Probably not the ideal month to bump this one to the top, but with seedlings emerging and crosses being planned, I love seeing the work of others for inspiration, if they are willing to share…
(I have got nothing to share, alas. )
I think I have created now three or more competing threads with this topic over the years, unfortunately. I wish I had continuity within one thread as it would be fun to compare baby pictures to current status of any given seedling. (Anybody ever attend High School class reunions only to be gobsmacked by the unpredictable trajectories former classmates’ lives took?)
If/when sharing, please consider possible risks(??) involved in showing seedlings with high market potential. You don’t want to potentially set patent clocks ticking. (If anybody with better patent law understanding would care to chime in…)
Yeah… I really wish I had kept thes in one thread for the purposes of updates…
(Lots of members from times bygone from whom I haven’t seen posts in a while.)
Feel free to respond to the thread of your choice.
I didn’t think too much about this seedling of mine when it first bloomed a year ago, but its performance in my thunderdome test patch has me really excited for this year. Didn’t black spot at all, kept growing and blooming into the summer when even some of my mature plants had stalled, only becoming dormant after a gopher burrowed through its rootball. The petals hold their color in the sun before cleanly falling off.
Only problem is that I have no idea what cultivar it came from. I snagged it from a large red rose in a park back before I had learned very much. Decent chance I could ID it now, and will attempt to do so when I have the opportunity. The parent was planted right next to a double knock out and I have begun to suspect that they cross pollinated, since it has comparable disease resistance, growing habit, and self-cleaning to my DKO at home.
The glandular buds leave behind a pine scent when you rub them.
I could guess as to a rose that might be in its lineage. (I wonder just how many red landscape roses aren’t K.O. progeny. So many of the bigger breeding houses no longer share lineages it seems.)
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