Miniature standard rose problem

My experiences with weed killer are that just a waft of spray on the wind often causes that kind of distorted growth, not enough to kill the plant but deform some or all the growth.

I very much doubt anyone would spray their roses with weedkiller, if you did, it would be totally dead.

Some plants are also more susceptible to damage than others, just touching say a tomato plant with herbicide on your hands if very likely to cause distorted growth and weird fruit, even storing it in a greenhouse can cause the same problems.

 

I was thinking Fungicide not weedkiller.

 

No, fungicide wouldn't do anything like that.
Herbicide is weedkiller.

 

Came on seeking advice regarding the very same issue with one of my own roses so this feed has been very helpful - thank you all.

Similarly no weedkiller anywhere near it and a cursory Google had me thinking RRD the likely culprit until realising it wasn't known in the UK.

Opted to prune back to ground level and see how it goes next year.

 

I notice it was being discussed back in 2018 on another forum.

 

Hi Steve

you have been very informative on this, which I appreciate.

I can honestly say that we do not use weed killer, but the rose is a couple of metres away from the neighbors fence, so maybe it was them.


At least we know it is not a nasty disease it has.

thanks tracy

 

Thanks. I'll just bin mine.