Yet another. Home Run certainly puts it’s stamp on it’s offspring. I have grown many seedlings using this seed parent, a mauve floribunda, but never got red, much less a red single.
Robert, nice looking seedlings. I’m definitely putting Home Run on as many good seed parents as I can. I’m toying with the idea of making Gemini x Home Run. The Morden Sunrise x Home Run seedlings are looking good. I’ll have to get back to taking pictures and get them posted.
Liz
That one is pretty, Robert. Why isnt your mauve in commerce? The majority of mauves suck so a decent one would be nice. Off the top of my head, there are only a few mauve floribundas of commercial quality. Or maybe it is and I missed it.
One of my initial worries with Home Run was actually the abundance of single parents it has. I could not, and still have the issue of, choosing suitable crosses with it. I still think that Cherry Meililand is my best choice seed parent for it. I had good luck crossing (Dortmund x Circus) to it. I also wondered if it would cross well with Raven, but I am afraid of introducing the massive blackspot proneness from Lavaglut.
Liz, in addition to the crosses you mention above, it would also be nice to see pics of your Lambert Closse x Hot Cocoa seedling 
Morden Sunrise x Home Run sounds delightful Liz. I love the photo of that one. I’d like to see more too.
Jadae, my mauve floribunda lacks vigor.It was the first seedling I every registered. It flowers very well, great color and fragrance but it never gets very large. It produces a great many hips and that slows it down further still. It does better budded.
Unfortunately most seedlings it produces lack vigor, but there are a few I might carry forward.
I’ve always wanted to try ‘Cherry Meidiland’ but now I have so much red coming along with these Home Run seedlings I doubt I will explore it.
Bummer 
Here is the second cycle of the first blossom I posted. It is vigorous and breaking new growth all over indicating it should be bushy. It’s been slightly less than six weeks from first flowering which is amazing.
More amazing still is that the second seedling to flower, which morphed into a semi-double, cycled in close to 5 weeks.
It has a light but pleasant fragrance. ‘Home Run’ has none that I can detect.
It will be interesting to see if it forms hips but I already have a seed parent prepped for the pollen from this blossom.
Hey Robert, I like that one - very nice! Sounds vigorous.
Jim Sproul
Thanks Jim, originally I figured these seedlings might have a leg up on ‘Home Run’ in terms of hardiness, but I understand Home Run is hardy to about zone 5 which is better than I would have expected.
I guess I won’t know the story till I get some seedlings into trials. This will probably be one of those I will try to get evaluated.
I expect disease resistance to be excellent but you know how that goes.
I’m up in zone 5 and Home Run came through the winter without any major issues. I have updated the Home Run photos, adding some new seedlings - 06-27-1 and 06-27-2 are Morden Sunrise x Home Run, and )6-73-15 is a Cal Poly x Home Run seedling. I have also included two photos of later blooms from previous posted seedlings - 06-85-04 which is a Loving Touch x Home Run seedling and 06-73-5 another Cal Poly x Home Run seedling.
Dee, I have a so-so photo from last year of my Lambert Closse x Hot Cocoa seedling - 05-05-01. It has an interesting flower form, the first 5 petals are straight out and the rest are erect. Can’t wait to see if it does the same thing this year.
Liz
Link: ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/liz_lee@rogers.com/album?.dir=a27are2&.src=ph
Whoops, I realized this morning that it was not the Loving Touch x Home Run seedling that I took the photo of, it was another photo of 06-27-2 a Morden Sunrise x Home Run seedling. This particular seedling has more than 5 petals, which is a bit surprising since both parents are singles. I am finding that all my Home Run seedlings have good vigor and are excellent rebloomers. The 06-73-5 seedling has probably had 6-7 blooms already.
Now I have a new photo of 06-85-4, Loving Touch x Home Run. I have 2 seedlings left from this cross and this is by far the favored one. The other one is too leggy, does not repeat as well, and I do not particularly care for its flower form. I’m hoping that this one is fertile. The other new photo is of a new Cal Poly x Home Run seedling, 06-73-14. This particular combination of parents is sure giving me a diverse array of seedlings.
Beautiful Liz. I look forward to hearing more about the progress of these and seeing more photos.
I like 06-27-04 and 06-27-2.
Deciding what seedlings we keep or cull says a lot about what we value. It seems each breeder’s roses reflect their personality.
Hope to see more of 06-27-04 and hear a progress report. Very nifty color.
Yeah, those 2 Morden Sunrise x Home Run seedlings are very nice. They are a bit younger than the Cal Poly seedlings, but they are definitely repeating and the plant type seems to be fairly sturdy. 06-27-2 has a great scent to it. 06-27-4 is getting set to bloom again.
I’m sort of hoping for disease this year. I know, very strange, but this way I can get a sense of if the Home Run seedlings inherited Home Run’s disesase resistance.
Thanks for the comments and I’ll definitely keep posting the babys.
Robert, it does seem that roses that we choose when culling does say something about what we like. Each of us has particular preferences that come through in our roses.
Liz, that 6-27-04 has that hard color to get - well done!
I am finding that seedlings of my 'Home Run’seedling code-named “J76-3” are showing increased petal count. Below is a photo of one that I took yesterday.
Jim Sproul
Wow, that’s beautiful Jim.
Liz, I read somewhere that William Radler makes a blackspot tea from blackspotted leaves and sprays his plants with it, a quick and easy way to check disease resistance.
I try to be liberal in choosing flower color and really conservative in choosing something I feel could possibly do okay in a sustainable garden. Although blooms that mar easily are out asap.
Thanks Robert! That was an OP seedling of J76-3. I have been using J76-3 lots as a pollen parent this year, including on ‘Midnight Blue’, ‘Stainless Steel’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain’. One of my objectives is to get the cleanliness into HT type roses. Last year I did many crosses onto ‘Stainless Steel’ with one of my cleanest, most floriferous seedlings code-named I166. I166 came from a cross of (‘Marmalade Skies’ X ‘Baby Love’) X [(‘Marmalade Skies’ X ‘Baby Love’) X (‘Marmalade Skies’ X ‘Baby Love’)]. There are several seedlings from that cross that are larger many petalled HT types that I would hope to cross with some of the seedlings that will result from ‘Stainless Steel’ X J76-3 (looking for a clean red HT).
Jim Sproul