Natalie, I love Caldwell Pink but have never had any luck getting it to set hips. Mine is always the last rose to bloom and I wondered if it was to hot to set hips by the time it finally bloomed. What percentage of pollinations on Caldwell Pink set hips?
Jackie and David, to quote Paul Harvey, “and now the rest of the story.” My first goal when I began hybridizing roses was to create a yellow rose to name for my Dad because it was his favorite color. The first time Sugarbooger bloomed was on my oldest daughter’s birthday. While I was really pleased with the rose and its fragrance it was not the deep, rich yellow color that I wanted for my Daddy’s rose. Then I remembered that Dad’s pet name for my daughter was Sugarbooger and the name just seemed to fit, especially since it is a family tradition that my DH has carried on by calling our granddaughter Sugarbooger. I realize this is a personal name and if any nursery someday wants to give it a new name to market it, it will be OK with me. My hope is that this rose will be a bridge to my Daddy’s rose.
Kim hit the nail on the head! We use a blender to separate out the seeds from the flesh. I’ve been accused on more than one occasion of making salsa in the lab!! (Heaven already knows how much fun it is for me to explain to the lab inspector why there are peaches laying around the lab…I’d hate to see one come around during the rose seed extraction process!)
Joan,
The Caldwell Pink crosses are one of the grad students work. I recently moved all of the roses out that didn’t set hips, and I seem to remember moving a lot of Caldwell Pink out…but I know that a few did set hips. Very few.
There are a lot of great crosses listed up there. Now, maybe when I have time (say…December!) I can sit down and study them!!!
There were a lot more crosses that we did that I didn’t list. Mostly due to may laziness… I just hate to have to write things out like:
[(AxB)x(CxD)] x [(ExF)xG], etc…
I think I’ve mentioned before that I confuse myself easily, and if I just write out the name we call them (example: J06-14-20-2) it would be meaningless to everyone else.
I’ll have to try and make an effort sometime in the near future to sit down and write it all out. Then I’ll be able to share information more easily!
Natalie, I love the sound of the thornless wich x ‘Old Blush’ seedling… do you have any photos of it? I’d love to cross the thornless wich with ‘Perle d’Or’! I think that would be a cool, thornless, cross!
It wasn’t created using the thornless Wich, but this cross of Poterifolia X Old Blush has some of the sharpest prickles in the garden. It appears to want to rebloom with the weird weather this year, too. One day, I simply must get it into the ground! (same with all the many others!)
Yes, Kim… I’ve been watching those seeds diligently and still no joy… they aren’t hurting anyone so I will leave them to it and keep my fingers crossed.
Ya’ll should try Carefree MArvel instead of Rosa wich. I think it has the best of the more common Synstylae types. I havent tried it yet, but it can probably hold yellow better than the species can, as it seems to hold “true red” well in crosses performed.
‘Carefree Marvel’ is here… but I have never seen it available. Seems to be very similar to FCP which has been performing beautifully here as a breeder. It’s still the best of all the FC I think.
This group sure has a lot of great imagination! Lots of fantastic crosses listed up there!
I have been focusing more attention on the Hulthemias, all of which are seedlings, used both as seed and pollen parents. Last year, however (and this year too) I have been trying to improve black spot resistance in this group by using other roses known to have good resistance (Bill Radler’s roses, ‘Basye’s Thornless’, ‘Darlow’s Enigma’, ‘Francis Meilland’, along with some of my own cleaner roses). Additionally, I am continuing to work on blotch heat stability and have used a ton of mixed new Hulthemia seedling pollen in crosses with some of those listed above.
Thank you. Yes I did notice black spot on it, but less than most HT’s and it has very good powdery mildew resistance. I love the fragrance and vigor that it gives to its offspring.
The time was right for the roses finally so I started Sat. we’ll call it today. I was running hot and cold on thus venture and even now think there are only a handfull of worthwill roses to work with that i have, but as I got into it the possiblities seemed to increase. Foremost is to breed for horizontal resistance(the reason for only a handfull), next to get a good flower and also, many good seedlings from a cross. This is my goal this year all three things on one cross.
I was making good headway today when the mother of crosses arrived in the form of a swarm of honey bees right on one of my pink roses. I wasn’t able to keep the flower since the bee keeper took it along with the swarm, but it got me to thinking more pointedly how to use the pollen and am now collecting from this years seedlings along with other pollens.
Oh, the bee keeper said the sap was running good this year. For me this is the year of the pollen. Neil
Ya’ll should try Carefree MArvel instead of Rosa wich. I think it has the best of the more common Synstylae types. I havent tried it yet, but it can probably hold yellow better than the species can, as it seems to hold “true red” well in crosses performed.[/quote]
Sorry, it doesn’t live here. We tried to grow it several years ago and it either died of disease issues or heat issues (or a combo of both)…
I’ve noticed the last few days’ worth of crosses seem not to have taken. It’s either the dryness, the heat, or the fact that “Fa’s Marbled Moss” simply does not want to be crossed with “Dragon’s Blood.” Maybe it’s all the smoke in the air? Who knows…
Yeah, I know, why did I use Angel Face? Oh well, it had blooms ready and I just did it.
And for the first time I crossed a couple of my seedlings just for a trial.
MIP0206 X GypB0409
AC0110 X WAP0509
Mme Isaac Pereire is MIP, Gypsy Boy is GypB, Atlantic City is AC and What a Peach is WAP with the seedling number and the germination year. They were all seedlings from OP hips themselves. We’ll see what I get?!
And now I’m not sure anything will take because, wouldn’t you know it, it’s raining finally!