Behlgarden. Are you doing any seed trades or taking SASBE's. I am looking for rose seed to WS.

Congrats, Behlgarden! It's fun to do and watch them grow and bloom! I'll look forward to your picture, good luck!

Hi Ladyrose65, I will be happy to trade rose seeds, I am waiting on some monster sized hips to ripen in next few weeks. Roses on parent tree are monster size with deep fregrance.

seil, yes, cant wait, I will post pictures once I see first true leaf. My understanding is when germination of seed occurs, roots are the first ones to poke out of shell.

Thanks Behlgarden. I tried Winter Sowing some rose seeds, the reached about 1 inch and died back to nothing. I put Captan and cornmeal juice to try stopping them from dying off.
So let us know your soil mixture.

I germinate my seeds inside. I never had any luck winter sowing any kind of seeds. They froze or rotted and never came up. I do mine in damp paper towels in baggies in the fridge and when they germinate I put them in seed starter trays. That's what has worked best for me.

I did exactly how Seil does, in moist paper towerl in baggies in fridge, and when I see sprouting of roots, I moved them into seed starter mix from Miracle Gro in a pot and kept it on window sill. I am still waiting for leaves to come out, I understand that it may take a week or so for leaves to appear after sprouting of roots.

Lets see what I get

here it is, the leaves sprouting out of the pot, I am excited!
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Congratulations! It will grow quicker now that it's up. Looking forward to seeing what you get!

Got 6 more that poked green out of the pot. Now waiting for it to get a growth flush. these pots are sitting in my home at Southern window sill soaking good noon sun and flat 72 degrees heat from central heating.

Will post pictures when I get a set of true leaves.

On another note, I will have a lot of seeds that will ripe by the end of the month. let me know if anyone wants them.

After initial sprouting, the seedling sat there and now appears as if it wants to die. I have it at the window sill where it gets winter sun, however lately I have been turning on central heating and that may be what its not liking. I plan to move it out into the wild to die instead of dying inside.

It may be too dry, behl. Not the soil but the air. The heating brings down the ambient humidity. If you can put it on a tray of pebbles with water in it but not touching the bottom of the cup. That will bring up the humidity around the plant.

That could be it. I have a tray but bottom of pot sits in the pool of water thereby over watering the plant while the top of plant is losing moisture at fast pace. Will make a few changes and see what happens

Please post an updated!!!! Thank you!

Mercury,

That seedling died. THen I got caught into grafting fruits and roses. All my other seeds I ended up putting into ground and none came up. I have bigger plans for next time.

Right now I am loaded with jumbo size bubs and seeds are forming, I will definitely save seeds and even distribute online here for free. I want to taste success of growing from seed, I am desperate.