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.
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
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.
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."
