Questions about Wasagaming:
Reading on HMF I looked at the parentage and was hoping someone could explain for me (it would have to be at a kindergarten level)
Why Wasagaming ended up as a diploid.
Rosa Rug. Thum. diploid (so that makes sense) x Acicularis hexaploid, octoploid, or tetraploid (any of these apparantly)
This then was crossed with Gruss an Teplitz a tetraploid.
Is it just that it panned out a diploid the first time, not a triploid or tetraploid.
And then just happened to in the second cross as well?
Now, what to do with it??? I am planning on crossing it both ways, as the hips it had on it last season had no seeds in them, but it has been used as a seed parent, at least from what I found on HMF.
I have several seedlings I’m interested in crossing it with: several seedlings from Therese Bugnet, one from Martin Frobisher, also one from Lilian Austin that I’m fairly certain the pollen parent was Martin Frobisher (it is still small, but repeated multiple times its first year).
I was also considering Mary Rose with it and Lilian Austin herself.
Debated red (like Henry Kelsey or Ramblin Red) since Gruss an Teplitz put some darker color in it.
Some other way you would choose to go with it?
I would like to retain the cup shape and fragrance, hopefully adding a few more petals. Foliage can go whatever way looks wise, preferably disease resistant, obviously.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!