Blue Picotee X Minibar Rose

X - Love the photo documentation! Interesting that only 1 has the variegated leaves. Must be a recessive gene!

I haven't posted for awhile because every thing is starting to look alike for a lot of plants. Here are some F2's from 3 different plants, solid AND variegated leaves!

Here are more F2's a bit different but flowers very similar to one another .. It's looking like as the plants mature they are "settling down" and variation is lessening. Though the single F2 that is planted alone is starting to consistently put out double split petals! All the doubles you see are from the same plant and I've back crossed a few with the MBR. All the doubles have pistils but no anthers. I'm also growing a Double Blue Picotee this year and will start back crossing with it as soon as it decides to flower and has pollen.

I am very partial to the Dbl Blue Picotee X, it's a beauty.

It certainly is .. the thing about the DBP line is that it doesn't consistently put out doubles - more often than not you'll get singles .. I'm hoping if I back cross it with the doubling F2, I might produce something that consistently doubles since the F2 doubled ones look like pure DBP.

I'm really wanting a Double Red Picotee .. that would be awesome to cross it with the doubling F2's.

hmm double red pictotee.. I thought I had some of those.. I will look for the seeds. I am sure someone sent me some.
I love the blues, tho, really partial to the blues.

I would love to see a Dbl Red Picotee. I don't think I've ever seen one.

No kidding! A double red picotee would be awesome! I hope you get a cross to produce them! :-)

the red picotee I have is a single, sorry, I was wrong.. too many seeds here..

Debra & Jackie - Maybe X can create a double red picotee through crossing! ;-)

I'd love to give it a try!

That would really be awesome.

right now, any picotee would look good to me ...*sigh* keep us posted on your efforts, X.

Here's the first F4 to bloom .. looks to be more Mini-Bar than Double Blue Picotee. Leaves are DBP though.

That is so neat X. Genes were locked in a battle for sure
Made for a very interesting bloom.

Yeah it kinda grows on you .. first glance was an ewwwwww.

I like the bloom and it does grow on you.
Eager to see if future blooms will vary.

This message was edited May 30, 2012 2:02 PM