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Jun 14, 2010 1:32 PM CST
Name: Alan
Chandler, AZ; 85225 (Zone 9b)
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Ok...you know those seeds may not even look remotely close to like the bush they came from, right? You must be aware that the you can start many, many, many seeds, and only come up with a 1 nice rose. Is this worth all the time you put into it? When I did mine, I must have had 200 seeds started. Only about 12 made it through the first summer, and the pink one I mentioned was the only one I kept. And it is not a superb rose. it only has two flushes a year. One in the spring, and one in the fall, Th rest the year it has a rose here and a rose there. So I would not consider it a rose that would make it on the market. I just kept it because I like it, and it did end up thornless of all things...so you should prepare yourself to expect that. Also, how old are those rose seeds Alma. The best time to collect your rose seeds is as the hips are ripening. It looks like those hips were already dried out and so the pulp around the seed has dried out around the seed and may be harder to get off. You can try them, but I'm not sure how viable they will be. Again, I've only done seeds once, so my experience is extremely limited. Here is a link to how I did my rose seeds.

http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/man...

Alan

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