WHY HYBRIDIZE ROSES

Collecting, storing, and utilizing pollen

How many times should one pollinate an important cross?

Why cover the hips after pollination?

Why spray the hips with hormones 7-14 days after pollination?

Should one pollinate with pollen from rose mosaic virus infected roses?

Should One Discard Rose Seeds That Float?

When to Harvest Rose Hips?

Effect of Outside Temperature When the Hips Are Picked On Germination of Seeds

How to Remove the Seeds From the Hips

Enzyme Effects On Germination

Rose Seeds and Stratification

Use of Red Light During Seed Germination

Discussion of Which Fluorescent Light is Best For Germination

Considerations when setting up your red light experiments

Experimental use of red light-emitting diodes during stratification

Experimental Use of Ethylene to Enhance Germination

Does the pollen parent affect the time needed to germinate?

Experiment Using SoilGard (Gliocladium virens)

What to do when seeds sprout

Search for a rose in a public garden

R. Laxa Retzius in late fall.

Search (5-29-2000) for all roses which have R. rugosa as the seed parent.

 Search (5-29-2000) for all roses which have R. rugosa as the pollen parent.

Rosa Rugosa literature articles: 1988-2000

  Search (5-30-2000) for all roses that have R. wichuraiana as pollen parent.

Hydrogen Peroxide For Sick Seedlings

Method that I use to "Harden Off" my Seedlings

Rose Seed Starting Method that I used with A Sunroom

My Present (winter 2006-7) Rose Seed Starting Method

Seeds germinated  winter-spring  2000

Seeds germinated winter-spring 2004

Seeds germinated winter-spring 2005

Seeds germinated spring 2006

List of best 2004 and 2005 seedlings

Sample notebook picture

numbers used for seedlings and commercial roses in my notebooks

My summer 2003 rose hips sorted by seed parent.

My summer 2003 rose hips sorted by pollen parent

My summer 2004 rose hips.

My 2006 rose hips (crosses) sorted by seed parent

My 2006 rose hips (crosses) sorted by pollen parent

Repeat blooming seedlings from the 2004 or 2005 "class"

Lazy man's Chromosome Doubling Experiment

Two tables regarding acid treatment of seeds

My gibberellic acid experiment

A table regarding treatment of hips with gibberellins

Illusion - one of my best mothers

Preparation of tetraploids with rugosa genes - use of R. glauca.

Pictures of hips from species roses

Most used pollen parents (10 or more uses)

Most used seed parents (10 or more uses)

 

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