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I use these large clips (from potato bags, mostly) to mark my pollinated flowers. They are easy to see and pencil shows well. I just mark “X (pollen source)” and the date pollinated.
‘Roller Coaster’ was used on ‘Love & Peace’ (BAIpeace), and here’s hoping for better heath and flower size from momma, & stripes from poppa.
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Samesies! Haha. Some of its progeny shown on this forum have been incredibly attractive to me.
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I will also schow my news.Rosa "Indigo"x “Rosa farreri”.Over the winter seedling covered.
Second seedling-third generation Rosa “Pranciška”(Rosa Officinalis"x Rosa “Schneekoppe”.Free polination.Bloomed the following year.Important foliage,like parchment. And this cold summer,it seems,to be quite healthy.
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Beautiful blooms on those seedlings @redote884 !
I had never heard of r. farreri before , so it was interesting to go read about it on HMF. They are both gorgeous!
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Thank you.I’m glad you liked it.
Is it fragrant? Love that orange!
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I will sniff next flower👍
I always sniff and record the fragrance (or lack thereof) of the first bloom. That’s often a deciding factor if something stays or goes.
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Not something I actually want to pursue, but when my Gallica ‘Charles De Mills’ opened this season, many were just so perfectly neutered, with all stamens converted to petals and only a tuft of pistils in the perfect bullseye centre of each flower. So I reached for ‘Violacea’/‘La Belle Sultane’ and used it as a pollen-dauber.
“MORE PURPLE” was the only thought in my head at the time.
It seems to have taken. I don’t have room to sow 2+years of waiting seeds. Dammit. #Enthusiast
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High Country Banshee x John Davis. HCB has a lot to recommend itself to a northern gardener: tip hardy, fragrant, shade tolerant, beautiful flowers, disease resistant. Only flaw is it’s once blooming. It sets hips easily with all kinds of pollen and appears to be pollen fertile as well.
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Charles does set seed & those seeds will germinate!
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Tiny sexy-parts, and my aching back don’t mix, so I let the bees have at it!
Moved/isolated ‘Sweet Chariot’ and Pemberton’s ‘Danäe’ over to the neighbour’s deck for a couple weeks during peak bloom, fully expecting the OP seed to include crosses between the two.
A little bit “out there” as far as shrub-roses go, but I should find fragrant, colourful, tidy plants among them.
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I just sniffed it and it has good fragrance!
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I am SO MAD at me right now. Got a little enthusiastic deadheading ‘Night Owl’.
Took an Ativan. It’s like 34deg out.
So now I’m watching FROZEN.
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So if I HADN’T’VE lopped off those pollinated flowers, the hips would almost look like this! Sigh…
(I did remake the cross, I’ve just got to wait a few more weeks is all.)
EDIT: harvested 53 seeds from those three hips.
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My cross of ‘Antike 89’ x ‘Roller Coaster’ gave me a hip with FORTY SEEDSin it, and all of them sank like rocks. Noice! A89 has superior health for me here on Vancouver Island (no mildew and little BS), while RC struggles to remain clothed in leaves, so obviously I’m hoping for better health with stripes.
With that kind of seed-count, A89 will be leaned on MUCH more heavily next season!
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