I’m starting to think there might be an insect issue however. One of my other cuttings has an inflo on it and has begun dropping buds like crazy all of a sudden :( They go from healthy looking to turning black and falling off within what seems like hours. I’ve lost 3 already this morning.

i did mine on july 24th ... and it took about 3 weeks to recover gang busters .... BUT.. that was august in MI ... i suspect.. if i did it in now or in sept.. in my MI ... with nights presumably getting cold.. it would have been a much slower process.. not to mention days getting shorter .... etc ... BUT I DONT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE i took everything down to about 4 inches ... you could do every other branch down.. and see how it responds ... frankly.. by late sept.. i would me more worried about an early surprise frost.. than whether my annuals still would be looking great ... carp.. now you have something else to worry about.. depending where you are .... lol ken ps: should have started your own post .... in the annuals forum ... with a pic of yours ... bet you would have gotten a lot more replies ....

Pulled these off my Carding Mill today: Here’s the plant, with the affected leaves pulled off: Thanks!

Jena, my Perle d’Or did the bud drop thing it’s first year, the whole year. A lot of my roses also had chlorosis, including Perle d’Or, even though they were getting regular Magnesium-sulfate and I was alternating between Miracle Grown and a seaweed fertilizer, all in the hopes of curing them of chlorosis. Mostly it was the Polyanthas and Multifloras that had this problem. Finally I sent in a sample for a soil test. I had plenty of all the minerals and nutrients except for Nitrogen (which I already knew since its obviously devoid of any organics and so I was fertilizing) and absolutely zero Manganese (Mn) detected. Once I put a teaspoon of Manganese Sulfate dissolved in a gallon of water on each rose last fall the chlorosis completely disappeared and Perle d’Or stopped dropping buds. I will now do this once or twice a year; not too often since Mn is a minor nutrient and too much can be toxic. The Miracle grow I was using did have trace Mn, but somehow it wasn’t enough. I wonder if my soil was just binding it up? This just demonstrates that bud drop could be due to lack of an essential nutrient. It might not necessarily be Manganese for you. But since you mention the Kellogg soil might not be that great, I would give it a nice dilute liquid fertilizer once a week and see if it cures it.