I tried using a 10% bleach solution to clean my flower buckets in my shop, and now I'm seeing weird spots on the rose stems.

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My buddy at his nursery had the same thing happen last year. He used a strong bleach mix on his buckets and it left these chemical burn marks on all the hydrangea stems. The spots looked almost rusty. He switched to just using a little dish soap and really hot water for cleaning, and it stopped completely. Those bleach marks never really went away on the affected stems though. It can really mess with the plant tissue.

aliceharris4mo ago

My own bleach incident left my ferns looking like they survived a lab accident.

sethm584mo ago

Oh man, that's rough... did the spots show up right away, or did they take a few days to appear?

sandra_moore301mo ago

Asked my buddy about his rusty-stemmed hydrangeas, and yep, the spots took like four days to really show up.