I have been trying to collect pollen from Rose de Rescht. Maybe I am mixing up the female stigmas with male anthers, but it barely seems to have anthers at all.
Does Rose de Rescht self-pollinate? Does it set hips easily or at all? If it struggles to self-pollinate due to lack of anthers and pollen, can it be pollinated with other roses’ pollen without bothering to remove the petals and the anthers which I can’t find anyway? Surely the only reason to remove the sepals, petals and anthers is to prevent self-pollination? If a rose doesn’t produce any or much pollen, then is this process necessary?
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It does not have many anthers in my experience, and they are usually buried within inner petals–you practically have to dismantle the bloom and separate the petals to recover them. It is rather unlikely that self-fertilization would occur naturally, so you could simply pollinate without emasculating. If you are concerned about other, unintended pollen also being deposited by insects, you would want to bag the bloom to exclude pollinators that might be attracted by the petals.
Stefan
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@MidAtlas, thanks for reply, that is useful information. I am not at all concerned about other pollen being deposited by insects as I have a number of different roses in a small space and any of them pollinating my Rose de Rescht would be interesting and probably not difficult to identify. As long as my Rose de Rescht makes viable hips, preferably not selfed, I would be happy.
I try to encourage pollinating insects, partly because they eat pests and it would be nice if they would cross-pollinate for me. Bees seem far more interested in my other flowers than my roses, even though most of my roses are single or semi-double, so I wouldn’t count on them pollinating my Rose de Rescht for me.
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Hello julie845931,
I agree with Stefan, there is no or very little pollen. I have also never experienced self-pollination, these formed hips are always empty, so I usually act without emasculating.
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I have managed to collect a usable amount of pollen from them, but this only becomes possible later on the summer when it produces slightly fewer petals & I would use 4-6 flowers to do it. Sadly due to the time of year I had to freeze that pollen for use this year
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I agree it normally has very few anthas and pollen, but it can be used as a mother
This offspring flowered in spring after germination.
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