Re: Re: Clones

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** Reply to note from "rosenlund" <rosenlund@transport.com> Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:28:13 -0800
>   
> Most interesting stuff here, Mel and Don.  Most of it over my head, but I
> love hearing about it.  Keep it coming!  I'll learn something.
>   
> Mel wrote:
> >A special case of a sport is a "reversion".  This occurs when a part of a
> sport
> >shows the characteristics of the variety it sported from.  This has allowed
> >rescue of otherwise extinct varieties!
>   
> Am I following you right, here?  Are you saying that a sport may "revert
> back" or sport back to the orginial variety?

Yep.  The whole plant doesn't but a cane or part of a cane might.  If budwood
is taken from that area, you'll get the sports parent back!  It has happened to
me.

> Mel wrote:
> >There are differences of opinion among experts as to whether "genetic
> drift"
> >occurs in roses.  Dr. Malcolm Manners believes that "varietal deteriation"
> >results from virus and that once "indexed" the original characteristics
> will
> >return.  I toss coins on this subject while awaiting the results of genetic
> >research which, for roses, is in the embrionic state.

> Could this work say by... digging up and replanting a rose?  My
> grandmother's rose ('Apothecary Rose') she was told that if it didn't
> produce "calio" as she called it, that she and her father would dig up the
> rose and simply replant it in it's same spot.  Most of the time this was in
> Central Oregon.  She swears that's how it would "calio" which I'm thinking
> is then 'Rosa Mundi"... Could this be so?

Replanting in the same location without changing something should make no
difference.  Perhaps, in the process, your grandmother amended the soil and
cared for the rose a little better after replanting.  Sometimes moving a plant
to a different location may help.  In general, replanting/moving roses is not
desirable unless there is a good reason for it and then, try to get it as
dormant as possible.

Regards,

    Mel

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