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I hve a 3 year old a miniature rose plant that is usually indoors in a pot. This year, it is not doing well. It bloomed early and put out 1 flower in spring befgore it started losing leaves.
I replanted it in a container with miracle grow with slow release fertilizer but it is just getting worse. It has just 5 yellow leaves left and the stem has also got brown spots. I had it outside for a while and I brought it back in yesterday to shade it from the sun.
Can you post some pictures? My first suspect with yellowing leaves is a watering issue (most likely overwatering, although the symptoms of underwatering are similar). If it's used to being indoors I would be careful about putting it outside--the light outside is much more intense even than a bright window indoors, so if you don't adjust it gradually to the conditions outside you can sunburn the leaves which could also contribute to the symptoms you're seeing.
The brown spots could be "black spot" disease...roses are very prone to it. I have two minature roses in pots in the garden, one has black spot a lot and the other only a little bit. I have sprayed with black spot spray but it doesn't do much, although I do think it has helped. My roses have black spot but they come back every year, plus my mam is a serious dead head-er and a serious prune-er and they plants always seem to come back each year with more and more flowers.
I do also think the yellowing leaves might be overwatering.
If the rose does loose all of it's leaves my suggestion would be to keep the "stick" and see if it grows new leaves. I have a ponsettia, my dearest mam kept moving it into the dark shade of the dark corners of the house (it was only tiny about 3" big) and needless to say it lost all of its leaves. I moved it to a North facing window and made her promise not to move it and it grew a whole load of new leaves; its now about 8" tall and about 8" wide, it's the picture of health (it only lost all of the leaves at Christmas, once it had flowered).
I lost all the leaves and the stem is all dark brown. So I don't know what pictures to post.
I took care to not water it when it is wet. But we did have a couple of heavy rains and it has also been unusually hot. So I took your advice, ecrane and brought it back in. It is now in its usual spot on the window sill and back to its old routine.
I also pruned it back to the stem up until the green base. I will keep watering it and hope that it will revive like dipsydoodle suggested.
Definitely be careful on your watering--now that it doesn't have any leaves it's not going to go through water as fast as it had before so it won't need to be watered as often, and if it was getting watered too much before then you may find you really need to cut back vs what you had been doing. If the potting soil got really soaked, you might also consider repotting in some dry soil--trim off any brown mushy looking roots when you do that. To check when it needs to be watered, you can stick your finger down a little ways into the pot and see how it feels--don't go just by looking at the surface of the soil since that can look dry but down just a little way can still be very wet.
