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First Seedling to Bloom!
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Posted by lucretia1 7/8 PNW (My Page) on Fri, Jul 3, 09 at 21:56
Last fall I decided to try starting some rose seeds. Today my first seedling bloomed! An open pollinated seedling from Scarlet Moss. The flower is about as big as a thumbnail, and the color is even a little deeper red than shown in the photo. I am off to do a happy dance!
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| Way to go! I hope to have my first seedling grow next season. It looks like a nice rose. CJ |
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| How beautiful! Great job! |
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| Thanks for the encouragement! And something even more exciting--this little cutie smells good, too! In spite of the fact that I made a lot of mistakes with it (that moisture-holding soil and rain do NOT mix) it's doing pretty well, I think. I'm encouraged enough to try more this year. Definitely a learning curve to this. I'm very exciting about the coming year. I tried intentionally pollinating only one rose this year, and it's setting a hip. I hadn't looked up the genetics to see if the parents are compatible, so I don't know if anything will come of it--I was just out in the yard, desecrated the seed parent and stuck some pollen from another plant on it. Did some hi-tech identification by tying a long blade of grass around the stem, and now it's working on a big fat hip. Next year I might try getting more serious about collecting pollen and planning crosses more carefully, but as a "just for fun" project, it's pretty neat. |
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