Is there seeds in Rose bushes?

Is there a seed I can take out of a rose flower for growing new plants or do I have to split the plant to get a new bush?

Is there seeds in Rose bushes?
If your rose bush is a hybrid then it is most likely a grafted rose. Grafted roses are on tough root stock of a rose that isn't necessarily a desirable one. But if it is an antique rose or an own root rose as they call it, then your best bet would be to do what is called layering. Layering is simply taking one of the lower branches and covering it with soil, then putting a rock or other heavy object on top of it to weight it down. Keeping it well watered, the stem or branch will form it's own roots and when it is established enough, simply cut it from the mother plant.

Cuttings will work too, but they are a bit tricky to do. You need to do them while it is in the blooming season for best results. The best stems for cuttings are the ones with the actual rose on them so you would need to sacrifice a bloom. It is suggested by the propagation experts to root the cutting in a 6 inch pot and to cover it. A liter bottle (i.e. soda bottle) with the bottom cut off makes a perfect top to be placed on top of the pot forming a mini-greenhouse. Water it well, then put it in a shady location to root. While it is rooting, do not tug on it to see if it is rooted as this will harm the newly forming roots.

Best of luck.
Reply:Roses do have seeds inside the rose hips that appear after the blooms die off. However, it would be much easier growing a new rose from a cutting of the older plant...
Reply:Yes, the seeds are contained in the "hips" that form after the flower matures and dies back.



If you allow the hips to reach maturity, they can be harvested and you will find seeds inside. The seeds are very unlikely to grow true to the mother bush, as they represent the result of cross fertilization with other flowers in the area.



This is how hybrid roses are created. Only generally, the parents are isolated from other roses to ensure that only the desired parents get crossed. The parents are often either hybrids themselves, with desirable characteristics or tehy represent classic stock roses with robust characteristics like bloom size, scent, hardiness, color, or some other desired trait.



I have planted seeds from rosehips and succeeded in growing plants, but my experience has been that the roots are generally fairly weak. You need to graft the new plants onto a hardy, disesase resistant rootstock if you want to grow a new bush.



The flowers that I obtained from the seed-grown plants were different than the ones on the parent. It took a few years for them to reach flowering maturity.
Reply:You're best off rooting cuttings.



But collect those rose hips in the fall, for a yummi tea or jelly!
Reply:yes there will be seeds in the rose hips if you allow them to mature, but you won't know if the seed was crosspollinated with a different rose til it matures and blooms, so the best chance of getting the exact same rose is to root a cutting as previously suggested.
Reply:Roses can set seed but being that most roses are hybrids, you most likely won't get a copy of the rose in question.



On top of that, rose seeds take a while to germinate and a while to put forth some sort of flower. It would be a while before you knew what the flower would look like.

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