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Help! Save my rose plant
emmaharris6
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I need advice please!! I have an indoor rose plant. There seem to be lots of tiny white bugs on it & they are killing it!! They seem to make what looks like webs between branches & cover the plant with themselves! I have looked at all the bug sprays but can only find spray for red spider mite which seem to be the size of these things but mine are white & it hasn't worked!! I spray water on them which works only for them to return days later. Would really like some advice or info on how to get rid of these things from my lovely rose plant!!
thank you
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I'm sorry, but don't grow it indoors. Roses really don't like it, much preferring good light and a flow of air that indoors just can't provide. However, bugs, probably aphids, really love the warm environment and proliferate rapidly. Take it outside and give it a good hose down and tidy up, then consider a sheltered spot outside. It won't like a frost, being greenhouse grown and protected, so you will have to protect it this winter and then bring it out for the spring.
H-C
Emma there's no such thing as an indoor rose. They're just miniture roses grown in hothouses and sold to the unsuspecting by supermarkets. As HC has said get it outside and let the elements get to it. You may have red spider mite and white fly neither of them will like the cool nights.