Excited but too impatient?

General Discussion
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This is my first attempt to grow roses from seeds, and I am already excited and curious. In December I collected some red hips from a yellow rose at my work. As I live in Denmark it had already been cold for a while, with temperature below 32 F some nights. I then took out the seeds and put them strait away on a wet toilet towel and sac them at room temperature.

Now it looks like the seed shells are beginning to open op and it

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Bo, generally the root starts to emerge fairly quickly, like in a day, however, sometimes the seed just swells and the root never emerges. Sometimes it emerges slowly. How many seeds do you have?

3

As I understand it, even if the weather is cold, because of

hormones in a hip, little or nor cold stratification occurs

within the hip. Maybe the seeds need some time in the refrigerator.

Chris Mauchline

4

I would plant them right now if I were you…

It’s easier to plant them now then later because there’s the risk of accidently harming a young seedling.

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Thanks for your answers. There are about 20 seed and they all come from one hip.

If the seeds have not been through a stratification due to hormones in the hip, no plants should grow from the seed. So it will be interesting to see what will happen.

I will try to plant some of the soon.

Actually I still have some hips in the refrigerator as I thought that it was possible to get them through stratification in the hips too. But is it not so?

Thanks

Bo

DK