Propagation: Propagating/Grafting Roses, 0 by Stake

Stake wrote:
G'Day All
Flower Fantasy you are a little of line with the Apricot/Plum = Pluot this has nothing to do with grafting but as you suggested the use of pollen to fertilize a plant from a different genus and produce a hybrid, that's what the Pluot is. As explained in the earlier message if you graft an Apricot onto a Plum that Apricot will be exactly like the mother plant that you took the scion from. Having said that very rarely (perhaps one in a million) a bud mutation may occur then you will have a new variety but you can't cause this deliberately, certainly not in a home garden perhaps in a radiation lab. and the results would still be unpredictable.
If you want to create a new plant then sow some seeds each seedling is unique genetically even though in some cases they may look the same as the parent i.e. tomatoes or petunias etc. If you want a new rose then collect the seeds from the rose hips extract the seed, after cleaning place the seed in your refrigerator or leave out buried in the snow (I think you have plenty) until next spring then plant the seed in ordinary potting mix and wait for the results. You will have to wait some years for the flowers and most will be inferior to the parent some might be as good as the parent and every now and then you will get something better but as stated up the page a bit each one of those plants is a new variety. If you want to increase the odds on getting a better plant then choose as parents roses that have characteristics that you would like to combine into one plant, you will need to emasculate the plant that is going to produce the seed then take the pollen from your male parent an place it on the stigma of the female flower. You will have to read up on all the things you need to do in breeding roses because to produce better plants is not a simple thing, to produce a different one is reasonably simple.
Don't let my diatribe stop you from trying get in and give it a go because it is fun just trying and the photo shows you can be lucky, the double deep pink flower is a seedling that came up under the parent a fairly old variety of double pale pink dwarf peach. The new one is also dwarf but I think it is quite a nice plant although no nursery was interested propagating it for sale still it's mine and I like it. I did post this some where else on DG so you may have seen it before.
Regards