Liz,
Use Pretty Lady as the pollen parent. Trust me. It usually just likes to set OP and it produces masses of pollen easily.
Jadae, I’ve had reasonable luck with using Pretty Lady as the seed parent, but you are right it does produce tons of pollen.
Lydia, that is good to know. I’ll let the seed tray dry out and save it for next winter. Thanks for the tip.
Jadae:
“Have you thought of using Goldmarie? It has several doses of caninae types in it, which is my guess as to where cresting originates.”
Is Goldmarie even available? Sounds like it might be hard to find a copy.
Jeff
I’d also like to again obtain Goldmarie, anyone in Canada growing it? This rose is rather very hardy, blooms its head off and has excellent large shiny foliage … oh, and sure sets hips easily!
Terry
Would cuttings of Gold Marie help? I bought it for my kid sister a few years ago because it “spoke” to her. It’s in partial sun in Newhall, CA behind her house. I didn’t get any of the cuttings I took of it months ago to root, but there are more cuttings to be taken from it. It’s been nicely clean there. Kim
It rained nonstop in sunny California until last week, so, despite today’s 80 degree weather, not much has bloomed for me yet. My list is therefore:
- ragged robin x maiden’s blush
Early, yet 200 years too late?
There is a large bank of Goldmarie 82 in Peninsula Park in Portland, OR. Its off of the MLK Blvd. area (North Portland) so do not dress nice or make eye contact with anyone. Its a very old park maintained by the City of Portland. It looks like the late 1980s was frozen in time, but it is maintained well. Unfortunately, its in the gang area of Portland. However, its been the safest there in years due to college and police effort. At any rate, one could get cuttings or pollen from there.
I had grown Goldmarie several years back, always produced lots of blooms upon large healthy attractive foliage, the plant was also surprisingly hardy, I think it’s rated to zone 4. Blooms are richly colored and rather very nice upon opening, though like many yellow roses, it does not age the best. Oh, and the plant is very fertile.
Terry
Jeff,
Call Al’s Garden Center and have them hold a ‘Yellow Brick Road’ for ya. I am noticing a lot of very long, scented sepals now. Applejack is definitely leaving its thumbprint on this rose in the sepals – and possibly the health. This should be a good possibility for your goals.
As of today(sunday) the time was right. First cross was 29-2x29-3 last year seedlings. With 18 plastic cups of drying pollen of coarse a few other crosses where made such as Baron Gerod x Playboy because after collecting Playboy pollen my fingers where loaded and the Baron was ready and handy.
I am slowly catching up in crosses this year. I have made about 30 so far, which is not stellar, but amazing for this weather. I had to buy some cheap 1g Bonica’s from Home Depot to make up for the loss. I figured to keep them for a year then plant them as part of the mixed hedge next year. Sweetness has about 40 buds about to pop open over the next 2 weeks. It is in a sheltered posisition, much like my Coffee Bean is, so crosses are doable. It got dosed with s whole rainbow. Rosa virginiana, Henry’s Blend, Midnight Blue, and The Imposter. It was not my ideal solution, but maybe this stupid weather will force me to create possibilities that would not have been by my own plans. Sweetness is going to be loaded with about 8 different pollen types, lol.
I took some pollen off of the plant growing into the sidewalk in Saint Helens, OR. I think it is Personality. Its a Pernet type HT, makes a fountaining 6’ bush, and has never been touched since at least 2003. Yet, it thrives on neglect. I just have no clue where to use the pollen. I am trying to figure out a match where I can retain the old-world (Rosa foetida bicolor) phototropism into a much more compact plant. Which reminds me, I did Shot Silk x (Rosa canina x Baby Love). Talk about a shot from the past, lol. Shot Silk is one of the most beautiful roses ever, yet the plant sends up both 3’ and 6’ basals. Its like half of the plant wants to climb, and the other half wants to bloom. Amazingly, it does not BS here and the foliage is beautiful. I have a feeling it would rust for Kim, though, lol.
I started making crosses 4 days ago. First cross of the season was Prairie Celebration x Persian Flame. This is the third season that I have had Persian Flame and Persian Autumn. This is the first year that Persian Autumn has bloomed for me. Persian Flame bloomed the first year and I was able to make a couple of crosses with it onto Alberta. I have one seedling from that cross that will boom in a week or so. If that seedling has a blotch, I’m rushing out and buying a lottery ticket.
So far most of my crosses involve two sets of my seedlings, either (Alberta x John Cabot) seedlings using Baby Love pollen or (Fairhope x Carefree Beauty) x Baby Love mini seedlings using Prairie Celebration pollen.
Other seedling families that are getting Baby Love pollen are: (Prairie Harvest x Champlain), (Carefree Beauty x (Luis Deserarmo x John Cabot)), (Carefree Beauty x Distant Drums), (Gemini x William Baffin), and (Carefree Beauty x Julia Child).
I have also played around with some Paintbrush pollen. Putting it on a Morden Sunrise x WIlliam Baffin seedling and also on a mossed Gemini x Scarlet Moss seedling. I have one mini moss seedling from Paintbrush x John Cabot from 2010 crosses and plan on making more of that cross. John Cabot should be blooming by the weekend and Paintbrush is loaded with buds.
Liz
It appears that my first cross of the year Honey Perfume X About Face has set a nice plump hip. However, after making almost 100 crosses it is going to be a poor crop of hips. We are experiencing the 2nd drought in three years and the warmest spring in history which has now turned into day after day of 100 degree temps. that now stretch out far on the horizon.
I am optimystic though, maybe the new roses from this year’s crosses will be especially tough. I am still evaluating crosses made during the '09 drought and they are performing quite nicely.
Believe it or not, things are just starting to bloom here! First cross was R. woodsii ultramontana x (I was about to say vs.) a mystery Alba from the Rose Ditch.
Things are shaping up lately. A lot of crosses are getting done, finally. Some are definitely “Ah, crap, this isnt what I had planned,” and some are exactly what I had planned. For example, [Sweetness x (Rosa canina x Baby Love)] or Birthday Girl x Rose Gilardi. I’m definitely feeling better about things, although it is still raining off and on. I think I have about 15 different pollen parents on Coffee Bean simply because the poor thing is under cover, LOL! Its a nice parent, though, so whatever.
Simply to contrast things, I have orange hips on several of the Fed. hybrids; some of the Legacy hips are turning colors as are the ones on the 1-72-1Hugonis. More modern things which haven’t aborted for one reason or another, are still green and swelling like mad. Our “June Gloom” is about to end, within three days, they expect triple digits in these parts. I’m ready to head to the Southern Hemisphere for the season! LOL! Kim
First cross was Fabulous! x Brass Band. Hips are 2 months in now and looks like a few seeds in each hip. The pollen wasn’t very fertile as evidenced by this and crosses on other mother plants. I also used Bees Knees pollen on Fabulous! and that took well.
I also crossed a seedling of mine registered as “Hot Salsa!” (Louise Estes x Marilyn Monroe - photo link at the bottom) with a new hybrid “Sugar Moon”. Hot Salsa! is a great hip setter so I’m really anxious to see the babies on this one.
I also used Paul Ecke, Jr pollen on a number of plants, but the seedlings resulting from this cross were on the whole not very healthy.
Link: www.flickr.com/photos/31633192@N06/5856695644/in/photostream
Well my first crosses were made with pollen from Rainbow Niagara and applied on everything. All I have marked on the tags are the dates. I have some striped seedlings from last years’ batch of seeds that look very good, some very odd color combinations too.