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Can someone help clear up Mystery- Rose; Complete Color Change

Posted by amity 10-S.Calif. (My Page) on
Fri, May 15, 09 at 12:30

Hello Everyone!

I hope I'm in the correct Rose catagory...if not, could someone please direct me to where I should be posting this question.

A few years ago my neighbor was doing a hard prune on what she told me was an Iceberg Rose.
I took a few cuttings, planted in moist planting soil and up came a wonderful, little white rose vine.
I transplanted it into the ground at the base of a huge arbor and now the Iceberg is a wonderful focal point when I walk out into the yard.

When I pruned the vine in November I took a couple cuttings, traded some and stuck a few of them in some moist soil in a clean 4" pot and pretty much forgot about them.

Back in November another neighbor was cutting back her Joseph's Coat and we traded..... cuttings from my Iceberg for cuttings from her Joseph's.

My Joseph's took off, went crazy with long vines and big, beautiful blooms.

I have a huge, I mean HUGE planter that I wanted to use to divide a seating area.

I thought it would look nice to have the Joseph's Coat in the huge planter....orange shades of color, with the white blooms of the Iceberg mixed in.

That's not what's happening!
What was supposed to be a little, white, Iceberg bloom is coming up hot pink...dark hot pink...what happened to my Little WHITE Iceberg Roses? Can anyone explain?


Here is my Iceberg vine over a very large, wide arbor.
Ten Ft. Tall Arbor w/ Iceburg Rose Vine

Here is my Joseph's Coat Vine trailing over the sides of a huge planter.
Josephs Coat Vine in huge planter

This is what is coming from the cutting of the WHITE Iceberg Rose
How did this hot pink little rose come from Iceburg Rose?

What was supposed to be a white little rose against a backdrop of Joseph's Coat Rose Vine.
Photobucket


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RE: Can someone help clear up Mystery- Rose; Complete Color Chang

I will bet that if you trace the stems that those hot pink blooms are on, they will emerge from the plant below the graft joint. Many hybrid roses are grafted on a root stock known as 'Dr. Huey'. They are not "own root" roses. (Older heirloom varieties more often grow on their own roots - like the 'Cecile Brunner' in my yard) Dr. Huey produces blooms the same color as those you show in the photo. My understanding is that if you cut the hybrid graft back too far, you will have this problem. I think you are stuck with the pink blooms at this point. :-( Actually, I have a spare Iceberg bush that I can cut back and ship if you have something you would like to trade!


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RE: Can someone help clear up Mystery- Rose; Complete Color Chang

I see clodsley's point, but if the iceberg rose grew from cuttings, isn't it, by definition, an own root rose?


 
 

 

 


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