Rose Hybridizers Association Forum

We were looking for Rosa x kordesii for a black spot research study to understand if it may be the source/share the same black spot resistance gene that is in many of the Explorer series of roses. It was very hard to find R. x kordesii in the US. A friend from CA was very kind and shared a couple cu...

Hi Chuck! I'm not sure of its story. I saw it for sale online through J&P a couple years ago and was excited to try it because it is yellow. It grows like a mini and I forgot if they sold it as a mini or shrub. There was no code or variety name in small print associated with the marketing or tag. I'...

I haven't seen 'Twinkling Lights' for sale in a year or so, but Jackson and Perkins was selling it. The yellow color is very rich and doesn't seem to fade much at all. Unfortunately, it doesn't set any hips. I tried some of its pollen and have to check to see if any hips are forming using it.

In the Twin Cities area there is a special school fundraiser plant sale Mother's Day weekend that is huge now. They bring in a lot of plant material from Jeffries in Canada and many other nurseries too. I got an 'Olds College' last year and 'Chinook Sunrise' this year. I love the double warm colored...

That rose of your friend's Kim is very beautiful!

Your seedling is beautiful!! I love the dense habit and richly colored blooms.

The variegated seedlings from this spring posted above for the most part don't look too healthy. The variegation seems to be less pronounced than before and lead to the leaves being smaller and kind of mottled and off color. I shared some for virus testing and it'll be interesting if something is fo...

Thanks everyone! For the water in the pollen germination assays I've just used RO or distilled water in the lab. That is a good question how much city water with chlorine or water with various minerals would impact the results.

I was visiting with a rhododendron breeding friend last week and she says she uses honey on stigmas when she emasculates and doesn't want to wait a day or so for the natural secretions to build so she can pollinate right away more effectively. I saw her make some pollinations. She uses raw unfiltere...

Thank you for posting this Henry! A challenge is that sometimes the symptoms look a bit different from cultivar to cultivar, but it is great to have as many pictures of the range of symptoms for each virus as possible to have a good starting point. For Rose Yellow Mosiac Virus, for instance, not all...

I think I read Burling has obtained stock from FPS, if available, for the cultivars she sells. I forgot the details now, but that is why I think I ordered 'Crimson Glory' from her years back.

Thank you Henry for posting this!! I appreciate that you are quick at finding rose literature and sharing it with others on the forum. It is nice to have strong connections with trade magazines to have articles like this each year to get our word out about the program and the new winners. It is nice...

It is a bit slower growing and weaker and it is a single soft pink.

It is great that the PowerPoints are listed. I especially love being able to see the roses that have and have not shown symptoms yet of RRD in the Oklahoma and other trials and learning about some of the techniques being developed and are available for RRD detection.

That sounds really cool Joe!!! Thank you for the great idea!!! I have one A&B rose in a pot and should try that. It is usually just a good male. That is great higher temperatures may help with overcoming more than just some of the typical self-incompatibility limitations.

I love your crosses Roselynn! We got to -33F in the Twin Cities this past winter and more newer cane hardy rugosa rose hybrids would sure be great. Here 'Snow Pavement' gets mildew too, but not super bad. I sure love the silvery lavender color. It'll be exciting when more and more of your hybrids bl...

Andrew gave a great tour of the breeding program for the NCPN-R meetings there at the Antique Rose Emporium that he leads with owner Michael Shoup.

Thank you Henry and Philip! It was a huge undertaking and took a lot of collaboration, volunteers, etc. to make it possible. To respond to some of the points you mentioned Philip, yes the goal was to especially trial roses that haven't been tested in the Earth-Kind manner before and only use a coupl...

Those are great questions. It seems like with polyploid series like you mentioned Philip that the higher ploidy is found in the more harsh/severe end of the range. What I've heard is that polyploid allows for more alleles to be housed within the plant from which to hopefully accumulate alleles that ...

There is a new article studying unreduced/2n gametes in roses. Below is the link. I feel the authors did a great job studying this topic. There are some typos, lack of capitalization of rose cultivars, etc. In some of these open access journals there is often less quality control. They cited my 2009...