Also I never actually asked anyone about how to best germinate this particular seed (beyond benefits paper toweling vs peat moss), if I had more specific advice I would have simply done as they said!
Ah yes !!.. the last time I felt this way was when a school headmistress reprimanded me for ringing the school bell (rope and bell) just for fun… I was aged 5 years old then…never felt like that since … until now …
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LOL.
Oh, no, George! I’m sorry! That was not my intention at all.
My first encounter with Legacy and The Probable Amphidiploid was with the enormous plants in the Huntington Study Plot which Dr. Basye had sent for them to grow. Both were planted under the drip line of a very large, very old oak tree, in deep, old oak litter. They were watered by rain birds.
Both had taken to the tree, growing as fairly rampant climbers. Both were loaded with hips and had quite thick wood. With permission, I collect one gallon Zip Loc bags full of self set hips from each. I took them home, ran them through the blender then planted them in the planting mix I bought at the time by the truck load. Each were in their own half wine barrel. Both came up densely and fairly quickly. I kept only five or six of the Probable Amphidiploid seedlings, finally setting on only one, which repeated regularly and which, last I heard, perhaps Joan Monteith still had. All of the Legacy seedlings were so bloody weak and small. None flowered that first year, though most were thornless. I didn’t transplant them from the half barrel, but finally took the whole bunch out together, knocked off most of the dirt and sent the whole off with the gardener’s truck to the dump. I already had Legacy and none of the seedlings impressed me as much as the original, but it taught me that they WOULD germinate without any special treatment, giving me the confidence to begin playing with it in earnest.
Oh dear I was just JOKING !!
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PLEASE don’t say that sorry word again, you have NEVER offended me, nor ever will LOL.
QUITE THE CONTARY he he he giggles
As for this RARE seed… I just hope two seedlings is enough odds now to secure a prickerless one …
FINGERS CROSSED
David Mears, are you there?? LOL
OK, OK! LOL! You know how difficult it is to make those kinds of determinations reading instead of hearing. I feared I HAD and I hadn’t meant to, so there! LOL! Blessings on getting at least TWO thornless ones from them.
Im here George. What I have done with the seed is I halved it, erring on the side of caution me. I planted half straight out in seed raising mix, the rest is sitting here beside me at room temp, 20[sup]c[/sup]/68[sup]f[/sup]. I am contemplating my next move with the seed I have.
@ Kim, yup there is no substitute for hearing and seeing eachother talk, to get the nuances in some conversations …the dry humor etc is sometimes very hard to convey on a forum without sound + vision !!
Good Lord … emoticons like :O) and things like LOL I incorporate to add positive /happy emotions, they literally mean I am laughing out loud and smiling … (I wouldn’t place them there if I was not happy)… STILL I am sooo sorry for the bad phrasing, I thought y’all would be laughing at my predicament as a cheeky kid … BTW NOT much has changed in my maturity me thinks, that kid is still in me evidently… LOL.
@ David M, I am glad you are still here LOL…from what Kim is sharing here, it sounds like the best thing to do is what you have already started to do with it… you have a better grip on what to do w/ this seed than me it seems, congrats !!
David M, I would love for you or I to end up with a smooth BL x modern rose hybrid in this seed, now that would be grouse !!