To get Good growth and more flowers from the rose plants, feeding the rose plant with fertilizer is an important task otherwise for some cases plants will grow bushy without flowers. Or we don’t get even flowers or plant growth. So it’s better to feed the plant with fertilizer to improve the growth of the plant and to make it more blooming. It also helps to withstand insect and disease problems.
The best homemade Rose Fertilizer is Alfalfa meal, which has good overall organic amendments and results in faster, vigorous growth and makes plants more bloom. Other homemade fertilizers are coffee, tea extracts, Epsom salts, washed rice water, eggshells, vegetable or fruits waste, banana peel fertilizers also have good nutrients for the rose plants.
If you are using fertilizer for containers, you need to fertilize more often than the planted on the ground as the nutrients go out quickly due to more frequent watering.
Nutrients that Roses or any plant Need
The major nutrients are divided into NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium).
Nitrogen
Nitrogen helps more in leaf growth. Rose’s ability to make flowers resides in leaves, healthy foilage, or leaves results in more flowers. Too much nitrogen will give more leaves and fewer flowers.
Fewer Nitrogen results in yellow leaves, less growth in smaller blooms.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus promotes healthy root development and more flower production. Fewer phosphorus results in leaf drops, weal flower stems, and buds that won’t open.
Potassium
Potassium also referred to as potash, helps to recover the stress by, may disease damage by insects or others, or by harsh weather conditions. Fewer Potassium results in yellow leaf margins, weak flower stems, and poor buds development.
rose plants also need other nutrients to thrive, micronutrients like calcium, magnesium, sulfur, boron, iron, manganese, and zinc.
I recommend using organic homemade fertilizer as it will work on improving soil organically by worms(Vermicompost), organic materials like animals, or plants that are better for the environment. These have so many different nutritional advantages and can be used to feed to your rose plant (also support beneficial microbes).
1. Alfalfa Meals
Alfalfa has good overall organic amendments and results in faster, vigorous growth and makes plants more bloom. This is one of the most commonly used for my rose plants.
2. Compost
Compost promotes the overall growth of plants, helping roses to be more resilient to pests and diseases. Mix into the soil while planting the plant or apply 1-2 layers each spring around the base of established plants.
We can buy the compost from online stores like amazon or offline in nurseries.
3. Manure
Manure can also be mixed with soil while planting the plants or once it is well established we can mulch the layers of manure so that nutrients will reach roots when we water the plants.
It is better to manure in the spring and make sure manure is well-aged so that it won’t burn your rose plants.
4. Bone Meal
Bone meal can be applied in spring as a slow-release fertilizer for the rose plants. it will have an effect through the growing season again fall to promote root growth and for next years flowers to bloom well.
5. Kelp meal or sea weed
Kelp meal or seaweed promotes root development and boosts the plant’s immunity to pests or diseases caused by insects. This fertilizer we can use throughout the growing season.
6. Fish Fertilizer
Fish fertilizer is used with the combination of kelp meal and this encourages the plant to grow lush green. usually applied every 3 weeks to get most of it.
7. Coffee extract
The coffee extract can be used to sprinkle around the base of the plant at any time during the growing season for boosting the nitrogen. Coffee is acidic, so soil PH may be adjusted with lime or other alkaline sources.
8. Cottonseed meal
Cottonseed meal boosts overall plant health, apply only once in 6 months this is slow releasing fertilizer effect throughout the growing season. It is acidic in nature so soil PH may be adjusted with lime or other alkaline sources.
9. Epsom salts
Epsom salts promote bloom color and green foliage, more vigorous growth on the stem. Apply it in spring to make full use of it.
we can say Epsom salt is not alone fertilizer, we can give Epsom salt with fertilizer to enhance the nutrients for the plant.
Epsom salt is an easily available house and its common name is magnesium sulfate. It has Magnesium and sulfur in it.
Epsom salt helps the plant to increase chlorophyll production and helps to restore green leaves (If leaves are suffering from other problems, dry).
How to use Epsom salt for Rose Plants?
Step 1: Mix well with two tablespoons of Epsom salt to one gallon of water.
Step 2: Wait until the soil of the Rose plant is fully dry.
Step 3: can also be applied as a spray to the Rose plant or to leaves directly.
Step 4: Pour the mixture gently into the base of the Rose plant.
Step 5: Apply every month until early fall.
10. Tea powder as fertilizer for Rose plant
Used Tea powder is also one of the good fertilizers for the Rose Plant. After using Tea powder for making tea. you can apply that to the Rose plants to get good results. It has 4 % nitrogen along with phosphorus and other micronutrients that benefit the soil for plant growth.
