Rosarians are the perfect candidate to back breed a plant. Huh? Wah?
Break out your favorite seeds, and wintersow all of them. Tease any survivors out of their WS container and into cells. By year three; you should have bloom and an established growing habbit.
Select those that most closely match the parent (seeing as each rose could have eight or more ancestors 'close" may be in the eye of the beholder). Trade-give away-behead the culls.
You can now hand pollinated rose (and segregate them in a muslin bag). Repeat enough times to refill your seed stash. These will be your F-1 generation.
By F-4 you will either be closing back in on the rose that got you started, or will be off on a new tangent.
All of your friends will avoid you and your garden.
