When breeding a new variety of roses professionally, everything begins
with crossing two plants. In order to transfer the desired
characteristics to a new rose variety, it is not enough to cross just
one generation with a mother plant. Characteristics such as an intense
scent can skip several generations and then suddenly reappear in the
great-grandchild. It is therefore difficult to predict what properties
the new rose will ultimately have.
If you want to cross two roses together, you first select a mother
plant in the summer and remove the petals and stamens from its
flowers. The striking pistil in the middle of the flower is female,
the pollen surrounding it is male. You now need the pollen dust from a
parent variety. The pollen sack is carefully removed, dried and the
fine pollen is then applied to the pistil of the mother variety with a
brush.
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