Congratulation on such good germinations Liz and Jackie! Too many seedlings is definitely a better problem than having to few.
We finished planting seeds last week and I can’t wait to get some germinations. This is a great time of the year!
This is a good time of year Jim!
Today’s germinations:
Polka x 1-72-1
Smoke Rings x 1-72-1
Illusion x Smoke Rings
(Lilac Charm x Grey Pearl) x OP
Hettie OP - Paul Barden’s Bonica '82 × Abraham Darby
New Dawn x New Dawn
LOTS of 54-08-08 which is Paul’s Midnight Blue × OADEFED
Germinations are going a bit nuts this year. Only a month into it and I am nearing 300 seedlings. I decided to stop potting them up when I hit 60 seedling from any one cross. So far these are the crosses that have resulted in seedlings.
Gemini x John Cabot
Prairie Celebration x Everest Double Fragrance
Carefree Beauty x John Cabot
Carefree Beauty x Julia Child
Carefree Beauty x Midnight Blue
Carefree Beauty x Persian Autumn
Carefree Beauty x Home Run
Carefree Beauty x Persian Flame
Carefree Beauty x Topsy Turvy
Earthsong x John Cabot
Earthsong x Pretty Lady
Prairie Harvest x Julia Child
Alberta x Pretty Lady
Alberta x Midnight Blue
Alberta x Julia Child
(Gemini x Scarlet Moss) x Baby Love
(Gemini x Scarlet Moss) x Home Run
(Alberta x John Cabot) x Baby Love
Jim Lounsbery x John Cabot
(Westerland x (Luis Desarmero x John Cabot)) op
Outta the Blue x Pretty Lady
(Loving Touch x Baby Love) x Home Run
Those sound like awesome crosses, Liz!
Yesterday I took a look and was happy to see my first germinations. Now I’m not sure what to do, since they’re in the seedling flats in the cooler. I’m not sure I’ve ever had germinations this early. Maybe I’ll try to dig them out and transplant them and get them some light.
Morden Fireglow x Cuthbert Grant (2)
Carefree Sunshine x (Knock Out x William Baffin) (2)
High Voltage OP (~15)
The HV are in a flat where I treated half the flat with calcium nitrate solution a week or two ago. The germinations are occurring on both sides of the flat in approximately equal frequency.
Joe,
If you transplant ur seedlings into styro coffee cups and then grow them under fluorescent light, you should have blooming size plants by early march. Keep topmost leaves as close to light tubes as possible.
Good to see someone else using carefree sunshine; cs is our best source for yellow color and good health; usually better for pollen than seed.
Getting many Quietness seedlings, including qt x cs, despite qt being triploid.
Here are some more seedlings since my last post.
(Hawkeye Belle x R.arkansana OP) x Frontenac
(Hot Wonder x 1T20) x (Morden Centennial OP x Fuchsia Meidiland)
(Hot Wonder x William Baffin) x Champlain
(Morden Centennial OP x Fuchsia Meidiland) x Carefree Sunshine
(Morden Centennial OP x Fuchsia Meidiland) x Frontenac
Folksinger x (Hawkeye Belle x R.arkansana OP)
Goldbusch x (Easy Going x Suzanne)
R.blanda x Little Mischief
(My Hero x William Baffin) OP
High Voltage OP
(R.eglanteria x R.glauca) OP (from David Zlesak)
I attached photos of two of the Belle de Crecy x (Carefree Beauty x John Cabot) seedlings. Notice how they both have a second stem. A third seedling is just starting to grow another stem.
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There are two plants in this pot, the one with two stems is on the right.
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I stratified my seeds on Jan. 2nd and we checked them today for the first time, 4 weeks in the fridge. I had 4 germinations! One was from the very old hips I found and cleaned just for the heck of it, Belle Au Bois. The others were one from Maytime and two from Sunburn. I’m excited to have my first babies of 2012!
A Quietness x Double Red Knockout opened yesterday. It was red yesterday, so it’s fading too fast at only 70f, it has a vegetative center also, but it feels good to have some seedlings again.
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Pretty foliage, though!
Thanks, I like the dark foliage also. Between that and the pretty flower it’s worth keeping an eye on.
Sweetness x Select Pollen, Yellow Brick Road x Select Pollen, and Mary Susan x Select Pollen (probably Teeny Bopper or Prairie Sunrise) have begun to germinate en masse as of yesterday. I am so excited. The former two have like 12+ male parents each, lol.
The good news is that a mauve that is decent relative to most mauves is female fertile, and one of the new Buck roses is also female fertile.
Oh, yeah, btw, the first two female parents have many seeds w/ (Rosa canina x Baby Love) as a male parent. If I am successful, I should have fully repeating F3’s in non-species colors from Rosa canina in 3-4 years. The male parent is already a fade-resistant salmon and primrose color.
Lots of luck, I love those en masse germinations. Neil
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I almost didn’t see this little seedling when it popped up this week. Is this unusual to have germinations with leaves this color? It is an Othello X Liebesperle(Julia Child X Monsieur Tillier) cross.
Not unusual at all. That depends upon the plant’s genes. Seems this one will at least have deep burgundy new growth. It’ll be nice if it has redder foliage through its cycle. Quite pretty, congratulations!
I guess they are not unusual, but they certainly are not in the majority. But they certainly are attractive, and they seem to grow a little slower than the mean green ones, at least initially. And they do stand out, color wise. It will be interesting to see if it does turn out a deep red. Post a pic when it blooms.
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Posted a picture of this one a week ago, it now has its first true leaf and look at that color. Will post more later after it has some good growth on it.
Hi Neil,
Bonica is now coming up “en masse” lol. She had fewer mates this year, too. I think it was Bonica x {Peppermint Pop, Yellow Brick Road, Savoy Hotel, Winter Sunset, Pretty Lady, Colorific, Remember Me, (Rosa canina x Baby Love), (Rosa canina x Royal Amethyst), Shadow Dancer, Crimson Flame}
I think the majority are Peppermint Pop, Pretty Lady, and Yellow Brick Road. The others were too early when it was raining.
This is going to be a really good germination year.
Joan, That certainly is deep red. Right now I have a Basyes’ Legacy cross that appears to be that deep. And I have 3 almost (not quite) that color from some 34-06-05 pollen (thank-you Paul Barden) that are also showing the new deep red growth. What is very interesting is that not all deep purple/red foliage are produced from red or purple flowering stock. I believe that Dream Come True has some of the deepest colored foliage for the longest, even though it isn’t even a dark color flower (opens a golden apricot). Makes these all the more interesting to watch.
I finally get to get in on the fun…I’ve now transplanted 38 seedlings. I dug the tiny sprouts out of the seedling trays; I hope they’ll be allright.
There are a lot of open pollinated High Voltage popping up. Just a few OP Prairie Joy
Here are the ones I’ve transplanted:
Carefree Sunshine x (Knock Out x William Baffin)
Ramblin’ Red x KOWB (this cross is germinating like crazy)
CS x the unknown seedling I call “Bicolor William Baffin”
High Voltage x BWB
Prairie Joy x Sunrise Sunset
Cuthbert Grant x Morden Fireglow
Super Hero x KOWB
Prairie Star x Carefree Sunshine