Sunday, March 18, 2018

Best of 2017 Seedlings

The 2018 rose seedlings are just beginning to show their first flower buds and should start blooming in 10-14 days (see second photo below).  In the meantime, here is a collage of some of the best from 2017.


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  1. Beautiful babies Jim. My seedlings aren't far behind yours. Such an exciting time of year!

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    1. Thank you Joseph! It is such a wonderful time of the year. I especially love seeing the brand new never before seen blooms!

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  2. There are some real beauties there, Jim! Congratulations! I find the bottom right one particularly striking.

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    1. Thank you Kim! All of these survived greenhouse culling and are potted up outside and should start blooming by this time next month. I will try to repeat the collage with photos of outdoor blooms.

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  3. Wow, wish I had the capability to sow roses like you, but I am to sloppy. I love to see how they thrive in the coming time. Lots of succes, Groetjes,Hetty

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    1. Thank you Hetty! I hope that you are also planting rose seeds. It's okay not to keep records and just see what you get!

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  4. You have some beauties there. I like them all.

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  5. Only indirectly related, but having read some posts of your on rosebreeders.org you mention you heavily cull for powdery mildew, I also read another thread that fragrance and powdery mildew may be connected (but didn't seem to be a universal opinion)....so I'm wondering given you're heavy selection against powdery mildew do you have many fragrant results?

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    1. Fortunately, I’m still getting some good fragrance on powdery mildew resistant seedlings.

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