Rose Hybridizers Association Forum

This is pretty neat!! I can see some of the advances they made hopefully being applied to clean roses up of virus. It is challenging to grow some roses in culture from meristems to get clean stock and then root them once it is time to come out. Being able to graft short stems of struggling tissue th...

Hi Rob!! I'm glad you like and are using 'Gaye Hammond'. That sounds like a wonderful cross. I love its vigor. I knew it was special as a first year seedling and took a number of cuttings of it while it was on the plant stand the winter it germinated before planting it out. It's glossy leaves and vi...

They are sure small and blend in well. They scrape the lower sides of the leaves leaving a "window paning" effect. There are 3 species around here in the Twin Cities area. Two have just one cycle per year and after June the new growth is okay. The bristly rose sawfly/slug has multiple cycles per yea...

Hi Stefan! :0) I'll do my best to keep it going and post some follow ups when it blooms. It has a flower bud set. A variegated Knock Out would sure be pretty with the nice otherwise dark leaves and richly colored flowers. This polyantha's mom is a single blush white. It would sure be fun to have a r...

I love the look of the Fracis Meilland sport! With the edges being more consistently white, I wonder if it is a periclinal chimera with just the outermost layer of the growing point being mutated to not produce chlorophyll. I suspect mutated chloroplasts may be the reason for the attached variegated...

Here is a paper that Dr. Kermani and her colleagues have reporting on chromosome doubling the triploid rose 'Iceberg'. The hexaploid interestingly is soft pink. http://www.irjabs.com/files_site/paperl ... 104925.pdf

Hi Matt! I like Karl's description. I've done a lot of doubling and also finding haploids in roses. The differences in thickness of plant parts, etc. due to ploidy exist, but need to be considered in reference to genetic background. For instance, diploid rugosa foliage is thicker and larger than bot...

I'm glad you are going to work with that Ark-op :0). I haven't had the opportunity to use it very much yet, but from my limited experience it is a little challenging to get seeds from either way and is a little better dad. I think it is a little finicky for the right combination that would take, jus...

I haven't seen rust on Ark-OP, but we don't typically have too much rust here. This one seems to be a hybrid with something neighboring (likely one of the Carefree BeautyTM seedlings growing nearby). It is an op of a stippled Rosa arkansana I dug up along the highway in Morris, MN.

Has anyone tried Rosa arvensis plena? http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.5261&tab=1 Does it set hips? I love that R. arvenesis is reported to have shade tolerance (grows in forest understories) and downy mildew resistance. I've been having more trouble with downy mildew recently. It was r...

Over the years I assumed the seedlings with more reddish color early on would make darker colored flowers. I haven't followed any through to see if that truly is the case or not. Have others tested this? I potted up some reddish and more soft yellow seedlings separately from the same family and hope...

It sounds wonderful Kim! Hmmm. I studied Easter lilies for my doctorate and aspects of flowering was a part of my thesis. Temperatures below 70F can be perceived as chilling to Easter lilies, even though if the temperatures are below 50F the chilling hours (high 30's best) can speed along the chilli...

Hi Kim! That's fascinating!! I wonder what environmental cues are allowing for the reliable rebloom. What an amazing climate you live in!

Here is a link to a pdf from a talk Fabrice and his group put together on this work. https://colloque.inra.fr/rgc8/content/d ... oucher.pdf

Here's another article that is a little bit similar in describing situations where roses have been used to monitor/improve the environment. http://www.globalsciencebooks.info/Onli ... 2-165o.pdf

Dr. Fabrice Foucher and his team have done a lot of great work understanding flowering in roses and also associated species like strawberries. Here is a link to one of their papers https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04776.x There is a key general gene found in many plan...

Yesterday I was potting up some early germinating polyanthas and am excited there were two sets of twins that shared the same testa (seed coat). Most of the time the smaller twin has half as many chromosomes as the main seedling and has the same genetic constitution as the originating unfertilized e...

There is the nice paper by Dr. Andy Roberts and others from 1999 where they looked at the role of gibberellins on flowering in some roses. It seemed like that from their experiments that flower initiation in the roses they were working with occurred in very early spring as the roses were waking up a...

Hi Henry, at the meeting the presentations helped to update the group on the progress being made in various projects and efforts related to roses and clean stock. There was discussion along the way after each talk with a short time for Q&A and then plenty of time over meals and breaks for people to ...

Hi Everyone!! The PowerPoint presentations from last summers National Clean Plant Network-Roses meetings are now posted. Hopefully the pictures and outlines with bullet points of the talks will provide a pretty good idea of of the messages conveyed. The RRD material I think is especially valuable fo...