Hey, good afternoon, it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose farm. Well, I thought it was high time I made another video on
Sowing seeds for roses. The last video I made really discussed more the issue of
What you can expect when you plant roses from a seed this one here
I want to do something a little different want to take you through the whole process
so the question is how do you get from a packet of seeds that you purchase like this or
drive hips that you have like these or even collecting fresh rose hips from your garden and
how do you get from there to the point where you have a plant like this?
Just as background from that video that I previously made and what to expect when you grow roses from seeds
This is one of those seedlings. This was done last year started stratifying last year in November. I
planted the seedling in
February and it has gone through two sets of blooms
I'll post a picture of that in this video and now it's at this stage here ready to be potted up into the next size
probably in next spring so
Before I get going on what the steps are to get from here to there
Let me just take you outside for a quick second and we'll collect some fresh seeds
Out of the rose field here. I wanted to show you me collecting some seeds from roses. It's November now
So the rose hips should be nice and ripe and the seeds inside of them ready for
stratification
Here, this Rose is called Altissimo. It's a climber. So it's got nice tall branches there
and so I've actually pulled off some rose hips here and see they're bright orange and
Ready for harvest now while I'm out here and before I forget to do so I'll go ahead and put that into an envelope
and
My wife just picked these up at a at a thrift store. So
We got them for cheap and they're nice and handy for this kind of work because they fit into my pocket and
I can write on them. So in this case because it came from the Rose altissimo
I'll write Ex. Altissimo
On
The envelope and then move on to my next variety
All right back inside now with the hips that we collected from outside
but also drive hips that have got soaked in here from previous years of collection and
Seeds clean from a seed package that also are soaking
So what I aim to do here is I need to replicate what happens to the seeds in nature to get them to germinate
Out in nature they be on that
rosebush still
In hips and they might be held there up in the bush for another year before they drop to the ground and start breaking down
Then those seed pods would have to break down and a finally the seeds would have to be
have a period of
cold and moist weather of winter so that they know that it's time to germinate and they would preferably
Germinate in spring, so they have a whole season to establish before they have to face winter again
So for all of that how to happen in nature, it might take two to three years or more here
we want to shortcut that and have that all happen over the course of three months and
in your fridge so a lot more controlled and
on your schedule, so
What I want to show you is the media that I'm using for this this is vermiculite
From this package here
You definitely could use perlite. I
Those are the two that I would recommend some people use sand
I find that that holds too much moisture and things are too susceptible to rot in the sand
So I would say perlite or vermiculite find the fine vermiculite is fine like this
But it needs to be moist you can see this right now is quite dry
but here's the spot where some people get messed up is
This can not be dry like this, but it definitely cannot be soaking wet
so what I suggest you do is you start with just a small amount of water and
I've only poured it in maybe a
couple of tablespoons there, and then I just want to stir it around and
Share that moisture amongst all of the vermiculite
you know, this is gonna look like a cooking show, but
You don't really want to rush this stage here
And you can just leave it to sit for a little while to share around that moisture but it's not quite wet enough yet
So I'm gonna give it a little more
Just pour it all
the way around here
Well, that's start to look a little bit more like it
There's still some dry patches in there, but don't worry about that. You're trying to get it to be evenly moist
It will do that all on its own
Just by sharing the water amongst the whole media there
So this is starting to look more like what it should be like
so I'm just gonna give us a push down here and lift it and
It should hold in a form like that
fairly easily but also break apart fairly easily and
To your hand to your feel it should feel moist, but you should not be able to squeeze any water out of it
So this is just about perfect
Next thing I'm going to do here is this is just a real basic
Almost like a Tupperware container
Your people use for like condiments or something small
I'm going to just throw a little layer of
Vermiculite across the bottom here and I've already prepared some seeds here
These ones here been soaking overnight
The variety if you're if you're interested is real as a rubrifolia. I'm just going to take those and
Put them on the top here and then i'm going to spread them out in a little layer
And
really your only goal there is not to have them all stacked on top of each other or
Serve in a pile and then I'll take a little bit more vermiculite just to cover everything over smooth that out
and
That's it. Now as a final step here. I need to
Label that and then put it in the fridge and I put it in the fridge for about three months. So
two and a half months
You should start checking to see if there's any germination happening in it because that's what roses will do is once they've received that
Fertilization period of that stratification period they will start germinating right in the fridge. So
Go and check that at about two and a half months and keep on checking until you see some
Germination then you can pull them all out and start transplanting them. So I'll show you that step next so twelve weeks later now
I'm another three months older and in my greenhouse here it's turned from winter to spring so you may even see some fresh potting on
The benches behind me
The reason I'm finishing up the seeding video now is because inside of these Tupperware containers I put into the fridge
In November and December I have some germination and I'll put up some close-up videos or pictures of this
But you can see that the first thing that emerges is that first
Seed root or radical they call it which is long and white and has some fuzzy
little root hairs on it
The next thing that will happen is the first seed leaves will come out that don't look a lot like rose leaves
They're kind of roundish, but everything in here now has satisfied its stratification requirement has had enough cold and they're ready to start
germinating so I've got a
Pronto get some of these ones that have already germinated and also all the other seeds in here that have not germinated into pots
so that I can let them germinate let them start forming true leaves and end up looking like
This guy here, which I showed you in the in a previous scene is one that I did exactly one year previously
So now this one is ready for transplanting
I'm gonna give you some close-up views here of the germinated seedlings and how I transplant those into pots. So hang tight
All right, I'm just gonna transfer here from this Tupperware container the one that I see that it's germinated and
You find it useful to use the back end of a spoon or a small tool like that
and you can probably see there's a good seed root on that and then just Dibble with my finger and
Oops, I want to go too deep
gently
tease it in and
Firm it up. And when that first cotyledon, you know those first leaves emerge then this should be good to go and
Also for the other one
Same process and again, you can probably see a good root on that. So just
Gently tease it into position and
That's it. You could also put them into seedling trays and that would be fine for
this larger one here from the previous year and
Just to give you some context this one was
stratified in the fall of 2017
germinated in the spring of 2018 and now is
Going into a one gallon pot in the spring of 2019. I've got it labeled as that
it was a seedling of wild blue yonder so looking forward to seeing how that one does this year and
So these ones here are one year younger
Hopefully by next year, they'll be at this stage and that takes you all the way through that takes you from
collection of seeds
cleaning of the seeds
stratification germination and
transplanted potting and if you do have any other questions about growing roses from seed
Please don't hesitate to drop a question below the video. Thank you very much