How can I become an amateur rose breeder?

Question

I know how to raise and fertilize roses, but how can I breed and register roses of my own efforts. Most roses I can buy or tend to are hybrids and anyone who understands genetics knows that breeding hybrids can be a tricky and stunted endeavor. My real question becomes how can I begin breeding roses that I can call my own and not infringe upon some patent or registration. My final goal is that on my wife and my twentieth wedding anniversary I can give her a bouqet of twenty roses I can call by her name.

As I said before, I know how to raise and care for roses, but I'm looking more for the professional or amateur breeder's experience or knowledge or people who might know how to get involved in that game.

Thanks

Answer 1

here in tennessee we dont breed them we bud them onto another rose which will produce a rose with 2 different colors and 2 different types you can also put more than 1 bud on a rose you can go up to 5 they are out of this world and expensive to sell after a while 1 rose will start to atke on the color of the rose it is next to and it will turn into a stripped rose i did this with an azela once look up budding on the net from a nursery woman in tennessee