When Should You Plant Seeds for the Dorothy Rose?
Dorothy is a lovely, apricot-colored floribunda rose, introduced into the U.S. in 2004. When pollinated, Dorothy will produce a seed pod, known as a "hip" from which you can harvest the seeds and plant them. Because Dorothy is a hybrid rose, the resulting plant will not be a Dorothy and may look completely different. Does this Spark an idea?
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Harvest The Seeds
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Allow the rosehips to remain on the bush for four months. Collect the rose hip from the plant four months after it has formed. They are easy to cut into with a small, sharp knife. The seeds need to be cleaned of any pulp from the rose hip and then soaked for 24 hours in hydrogen peroxide.
Preparing The Seeds
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Dorothy rose seeds require a four month period of cold to break dormancy. This is known as stratification and it is easy to reproduce by placing the seeds in moist peat moss and a plastic bag and allowing them to sit in the refrigerator.
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Plant The Seeds
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Plant the Dorothy seeds in nursery flats or pots of seed starting soil in the spring, after the danger of frost has passed. Don't wait too long, though, because the seeds won't germinate if the weather gets too warm. Place the pots or flats outdoors in the sunshine and the Dorothy seeds should germinate within six weeks.
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