In our last post, we discussed how we had finalized the collection of our seeds from our various rose plants. We had sought to collect more than one-thousand seeds to increase our odd of success in the creation of new plants. We are happy to say that, as of this post, we have planted one thousand, twenty-four seeds and we still have more to plant. Unfortunately, at this moment, we are unable to plant anymore seeds because we ran out of seed starter trays. We are awaiting our order of new trays to come in so that we can continue the planting process. At this point, I am hoping we are able to sow one thousand, three hundred seeds this year. That would allow us to gather one hundred four successful plants at a success rate of 8%. That is the best case scenario.
Growing roses from seed, in my experience, is difficult. Thus, we are anticipating a middle ground of the best and worst case scenarios and project that we will have fifty-two plants that will carry on past the seed tray process; of those we expect half to survive the year leaving us with 26 plants that will allow us to make a second generation of plants. We will keep you posted as our seed trays begin to produce.
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