Rose Hybridizers Association Forum

Last October I planted a lot of rose seeds outside in pots of compost mixed with perlite. I got them from a variety of hips, some very red, ripe and mushy and some still green but the seeds inside them looked as though they were fully formed. Where I am on the south coast of England, zone 9, we have...

Thanks everyone for wonderful answers. I read through everything and it does seem that the book was using the word "identical" loosely, and not genetically identical as in identical twins. Maybe the phenotype looks extremely similar, most of the time. It takes a lot of energy for a plant to make see...

I do frequently suggest when learning to germinate rose seedlings, you go find all the self set hips from your garden or any other around you that you have access to and raise those. First, it shows you which roses you have access to makes good seed parents. Second, it allows you a supply of seeds ...

Climate might affect the seed by epigenetics, which is when acquired characteristics are passed on to future generations by DNA methylation. I was just reading somebody's post about that, interesting. Lamarck predicted epigenetics, and Darwin supported his theory, but it was only recently taken seri...

I am a beginner, new to this forum, and live on the south coast of England. I have been reading a lot of the threads on here with great interest. I did study biology to A level, but understanding the science will take a huge amount of effort for me. One of the ideas people here seem to say a lot is ...