I collected the hips and shelled the seeds from this VERY healthy, vigorous dark red-purple China today. Is anyone in the Continental US interested in the seed? The hips were a decent size, but most contained one or two mature, large seeds with numerous small, immature, undeveloped seeds.
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If you don’t get a taker in a better climate, I’d like to try whether nitrate will be beneficial for a china rose. Then I can deal with the challenge of wintering over in a pot. I do that OK with some others.
The seeds you sent last year of Persian sunset (5), gave 4 germination with nitrate, of which 2 made it through the summer and are now tucked away in cold storage. Rather a lot of disease on them as I was doing minimum spray routine. But maybe we’ll get something from it. thanks for the sending.
I tried a PM but couldn’t see if it went through. My apologies if this is redundant.
Larry Davis
Hi Larry, no sir, your private message didn’t come through. I know it’s working as I’ve received a PM today from someone else. Yes, there are seeds for Purpurea still available. I’ll be happy to send some tomorrow. Please email me your address at this screen name on America on Line dot com. I"ll divide them between you and the other requester. That will give you both a nice, easily handled batch to play with. I think you’ll like Purpurea. It is bullet proof here as a plant.
Kim;
I’d like to give them a go. Do you think Purpurea and Winecup are just different names for the same rose? The latter has proven to be pretty resistant to BS here.
They look pretty much the same to me from photos, Stephen, but I don’t grow Wine Cup, so who knows? I’m glad to hear WC has proven healthy there. I’d expect Purpurea to be, also. It’s really a good plant. All the seeds will go out Monday (tomorrow). That does it for Purpurea seeds. They’re all spoken for now. Thanks. I hope you all have success with them and enjoy them.