Irena,
Good luck in Slovenia with EFY. This variety has much appeal the world over. Share the results when you get them.
First off, welcome Irena to a great forum. Your EFY is lovely. How about posting that lovely yellow flower you have on here.
Ok… My plant of Eyes For You produces less than desirable amounts of pollen, just like yours Kim, and my Ebb Tide x Eyes For You cross set a very small number of hips (perhaps 7 out of about 50 pollinations ??) and a very small number of seeds resulted from those hips for me this season. The hips were collected a few days ago now in winter (June-August), so to get things cracking and since there were only 20-30 seeds collected in total, I skipped stratification times and sowed them in sand a few days back, after their pericarps were completely removed. So it was like sowing pure rose seed rather than rose achenes. From opening these achenes up, I can confirm there were quite a few normal appearing true rose seeds in the achenes. I think I sowed something in the order of 10+ true rose seeds in total.
Soooo here is my one season’s worth of work with one Ebb Tide plant as mom (Michael’s screaming can be heard in the background to be sure, but Eyes For You set no seed it is a tiny ungrafted plant, so ET had to be used as mom for this cross to have any chance of working this season… LOL)…
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Maybe when my E4Y grows up it might accept ET pollen (i.e. the reverse cross)…
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Eyes For You gave one hip from one single flower pollination on Jubilee Celebration and I just counted 8 achenes inside the hip ! now…that’s a much better result compared with ET !!
If there are any true rose seeds inside, I’ll take a pic to show them here, just for interest sake.
OK, it turns out most achenes from this single JC x E4Y hip contained gelatinous /very flexible (zero viability) rose seed!
These 3 true rose seeds were the only ones worth keeping (they are pictured inside a zip-lock baggy):
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Of course I’ll sow 'em … tomorrow when I get some fresh sand, in the mean time they can spend a night in the fridge in this zip-lock baggy sprinkled with water and fogged up by blowing into it.
To me this sort of experimenting /probing is as fascinating as getting a unique seedling. We are all different, but the fun factor remains the common element here I guess !!
Good night all !
Yup, like a bunch of “Jacks and the Beanstalks!”
giggles
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Eyes For You pollen on several flowers of Flower Carpet White resulted in a few hips, and out of about 8 achenes only one true rose seed was retrieved, a poor cross to be sure.
Just for a bit of fun w/ camera…here is that true seed (i.e pericarp removed) just prior to sowing:
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Plump looking true rose seed like this is often a good prospect for sprouting in my experience !!
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