Glad I checked the fridge last night. Had several batches of seedlings beginning to sprout. I had R. glauca x R. woodsii from a cross I made last year. I also had seeds that I collected in the spring of this year, collected seeds from a species that I have no idea what it is (very similar to R. woodsii but has very very shiny foliage and more thorns does not match any species that I know is native to the area I think it may be a hybrid of R. woodsii and something else), and what is probably seed from R. acicularis because of the elevation it was found at. I also had pretty much the whole batch of R. soulieana op seeds sprouting these seeds have been in the fridge for 3 years coming from a mail order nursery in Britian I was about ready to throw them out. And if the last one was not a big surprise enough I had a cross I did this year which the hip fell off early in August that I decided to put in the fridge when I opened it up and the seeds for the most part looked short of mature this cross being one a particularly am looking forward to Rose Gilardi x William Baffin. I am glad I decided to check the seeds out.
As you can see from the selection above I am really interested in species roses I think crossing them is were the roses of the future are going to come from. But the first thing is growing the seedlings and selecting the best clones. Then crossing them with repeat flowering roses to get some repeat flowering genes in them (or maybe from the evidence out there I should say it more like crossing them in hopes of eliminating the gene that cause non-repeat. Since it seems like the evidence suggest the repeat flowering gene probably does not code for anything but is just a screwed up copy of the non-remontant gene that does not know how to turn off flowering or at least that what I am leaning towards.).