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I think I did a B-A-A-A-D thing ...
I looked at the sites that offer roses on fortuniana and didn't find any
rugoses. I think I may email Ken Muncy and ask if he can/will graft one for me. Interesting to hear your experience with some of them. I'd like to try a couple but to be fair I'm not sure Wayside is the best place to get them for a test run. Not really knocking them, but they aren't know for the quality of their plants. If I'm testing I'd like to start with a rose from a good vender, so I'd know if it was the variety or the source. I had considered ownroot, heavy mulch and shaded feet, but again not sure that's a fair test of Dr. Manners statement. If I can't find one on fortuniana, maybe I'll try it that way. Several sources claim Dr. Huey isn't a bad rootstock for us, in fact most say it is second best. But when the first choice lasts 20 years and number two is only good for about 5 there's a big difference. Some of the own roots are reported to never take off at all. Nematodes don't seem to be that big of a problem in my area or at least my soil. But then I don't have the typical sand of most of Florida. Several own roots are at the four year mark and still going strong. A couple on multiflora are three and show no signs of declining. Of course none of them are modern roses and none of them have hit the five year mark yet either. I bought some hybrid rugosas last year on closeout from Wayside Gardens. They are grafted, presumably onto Dr. Huey. The rootstock on the Blanc Double de Coubert (bush still in a pot until a few days ago) sent up a big sucker when the warm weather hit and the rugosa leaves started to show: impatient, I guess. My experience from a couple hybrid rugosas on Dr. Huey is that they do okay except in the worst heat here, and I'm in north Florida in zone 8b. They sulked a bit in the hottest and wettest parts of the summer here, and had some black spot problems (presumably a purebred rugosa would not have those, or would it?). I wonder how an own-root rugosa would do here with a nice heavy mulch, if Dr. Manners is right. I looked at a book on the rack at Lowe's -- might have been put out by J&P, or maybe by the Southern Living people, about roses in the South, and it claimed that Dr. Huey is not a bad rootstock for nematode-infested soils. Huh? (Of course, J&P would probably write that sort of thing to defend their use of Dr. Huey.) |
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