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Making It Grow How to CrossPollinate Roses
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Clemson Extension Agent Jonathan Windham shows us how to cross-pollinate roses to create your very own hybrids with a process that takes about 10 steps and only a few minutes! • • Here is a written guide to help you cross-pollinate your roses: • 1. Select one plant to be the mother and one plant to be the father. • 2. Collect anthers from the father plant and dry overnight to release pollen grains. • 3. Select a flower bud on the mother plant. The sepals should be split enough to just see the color of the petals beneath. • 4. Remove the sepals and petals from the flower bud. • 5. Emasculate the flower bud by cutting away the stamens (the stamens are filaments + anthers. The filaments are the stalks that the anthers sit on). • 6. Place pollen from the father plant onto the stigmas of the mother plant (the stigmas are in the center of the flower). • 7. Label your cross using the formula mother name x father name (the mother plant always comes first when writing out lineages). • 8. If the cross was successful, a hip will form. • Note: Pollination and fertilization are two separate events in plant breeding. Pollination just means pollen was applied to the stigmas, fertilization means that sperm and egg successfully united. • 9. Harvest the hip when it’s ripe (it will be red, orange, or yellow) and remove the seeds. • 10. Place seeds in a Ziploc bag with some slightly moist potting soil and store in fridge through the winter. • 11. Plant seeds in spring and enjoy being surprised by your new rose hybrid! • Fun fact: The “seeds” that are in the hip of a rose are technically “achenes” and not seeds at all, but most people just describe them as seeds. • Special thanks to Jonathan Windham for doing this demonstration and helping in the making of this video! • DID YOU LIKE THIS STORY? • • VISIT US ONLINE: http://www.mig.org • LIKE US: / makingitgrow • FOLLOW US: / makingitgrow
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