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| I'm not sure if there's a name for a rose coming up where none was planted, amongst other roses. In oats, they're called - volunteer oats. Anyways, underneath Just Joey's branches, I found a little 2 cane baby - canes about 1/4 pencil width, but about 1' high covered at the top with rose leaves, and the ittiest bittiest thorns. What are my odds of what this is? From roots of rootstock? Couldn't be a seedling could it? It's sitting in it's own pot now. Can't wait to see what it is! |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Wed, Dec 26, 12 at 18:44
| It could be a seedling. I have dozens coming up in my garden each year. You'll just have to see what happens. A couple of times what I thought were seedlings were actually little bits of prunings that sprouted. Let's hope this is something new. It's such fun and you can call it whatever you wish. |
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| It's possible it could be a seedling if you've left hips ripen on your roses and they've dropped. More likely it's root stock of some kind coming up. It doesn't matter that it's not in the exact spot a rose was planted before. If there were roses anywhere around the area that were grafted the root stock can send up shoots from any part of the root system left in the ground. |
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| If your 'Just Joey' is a budded plant, I'd be more inclined to think that you have a sucker from the (probably Dr. Huey) rootstock. We never had many suckers from Dr. Huey here -- but we got them constantly on an Arena-grown 'Tradescant,' and we had a few on 'Fourth Of July.' If you go to the 'Dr. Huey' entry at HelpMeFind, go to the photos tab, and page back through OLDER entries there, you'll find a whole series of detail images I put up there a few years back, to help with this very identification question. Jeri |
Here is a link that might be useful: 'Dr. Huey' at HelpMeFind
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