How to use Tea powder as fertilizer for Rose plants?
Step 1: Don’t throw away after using Tea powder in the kitchen.
Step 2: Wash the Tea powder thoroughly before using it as fertilizer this is a must.
Step 3: Apply to the top layer of the soil without disturbing the roots in the soil.
Step 4: This can be applied every month to boost the Rose plant growth.
11. Rice water as fertilizer for Rose plant
This is one of the common kitchen wastes found in every home, This can be perfect as the fertilizer for the Rose plant. After you wash your rice leftover water contains starches and even good minerals.
Can contains also macronutrients like NPK that help to grow Rose plant well. It is known that unpolished rice contains good rich in vitamin B. This may also stimulate the new growth of roots in the rose plant.
How to use Rice water as fertilizer for Rose plants?
Step 1: When washing the rice in the kitchen, don’t waste the washed water, keep it for your Rose plant.
Step 2: Pour the stored water into the base of the Rose plant.
Step 3: You can also apply rice water instead of regular watering to the plant. This will surely help plants to grow faster and stronger.
12. Eggshells as fertilizer for Rose plant
This is one of the best fertilizers for the Rose plant at home. The crushed eggshells are very rich in calcium and very important for any plant to provide nutrients for the plant. Calcium makes the plant grow vigorously and helps to grow a good quantity and quality of green foilage in plants.
How to use Eggshells for Rose plants?
Step 1: Keep the two to three eggshells in the zip-lock package.
Step 2: Crush the eggshells to the smallest possible.
Step 3: Sprinkle the crushed eggshells on the soil of the Rose plant.
Step 4: Mix the top layer of the soil (1 inch) without damaging the roots of the Rose plant.
13. Vegetable Waste or fruit waste
This is also one of the common thing vegetable waste or fruit waste which is very rich in micro and macronutrients, that helps to grow fast for the Rose plant.
You don’t even need to compost them, just chop them to small pieces and burry them in the soil near plant. They will release nutrients as they broken over time.
you can even use the pulp of those waster and give them to plants to increase the rate of growth. This is usually called liquid fertilizer.
There is also another way to use this if you have good sun shine. you can dry them, powder them , and can give it to plants.
For any fertilizer give it in small quantity, observe the plant is it ok for few days, later you can give more. Dont apply it in large quantity at one go.
14. Banana peel fertilizer for rose plant
This most common asked question can we use banana peel fertilizer for rose plant. We can use this as same as vegetable waste, fruits waste , flower waste.
Banana fertilizer can be used as liquid fertilizer by keeping banana fertilizer in a jar for weeks and pouring them into the rose plant.
we can chop the banana peel into small pieces and bury them in the soil near the plant so that they will release nutrients to the plant.
We can also dry the banana peel and give them to plants to get good results.
Tips:
- Soil pH changes absorbtion of nutrients and should be between 6.0-7.0. Test your soil with soil testing meter to determine if its needs adjustment. Then you can choose right amendment to level the pH level
- I always water before and after fertilizing . This will deliver the nutrients to root zone effectively especially plants will not go into shock or prevent from root burn .
- Apply insecticides or pesticides in the morning in the day to allow leaves to dry out to help to preven disease.
- Don’t apply more quantity fertilizer thinking that your plant will super grow, but this will make the plant burn.
- If you are applying any inorganic fertilizer check the label for quantity and how to apply fertilizer.
FAQ:
Used tea powder for rose plants?
Used Tea powder is also one of the good fertilizers for the Rose Plant. After using Tea powder for making tea. you can apply that to the Rose plants to get good results. It has 4 % nitrogen along with phosphorus and other micronutrients that benefit the soil for plant growth.
How to make fertilizer for rose plant at home?
The best homemade Rose Fertilizer is Alfalfa meal, which has good overall organic amendments and results in faster, vigorous growth and makes plants more bloom. Other homemade fertilizers are coffee, tea extracts, Epsom salts, washed rice water, eggshells, vegetable or fruits waste, banana peel fertilizers also have good nutrients for the rose plants.
Homemade fertilizer for Rose plant in india?
The best homemade Rose Fertilizer is Alfalfa meal, which has good overall organic amendments and results in faster, vigorous growth and makes plants more bloom. Other homemade fertilizers are coffee, tea extracts, Epsom salts, washed rice water, eggshells, vegetable or fruits waste, banana peel fertilizers also have good nutrients for the rose plants.
Final Thoughts:
After Pruning the rose plant Fertilizing is necessary for your rose plant. Are you able to get a good number of flowers and good plant growth? Shoot me in the comments. Happy Reading!
