By growing a population of self pollinated seedlings from a prospective breeder, you discover that it has some serious genetic flaws that disqualify it as a breeder. This would be one of those times :-/
Freaky thing and kind of scary. BTW, I just fell in my DA "Teasing Georgia" this morning and almost walked away with a crown of thorns. I remember reading an article you wrote about a friend of yours that experiences the same. I lay there laughing about it with thorns piercing me everywhere. Now my neigbours think I am a freak. :)
Your call.. you've got a good name for it and everything... 'Wretched' has a kinda of a ring to it ;) Nothing says love like a whole bunch of 'Wretched'
Is that genetic or due to our three month long cold rainy March? I had a lot of the flowers on my otherwise normal Perle d'or look like that. The other roses balled and rotted by Perle d'or was like a walking onion in that the petals were stunted and it was sprouting from the center? Any ideas?
Maybe you should contact Meilland... I reckon you're on a winner here ;)
ReplyDelete*laughs*
ReplyDeleteMethinks one of these in commerce is plenty!
Freaky thing and kind of scary. BTW, I just fell in my DA "Teasing Georgia" this morning and almost walked away with a crown of thorns. I remember reading an article you wrote about a friend of yours that experiences the same. I lay there laughing about it with thorns piercing me everywhere. Now my neigbours think I am a freak. :)
ReplyDeleteYour call.. you've got a good name for it and everything... 'Wretched' has a kinda of a ring to it ;) Nothing says love like a whole bunch of 'Wretched'
ReplyDeleteNow if you could only get those proliferations in it to be blue or black instead of green, you could call it "Birds' Nest."
ReplyDeleteIs that genetic or due to our three month long cold rainy March? I had a lot of the flowers on my otherwise normal Perle d'or look like that. The other roses balled and rotted by Perle d'or was like a walking onion in that the petals were stunted and it was sprouting from the center? Any ideas?
ReplyDeletewhat line did it come out from?
ReplyDeletePatrick,
ReplyDeleteIn this case, the flaw is genetic: 3/4 of this cross has some degree of proliferation.
George,
This is from a batch of self pollinated seeds from an un-named Ralph Moore orange and yellow striped Floribunda.