APHIDS HELP !!!!!

I have tried quite a few things to get rid of aphids with no luck. I have used white oil, eco oil, aphid spray, cayenne pepper, many rose sprays (organic and poison). The hose & even yates rose spray has done nothing. Stops them for a few days then they're back.

Currently some of my roses are really getting a battering with these nasty creatures. I am assuming that when I spray them that the sprays don't affect the eggs?

I have so many roses and it became such a problem with 'Hot Chocolate' that I had to cut half of it off. It was just that bad. They must really love the heat here.

I have sprayed them now with eco oil and cayenne pepper and discovered caterpillars !!!!! Eating whole buds !!!!! And then some mildew. Which I have never had before. I have organic product for the mildew. And I am confident that I have caught and cut in half the caterpillars that I could see just on one plant.

I am going mad. Please help before I rip them all out.

PS. In previous posts I see Neptune has mentioned lime sulfur in water? Has this worked for anyone else?

Oh dear Rosy , you poor thing , i think roses are like strawberries , every goddam bug loves em , have you tried pyrithrone sprays , check out all the growers sites and see what they recommend , they are bad this year , i've got em , i've been squashing them on a daily basis , last year the ladybird bugs came along and ate them all , but too cold for them at the moment ....

rosy have you tried folimat ?? it works for my roses

Hi Jordan, yes I have tried that. It was a little expensive to buy in cans for the amount of roses I have, so I tried 2 cans and it didn't work

thats a shame rosy .. i have used it and it worked for me ? what about yates rose sheild thats suppose to be very strong .. i sell lot of it at work

Yep have tried that too .. Lol

hmmmmmm not sure what else i can recommend rosy , sorry as in my sitiwation i cant say i have had lots of aphids so far but the folimat and yates rose sheild has worked ..

It seems that even if I spray them weekly they keep coming back after a few days. In full force. I have tried everything but those little pills from Bunnings. If we didn't have so many roses I would have bought them already.

Rosy just thought of Eco-neem , its a organic product , i have it in my hand at the moment , i used it last year i think , forgot about it , read up about it , it works differently to other products ...

wish i could help rosy. i'm sorry ..i know what worked for my roses and i have over two hundred .. unless someone can recommend something else that may help

Have you ever rid them completely? I have resorted to cutting some branches off. Which is not ideal in summer.

have to say last year they were worse .. this yea so far i would say had about three roses that had few aphids on them . folimat worked .. i check my roses everyday .. and so far so good

Some roses don't get them at all. About half of my older roses are affected and the other half are ok. I just feel like I'm constantly spraying them. And I like to use organic rose oil mostly but it's not keeping them at bay.

hmmmmmmmmm i know its frustrating rosy , but dont give up , and dont cut em too hard especialy in summer

Yes I know. And I haven't. I had no other choice with one of them there was just no way I could have controlled it. Should have taken photos!

a quick question rosy , is the place next to u grow roses ?? and if so are they looked after ?

Nope no roses. We are on a corner block so there's only road.

okay no probs , reason why i asked .. the people next door to me have about 6 bushes . and they are not looked after .. so many aphids on there and black spot and mildew .. they only thing i think they do is prune and water .. sometimes aphids can be carried by the wind from a close by place where plants and roses carry disease

The fences are double palings and 2 metres high, so I can only think that I bought in an infected bush and that infected the rest of them. I never had this problem last year. I think I know where I got it from too, will never buy there again!

what was the rose rosy ?

Honestly I wouldn't know it was so long ago .. And I bought a couple from her.

sorry to hear that rosy .. guess we all learn , ive bought few roses from couple of place and i wont go back to..

I might go to Bunnings tomorrow and see what potent mixtures I can find or those pills to put in the ground. Thanks for all your help anyway

no worries rosy . let me know how u go

I will