Rose Hybridizers Association Forum

Agree with pacificjade's observations. In my dabbles in spite of the huge hips I saw very low germination rates, but I was using diploid pollen if that mattered. I did manage to raise a few using Saffrano pollen, but gave the final keeper away due to not unexpected complete lack of fertility, but in...

Rob, OSO Happy Smoothie was easy to cross with for me and a strong influencer of offspring - fun rose. I've got a handful of Jersey Beauty x ((r. Multifora x Blush Noisette) x (r. Multifora x Blush Noisette)) Pollen parent is a repeater and is fragrant. They all look to be fragrant sprawlers with sm...

It's either GMO or just plain old bull shit. Utility patents are worthless, I want one!

RBx

I'm just an old hobbyist, but there are folks that read what we type that are legends.
I believe the genes required to beat Rose Rosette Disease are in the Native North American Roses.

RBx

Hypothesis: Some of our other North American species roses may also carry genes required to help fight off RRV: Consider if all of our native North American roses encountered a similar pathogen to RRV ages ago, and that Stellata, and Palusrtris, are the only ones that managed to hang on to the best ...

A dear friend of mine that I hold in high esteem recently told me that that by planting cultivars of slightly differing blooming periods close enough (very close) together that their roots intermingle, I could achieve simultaneous blooming. We were not discussing roses and he’s not a student of plan...

My Carefree Beauty is as healthy as Knock Out down here in Katy TX. It's from a cutting I took of one that I bought more than 20 years ago as "Katy Road Pink". Maybe it likes my climate or maybe it avoided contact with pathogens by being lost and then "found"? Or as Mr. Gump said, maybe both is happ...

Rose sap. What are the latest recommendations on handling and disposal of infected material?

RBx

Gig 'em Tom!

Does anyone Know where you can get Huntington’s 100th?

I can't get it to bloom at all much less repeat. I think you are right about being climate related. Didn't Viru collect his R. gigantea at considerable altitude? I'm in a low sauna, with basically a non-existent winter. If I remember correctly the good folks at Roses Unlimited told me that its sibli...

I'm on my fourth year with a couple of Amber Clouds and no blooms yet.

Figured it to bloom on old wood so I haven't pruned. They're just taking up a hell of a lot space and aching to be shovel pruned.

Has anyone on the Gulf Coast experienced similar difficulties? Any suggestions?

RBx

Old Blush has been around for a very long time so it would not surprise me that those from different sources may have changed a bit, but the one I have sets 1.5 to 2.0 cm hips with surprisingly large achenes that require only a mild stratification. Another call out for Blush Noisette, especially for...

If you don't mind going back to the basics, Old Blush, with over 19,000 named descendants is still about as fecund as they come and a healthy booger too in the right environment.

The threat of RRV has dampened my excitement somewhat because I have nothing going that will be resistant. I do have a few Jersey Beauty x Aloha with cotyledons peeking up - think New Dawn with more wichuraiana, or Belindas Dream with more wichuraiana, that could yield a fragrant remontant climber. ...

I've got a Jersey Beauty x Autumn Sunset peeking out today - that has a good chance to be a vigorous climber! Rob, for the previous one I'm hoping for a seed fertile, fragrant, remontant diploid that carries the disease resistance and increased cold resistance from multiflora and wichurana that I ca...

((R. multiflora x Blush Noisette) x (R. multiflora x Blush Noisette)) x Jersey Beauty was my first - in the fridge, in its baggie at that! I'd say about 30% of them sprouted in the cold dark icebox. The reciprocal cross did not germinate in its baggie, and none any of my other crosses did either. Go...

With all due respect, I wonder how many of us would now be on our current paths if not for Mr. Austin's efforts and successes? Was he not a champion of fragrance? Wouldn't we all like to create a Radler tough and Austin fragrant rose? While we all don't live in "English" environments, I can report o...

Congrats Dr. Z!

The follow-up.