The roses I want to use for pollen are flowering like mad. Very few seed parents are in flower except for a single bloom on Maytime. So, I boinked it with Basye’s Amphidiploid 86-3. I know it’s been a mule for everyone, but you have to keep trying!
Kinda fun how everywhere the timing is different. I have to wait about 3 more months!
I have a hybrid Henry made from Basye’s Amphidiploid (musk/rug version) that has been moved twice after germination. Maybe it’ll bloom next year after some growth, lol. It never gets disease though, despite the unintentional tough love and travels. Its foliage is very grey-green, and it is seemingly drought tolerant.
I raised a self from that Amphidiploid that flowered all summer. The last I heard of it, Joan Monteith had it. Kim
I sure would love to play with some seed off that 86-3 amphidip!
George, I’ve only found one or two seed on it. I understood it didn’t set seed, or at least not well. If I miss some flowers and there are seed, they are yours. Kim
Oh cool! …see I told ya I’m not shy to ask when I see somethin’ I really like…LOL :0) (greedy grin)
Too bad the tetraploidy didn’t also instill reliable seed fertility in the case of this amphidiploid number!
If I wasn’t so scared of chemicals, I would like to double chromosomes of R.fortuniana, which theoretically could be a similar amphidiploid to this one which Basye created (if one is to believe the presumed cross that R.fortuniana supposedly derives from).
Laevigata gets dreadfull global disfuguring PM round here when the conditions suit, usually in our spring…it can look a total grossed-out mess, but I have then seen it recover from such attacks later on in the growing season. I guess PM could be an added issue with some Laevigata descendants.