Sigh. The best laid plans of mice and men…
This is the reverse-bicolour I was so excited about yesterday; today the contrast is gone, and it’s just a soft pink. Not heinous, but less exciting.
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A few first-blooms on my OP Bonica seedlings; the last pictured (the near-white) has wavy, rather thick petals that have lasted at least ten days. I like the shape the wave gives to the bloom, and the thick petals hold their shape even in the heat. Keeper, methinks? Some of the seedlings are nearly to completely prickle-free, one even so under the leaves.
It’s a pity they are all pink. lol & “C’est la vie”!
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My culling has opened up even more space (there were a lot of “no-shows”, and only a few later germinations) in the seedling boxes, but temperatures and humidity have continued to give conditions where fungus thrives…
A very few PM-riddled seedling remain, but one group of seedlings has continued its seeming immunity: the OP seedlings from 2-3 different cultivars of white landscaping shrubs of the Meidiland-type. I yanked one for being pink, and the rest are now budding up and we shall see what comes of them. Probably will keep a couple or three for their overall health and try for more in the next generation.
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The season is progressing FAST (and I’m pushing it a little), with all but the last few seedlings potted up and the seedling boxes retired for the rest of the summer. I’ve perhaps 30-35 seedlings kept, with maybe half as my own “keepers”, and the rest to be sold off as “good-enough, but not for me” (usually meaning they are pink).
Edit: just potted up the remaining seedlings from the final box and BOY DID I UNDERESTIMATE: there are 54 seedlings that made it this far. Granted some haven’t flowered yet (including the rugosa hybrid seedlings), so a few more may get tossed sooner than later. 54 is a MUCH larger number than 15, which is how many I had left by September last year…
I mean, I’ve got 8 seedlings from ‘Outta the Blue’ alone! The most vigorous one had such an extensive root-system it went into a 3gallon right away!!!
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How much do you sell for? I have more than I care for at the “good enough but not for me” level and have thought of doing this also
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I’m thinking $10 for a well-rooted four-inch pot, and $25 for a 1gal, as base-price. Rarer colour-patterns or a stupendous scent may increase the ask…
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Nice to see how other people organise their rose babies and other plants. At this point in the season I have all the maturing hips that I want for this year and am now treating my roses as flower makers for the pollinators and for people to look at and enjoy their scent, I am just deadheading them when the anthers turn brown and have no more pollen and the roses have gone over a bit, keeping them all fed and watered, and supplying lots of other flowers so that the pollinators can have a feast. I am lucky that at the moment and for the past few weeks my garden has had lots of pollinators, bumble bees, hoverflies and honey bees. Probably more hoverflies than the others, and they stay around longer, making a meal of the pollen as they slowly walk around the anthers. All my flowers and their pollen I am now leaving for them. I felt a bit mean nicking their pollen. At the moment, and for maybe two months or so now, there are no aphids on my roses. I put that down to the hoverflies.
The 3 small plants I ended up with from my hybridising are in choice positions for getting as much sun as possible. Where they originally were they didn’t seem to be thriving as well as they should have, in spite of my being careful over watering, feeding and keeping pests off them, and even moving them around to get more sun. They are thriving better now.
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Sorting through the OP Bonica seedlings (so much PINK!!!) was a lot of fun, and I’ve found three to keep an eye on, including the one here with red stamens. It bloomed as a mid-pink single first and went into the no-group, then added a few petals for its second, but this third flower made me take it out of the “sell them” lot and tag it a keeper.
It’s got charm.
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My one-and-only germination this year from OP ‘Abraham Darby’, and it’s pink. Smells nice though, and seems stronger than the ones I got last year (except the little shrub probably pollinated by ‘Trier’; that thing is amazing! *see it under topic “OP Abraham Darby”), so maybe I’ll keep it on another year? Dunno.
Maybe let’s see how it finishes this year…
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Hello there..
I really amazed by looking those seedling, I am a amature gardener,who try to grow rose seedling. Well I have really a hot climate (20- 40 °C ) in general. So I tried to stratify my rose seeds in the freezer but I don’t know if it will work or not.
So if anything you want to tell me then please let me know..
Thankyou…
There is MUCH information on this forum about germinating rose seeds, and I encourage you to read it all and apply the methods of those in similar climes to yours. I am not that person, sorry. I live in Western Canada, on Vancouver Island. It is a temperate rainforest climate, with very wet, mild winters and dry hot summers. Rather Mediterranean, really.
Good luck!
In the forum topic First embryo germination success is a link added by Don, on 9 Nov 24 (see page 9 of the document), which indictes freezing is possible but not for all rose types. Just in the fridge is the more common approach - kept moist in a medium and/or plastic bag. I am a beginner breeder and have learned a lot following forum topic searches, as VanIsle suggets above. Good luck.
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