this is due to extreme heat or something else. Could I have overwatered it? Underwatered it? Any advice appreciated!

 

[Meadowlark]

Howdy again @nellie923 It has been unmercifully hot for roses and mine are suffering as a result.

It looked to me like in picture 4 that plant is in a pot that restricts the plants' ability to take up water and that is especially problematic in this heat. It looks to me that it needs a larger pot. That would definitely help enabling the plant to adsorb water and would give the roots which are probably very tight in there some room to function better.

Dormancy is the best time to do that not now...but if you find the water just running through the pot and/or roots growing out the drainage holes you may have to take action. I wouldn't repot now but if you have to you have to. The worst of summer is quickly getting behind us and better temps will be coming soon.

 

[nellie923]

In retrospect, I can see that planting a climber in a pot is not a good idea. How on earth would I possibly report i without cutting it all back?

 

[Meadowlark]

In retrospect, I can see that planting a climber in a pot is not a good idea. How on earth would I possibly report i without cutting it all back?

I can make suggestions based on my experience:

1) remove all the long bare brown stems with no leaves and any stems that snap easily. Cut them all the way down to where you hit living wood.

2) cut the stems with only a few leaves at the top down about 1/3 to where the stem is clearly green and firm.

3) repot w/fresh soil, water deeply, keep in bright shade for 5–7 days, then move back to full sun.

Roses are tough but it is a bad time of year. To me, it just depends on how badly the restrictions are hurting the plant and I just can't evaluate that from here...but you can.

 

[Sheal]

I presume the rose is standing on a veranda? The rose is a climber so could you not plant it in the ground at the base of the veranda and train it upwards?

 

[nellie923]

That is a good idea. I will check it out!