My Very First Seedling

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Though I feel like a kindergartner bringing home a sprouted marigold seed, here it is: my first rose (and only currently) rose seedling. The poor little flower has been baked and eaten by aphids the whole time it has been trying to grow. I know most rose seedlings should be culled but I'm still beaming like a proud mama.

I have no idea who the parents are as I picked hips off dying roses in front of an boarded up house. Probably HTs.

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seil zone 6b MI

10 years ago

Congratulations! It's lovely! Don't worry about keeping it. I still have a couple of my very first ones too from 2006. They're nothing to write home about but they're mine and they grew so I kept them! They're planted out in the garden and are now about 4 feet tall and wide.

I would also say that since your seedling has bloomed it would be fine to go ahead and fertilize it now. Just be careful. I'd go maybe half strength or less on the fertilizer to start out. As soon as you see some roots coming out the bottom pot it up one size (or plant it in the ground) so it will keep growing.

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nikthegreek
10 years ago
Well, it seems you have been partly lucky in it not being a pink SINGLE one..
Anne Zone 7a Northern CA
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10 years ago
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Yes, that is one thing :) I hope tonight as I lay in bed I don't hear it say, "FEEEED ME".
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User
10 years ago
..how exciting... congratulations... something I've always wanted to do...
Anne Zone 7a Northern CA thanked User
User
10 years ago
Pretty! I like that foliage, too.

My limited experience with rose seedlings that have actually flowered doesn't make me much of an expert, but I will say that the first flower does not always look exactly like the later ones.

Mazel tov!

Virginia
Anne Zone 7a Northern CA thanked User
User
10 years ago
Scented?
Anne Zone 7a Northern CA
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10 years ago
It is some, it is terribly hot right now so I'm not outside as much but last evening I caught an old rose scent off it. Ended up with 18 petals. It has another little bud forming, wonder what it will have as far as petal count, if it doesn't wither in the heat.