This is a branch of Living Easy. The whole branch went veg. on top of hips.
Livin’ Easy does this very frequently, especially in the early season and in the shade.
I hope the seeds are still good under that.
Yes, the seeds are still good and you will get tons of germinations. In fact, I’ve done pollinations on proliferated flowers, and still got good germinations. Why does it do that? I’m not sure, but cold and heat is one reason. I think it has to do with the shade too.
Enrique; I find the occurence of proliferation in blooms is mainly in the very early spring blooms but as the weather warms up it ceases.
I’m glad to hear this one will germinate good. What I want is between 500-1000 germinations and what the tally came to was less than 200 of the known performers. This could be one in a 100 year opportunity by the looks of what and how the hips are developing, (due to the weather ?). At least a dozen roses have seeds outside the hips getting red light-full spectrum light. What is interesting is how Shreveport and Liebszauber are not developing hips per say but have seeds in the fuzz on top, something you would normally just throw away. Some of the new unknowns of course are just loaded with hips.
Hey Neil,
Livin Easy, like I told ya, is a really good seed parent. The proliferation isnt as common on Livin Easy as it is on other Silver Jubilee descendants, but it shows up every once in a while. However, it has not shown up on any of my seedlings of LE.
I think subconsciouly it was remembered, but come time to pollinate its like a kid in a candy store.