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'Mrs. Harold Brocklebank' rose Reviews & Comments
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I've had a very odd thing happen with a cutting of this rose. It went in 15 days ago, and is starting to callus. What's odd about that? Well, it is callusing on the top end. No, I did not plant it upside down.
This is the only cutting (out of about 120 surviving ones of various cultivars) that has shown any sign of callusing on top*. Has anyone ever seen this sort of thing happen before, when striking cuttings with the resealable bag method?
*Hopefully this means it will also be callusing at the business end.
Edit: Turns out it wasn't callusing at the business end. Only did it on the exposed top end. The bottom end was doing nothing at all.
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I've seen ramblers send out roots at nodes above the potting mix, but I haven't seen Mrs Harold do that.
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The nodes seem to be behaving normally, but the cut top end is callusing. It's frankly a tad irritating given the reluctance of some cuttings to callus at all. Mrs. H B seems to be showing off. :P
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By the way: cuttings of this rose seem to be very slow to strike. I think it will eventually get there, but it's hard to tell at the moment.
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I am sure it will get there. I have had a good strike rate with about four different clones in my acid soul. (Oops, soil! !)
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Still a hippy at heart, eh? ;)
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Yes, definitely. Thanks for the morning laugh Give me caffeine.
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This is where it's at after 6 weeks. One is pretending to be dead. The second is pretending to be robust and hopeful. The third is making new green buds at nodes, and pretending it wants to be a rose bush when it grows up. I'll believe it when I see it.
Update: March 27 - The one at the left has now given up. Frankly I don't really expect the other two to amount to much, but they can stay until they're definitely stuffed.
March 30: They're definitely stuffed now.
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From the 1913 "Dingee Guide to Rose Culture.", page 22, with an accompanying photograph of the rose:
"Mrs. H. Brocklebank.
A magnificent Hybrid Tea Rose of a creamy white, with buff center, outer petals being a delightful shade of salmon-rose passing to a salmon pink. The flowers are extremely large, full and perfect in form. The bush is a particularly strong grower, very hardy and always in bloom. Altogether this is one of the Roses you cannot well do without."
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Thank you HubertG. Reference added.
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Ogden Nash:
Cats have kittens
Dogs have puppies
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But guppies just have
Little guppies.
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Hadn't heard that one before. I always did like his one about billboards and trees.
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