Re: E-Rase

**"Mary Dubiel" dubielm23@hotmail.com>**

Hi Amy,

I just talked about a similiar problem with my plants.  Myra Williams had 
some good advise in her e-mail message on what she does with mildew 
problems.  Maybe you can check out what she had to say too.

Mary

>From: Amy E Hughes <a.e.hughes@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: rose-list@mallorn.com
>To: <rose-list@mallorn.com>
>Subject: [Rose-list] E-Rase
>Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 09:15:26 -0400
>
>Hi all,
>
>So pleased to see so much activity on this list...I thought I would jump 
>in,
>too, with a question that's been nagging at me all summer.
>
>I'm in Brooklyn, NY, gardening in containers on my roof deck. I think it's
>Zone 5 thanks to the fact that it's windy up there and exposed. I have 5
>potted patio and shrub roses (Tequila Sunrise, Pretty Jessica, Abbye de
>Cluny, Happy Child, Dr. Robert Korns) as well as three "groundcover" roses
>in window boxes (Carpet of Color, Green Snake, Sun Runner).  I planted all
>of these in May this year, with the exception of Abbye de Cluny, which went
>in in July.
>
>I am a beginner, and my greatest amazement is how very different each rose
>is. Tequila Sunrise has taken off like wildfire, profusely blooming and
>getting bush-like, whereas Pretty Jessica, though healthy, is very small --
>yet put out 5 or so hefty blooms despite its size. Happy Child is growing
>pretty upright but has hardly ever bloomed; and when it does, its stems
>can't seem to support the flowers, they bend and sag. I was hoping
>rose-growing would be a science, but alas, it does not seem to be!
>
>But the saddest thing is that one shrub, Dr. Robert Korns, has constant
>powdery mildew. A rose created by Kleine Letunick (Lyda Rose) named after 
>my
>uncle, I've had it for 4 years or so. The poor thing survived in a small 
>pot
>on my window sill for the first three yrs until I moved into my current
>apartment and gave it the big pot and outside spot it deserves. However, as
>soon as I planted it outside, the mildew started. It breaks my heart.
>Sometimes, so many of the leaves are infected I have to strip it almost
>completely and cut back some canes. I have not seen it on any of the new
>plants except a little bit at one point on Carpet of Color.
>
>I started spraying a no-name brand solution on it, but that didn't really
>work. Then I saw an ad in "American Rose" for E-Rase, a jojoba oil-based
>solution. That has worked sometimes, and other times not. I was wondering 
>if
>anyone here has ever used it or know someone who does? What has been your
>experience with it, and what's it's reputation? What other fungicides are
>particularly good against pervasive powdery mildew?
>
>Thanks, and please email me if there are other NYC container roof-gardeners
>out there! (It's a tough and unique challenge.)
>
>-Amy Hughes
>
>
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