[attachment 1842 F2hybvirg1bK7L38.jpg] F2 Virginiana Hybrid (F1 Virginiana x Hybrid Kordesii) . The stake is to stabilize it in our windy season.
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Beautiful clean foliage Warren. Yet again!
Joseph it not only about the blooms, I am really trying hard to improve all aspects. F1 crosses are going in various directions to achieve my objective of species crosses to improve the health issues.
Warren, this your text from the original post, could you expand on the whole parentage of this please,
F2 Virginiana Hybrid (F1 Virginiana x Hybrid Kordesii)
Really cool foliage Warren - it’ll be neat to see it mature!!
I like the idea of mixing virginiana and kordesii blood.
Adam I am hoping to breed one tough little critter, The F1 Virginiana offspring have very good vigour, health was brilliant, they flowered at one year old and their autumn foliage colours ranged from orange through to deep red. I have created five different branches of F2 virginina hybrids all capable of transferring a large and varied combination of good traites.
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Warren, very nice foliage! I am trying to achieve a similar goal in my breeding program of using species to increase the genetic diversity of roses. I’ve gotten many seeds and hips using the pollen from what I believe to be a wild Bracteata amphidiploid. I’ve used this bracteata pollen on Francis Meilland, Blue Girl, Sweet Drift, Playboy and Thrive and all produce huge hips. However, when I took pollen from a seperate bracteata population in Madisonville I had almost no hip production. I am new to this forum but perhaps we could trade seeds or seedlings in the future.
Howdy Andrew, first off, what temperature zone are you in, country or part of that country. With these crosses (Francis Meilland, Blue Girl, Sweet Drift, Playboy and Thrive ) did anything germinate? The reason why I asked your location is, its sometimes easier to stick it on some fertile China’s or Tea roses and then you go from there.
I tried using Mermaid pollen from a friends garden, and every year I had no success, I changed plants and presto seedlings. I think a lot of plants even though they maybe the same cultivar vary in small degrees of characteristics and fertility.
Here is a group of R. Virginiana F2 crosses showing foliage variation.
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the last one
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Well done Warren.
Thanks Irena , I hoping one of them will flower for me this year so I can proceed in the next step.
[attachment 1975 012K6L18.jpg] ((Wendy X (Europeana X Othello) X Dr A J Verhage) X (Hybrid Kordesii X R. virginiana)
[attachment 1976 012K1L47.jpg] (Hybrid Koresii X R. virginiana) X ( Wendy X Abraham Darby)
[attachment 1977 012K12L47.jpg] (Hybrid Koresii X R. virginiana) X ( Wendy X Abraham Darby)
I love the foliage on these Warren. Can’t wait to see the blooms.
Great looking plants there!
Tom I have just gone and dug a few rows out of town to put these in.
thanks Rob
This is a F1 Hybrid Kordesii X Rosa Virginina which at two years old has put out its first flower, a double (37 Petals) with a slight fruity perfume. The foliage of these crosses are extremely glossy. The dots on the leaves are not from spray residue but dust which had rain drizzle it.
