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Hi, I'm Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm well I'm doing some work on my seeds tonight And so I thought it might be a good time to make a video on how to grow roses from seed both how to do it and what You can expect if you grow roses from seed so Getting right to it This I harvested from my garden today, and it is a ripe Rosehip from Rosa rugosa Alba You can see the orange color there this indicates both by the timing and by the color and looks of the and feel of the rosehip so that's that it's a Ripe rosehip also in the garden. You can have different types of rose hips and From earlier I also got this one here, which is from a Scots rose variety Then it darkens to black color doesn't make a difference It's really about timing and softness when you harvest it and that the seeds inside are ready, so I'm going to show you on this one here how to get the seeds out and This one you can just very easily break it apart you can see there's a whole ton of different seeds in there and These ones are a pale tan color These ones here were harvested a while back and actually the hips I dried It doesn't matter I just pulled them off the bush and put them on a counter somewhere and they dried out between the time I harvested them and now so what I did so just threw them in a glass of water and see the tannins from the From the rose hips bleeding into the water but that softens them up to the point where then I can break these open quite easily and see what's inside and See on this one here. Let's see what we found. Yeah. There's a nice beautiful seed in the center and on this one here It's got a dark brown seed covering same thing both or will should be perfectly viable seeds just these ones are tan and these ones Were dark brown now once you have the seeds the next step you have to do is you have to fool them So roses are smart They have this idea that if they ripen by their fruit in one season that if those fruits drop to the ground and by some circumstance got buried or favorable conditions in that first year they do not want their seeds to germinate the reason for that is because By that time by the time the the hips are ripe the seeds is so late in the season that if the seeds germinated They'd be going right into the winter season and they wouldn't survive so they Build in inhibitors to the seeds that stop them from germinating right away in fact what they need is they need to feel moisture and cold for a period of two to three months Before they will go ahead and let those seedlings germinate so for my purposes what I do is I want to Fool them I take the seeds like this Take off a bunch of the ripe ones here And you can clean them, or wash them, and that's fine what I'll do is. I'll get myself a little Tupperware container or sealing container here and inside of it is moist vermiculite vermiculite, it's just a material that holds moisture and air and isn't likely to get waterlogged so that's why I use that and What I'll do with that it'll take it into that container there And put a layer of seeds into the container cover them up in some vermiculite you can do that in something like this or even in just a ziplock bag like that and Then put them into the fridge and the average temperatures in your fridge are appropriate you know approximately To show those seeds that they've gone through a winter period and the timing you can expect as mentioned is about three months so coming from right around now end of October that means my Stratification step to putting them in the fridge step Will be done at the end of January which is a bit early for me in my greenhouse conditions I usually do this work somewhere mid November late November so that mid February or late February that's when I can expect the seeds to be ready and towards the end of the vernalization period in the fridge you may look in here and Find that the seeds have started to actually sprout which isn't great in the fridge because they don't get the light they don't get heat They'll actually suffer quite a lot on and they'll stretch out and by the time you put them into the ground They probably won't be viable so you want to catch that quickly if you start to notice Any number of seeds in that in that container starting to Sprout that's probably time to get them out of the fridge get them into the greenhouse and and start growing them into healthy seedlings, so now the next part of the question is and this is actually the more difficult

But maybe the more interesting part is What can you expect when you germinate these seeds from the garden in the case of this one here? That's the Rosa rugosa Alba I mentioned what you're probably going to expect is something similar to the parent now I can't say that safely because the bees do their work, and they move the pollen from plant to plant But this plant here is slightly Genetically incompatible with most of the garden roses I grow so it's more likely to Self-fertilize the pollen from its own flowers gets transferred to its own flowers that's viable and it and it and it fertilizes it and so now you have a seed where this plant is both parents or It's likely to if it's in the garden with my other plants Crossbreed with another plant that's similar enough to it that it can still make viable offspring last year I did approximately ten of these from Rosa rugosa Alba what I found was that seven of the ten were white just like the parent and Looked just like the parent and acted just like the parent and three of them were very very similar But they had pink flowers instead, just like Rosa rugosa the straight species or rubra and So that's what you can kind of expect out of this plant now you go to Complex garden roses the bred garden roses And it's a different story with those ones there They have really really complex parentage 'as you can't expect that it was just a straight species any time recent up into the say the Grandparents or great-grandparents as that rose, so let's say you took a rose like Wild Blue Yonder Which was a great rose I grow it in my garden love it a lot and I had it alone and let the bees do their thing and they only pollinated it with itself, and I knew that I Still wouldn't expect that the offspring would be very much like the parent you might have some similar characteristics But out of a hundred seedlings you might not find one. That's very close to wild blue yonder and left alone in the garden With other roses that could easily crossbreed with it because most of them the modern bred roses will crossbreed with each other fairly easily You know it's like playing the lottery except that with a lottery ticket You don't have to feed and water and prune and take care of the ticket for three years before you know Whether you have one or not so it's a bit of a commitment It's bit of a hobby and You can see why Rose breeders When it's a pretty serious thing what they do is they improve their chances by choosing the parents and actually Taking and transferring pollen from one to another so they'll they'll know the parentage and they also have a trained Eye So they can figure out what they're looking for very quickly and look for cues and the health and and growth habits of the seedlings As they progress they it's quite a quite a serious art and science that the breeders do For a guy like me who hasn't done a lot of breeding or any breeding at all Or for most gardeners probably, it's just a matter of fun hobby, and then of course There's the chance that if you get an eye for it and a knack for it and you like doing it Then you can proceed into the hobby and start making Determined crosses of your own for for specific characteristics, and that's kind of a neat hobby, and there's actually a really cool tradition of amateur rose breeders Contributing quite a lot to the to the advancement of modern roses so you know I definitely wouldn't rule it out that you're gonna find something cool or that you're gonna work towards something cool and This is the way you would do it But for me in practical terms what I can do is I can use the species roses like this Ragosa and rubrifolia and the scots rose that aren't Genetically compatible with each other I can plant seedlings And I can have some fair confidence that the seedlings will be a lot like the parents And it's a good way for me to increase my roses And and have some fun doing it So thank you so much for watching the video to make and if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. Thanks

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