We bought some cut, long stemed roses. They are beginning to wilt. Can I take the seeds from them and germintate them?
2006-11-29 12:04:01 · 4 answers · asked by sirprizeme139 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
No they are CUT FLOWERS as you stated. They will never make it long enough to form rose hips.
However if you go on line and type in Jackson and Perkins Roses. If it is still in business, they were the people I bought my BARE ROOT roses from when I grew roses commercially, before the price of heating the greenhouses forced me to change to other crops. Good Luck
2006-11-29 14:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by bugsie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The formation of the seed within the rosehip typically takes longer than the life of the bloom, and typically takes a good deal of energy from the roseplant which is why gardeners deadhead spent roses.
It would seem unlikely that you'd find any seeds in a cut rosehip.
Most modern roses are not grown on their own roots. So if you did by some chance find some seeds, and they were somehow ripe enough and you did get them to grow, the plant you get may or may not be strong enough grow well, or to bloom on its own.
Farmers who grow roses don't make any attempt to separate pollen out from different plants. So, if your own seeds came from a section of the rosery where two or more kinds of roses were growing, you wouldn't necessarily get the color or shape you wanted after all that trouble.
Better to ask the florist if they know the name of the variety of the rose, find out if it's available outside of the commercial trade, and buy it bare-root.
2006-11-29 12:59:52 · answer #2 · answered by aseachangea 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the seeds will only ripen properly on the plant, not on a cut flower stem. there isnt enuff energy in the stem to produce good seed.
2006-11-29 20:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by mickey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes u can then they will turn out great
2006-11-29 12:17:03 · answer #4 · answered by shaniece a 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