Kim the [iPink Petticoat X 86-3][/i] I would have budded it on a good rootstock to see if it really had any potentual. It may have stabilized at an older age, then you could have tested it for own roots production.
warren
Trying to bud anything from it would have required the whole seedling. It never reached a full inch in height. Just a rounded, little mound of foliage.
Back on track with Laevigata. We are comming into spring and growth spurts are starting to happen, foliage is quite healthy.
[attachment 1893 LavXHyWich.jpg]This is a R. laevigata x Hybrid Wich
Very nice!
Mark R. laevigata crosses should do well down your way in the gulf?. Just to remind you this rose seedling when at the cotyledon leaf stage was treated with Trifluralin to double its chromosomes, it has yet to be tested, to varify this.
[quote=Warren]
Mark R. laevigata crosses should do well down your way in the gulf?.[/quote]
They should, if I ever get any! R. laevigata is naturalized all over this area. There are hundreds of them blooming every spring. My own two seed-grown (from local wild-collected seeds) R. laevigata are threatening to take over the world.
Golly if there were that many around here growing wild, I would be making field trips with large caches of pollen.