This is my October 2006 update.
“Possible tetraploid” acicularis used as the mother:
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2004 R-15 as pollen parent.
There are 6 surviving plants. Only the one mentioned earlier in this thread has flowered. The pollination attempt with Carefree Sunshine failed. Also, no open pollinated hips were produced. I assume that I tried using the (acicularis X R-15) pollen on other plants, but I did not find any successful hips. When this plant bloomed, there was quite a wet spell, this may be the reason for the lack of hip set both as mother as as father.
2004 (Hansa X OP) as pollen parent.
There are 10 surviving plants. 2 flowered.
One flowered in early June and had pink, semi-double flowers. No opened pollinated hips were found.
The second formed three hips, but no information is available concerning the characteristics of the flowers.
“Possible tetraploid” acicularis used as the father (pollen supplier):
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2004 (Calocarpa X Nutkana) as mother.
There are 6 surviving plants. One flowered. It formed purple, single blooms in early June. Twenty open pollinated hips were collected.
There are also 10 surviving plants when the pollen was a mixture of Agnes pollen and acicularis pollen. Only one flowered. It formed large, pink, semi-double blooms in late May. No open pollinated hips were found.
2004 (Illusion X John Davis) as mother.
There is only 1 plant. It flowered and formed 4 open pollinated hips. Unfortunately, the characteristics of the flowers were not recorded.
2004 (Corylus X OP) as mother.
There are 4 surviving plants. None of them have flowered.
2004 ((Delicata X OP) X ((Therese Bugnet X OP) X OP)) as mother.
There are 10 surviving plants. Three have flowered.
One flowered in early June with pink, semi-double flowers. It formed 7 open pollinated hips.
The second plant also flowered in June. It had small, pink, single blooms. 13 open pollinated hips ere collected.
The third plant flowered in June and formed 3 open pollinated hips. The characteristics of the flower were not recorded.
2004 (Hansa X OP) as mother.
There are 2 surviving plants. one flowered. It formed pink flowers in early June. Unfortunately, other flower characteristics were not recorded. 1 open pollinated hip was collected.
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