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Comments (8)Rose fragrances can be very tricky things. I think it's clear that the human sense of smell varies far more from person to person than does the sense of sight. I know I've read accounts of Peace that state it's fragrant (& I've read discussion threads here about that, too), but to my nose it has no scent at all. And yes, even back in the 1970's when J&P was still a pretty good to excellent rose supplier their promotional material was filled with comments like what you just got, and the roses they sold were just as variably fragrant then as they are now....See MoreRecieved Jackson & Perkins Rose
Comments (6)I was so taken back by the meager quality of the rose; I didn't notice if it was own root or not. It was potted and had a very weak root system. I have some doubts about it making through the winter. I am 59 years old and my mother bought plants from Park Seed Co. for years. I have used them for years also. Now all they are concerned about is making the buck and to heck with quality or customer satisfaction. But, the few dollars they make off of the sale of a poor quality plant also gets them a thousand dollars worth of publicity....See MoreJackson & Perkins is horrible, horrible, stay away!
Comments (25)Very sorry this happened to you , braverichard. I read over J&P warranty, I did not see anything being required to buy in within their stated hardiness zone for the guarantee to remain in tact. If that's their policy, they should state it, and be prepared lose most of their tree rose sales to those not in zone 7-10. I also notice that good customer service companies have some form of escalation for valid reasons that fall outside of their warranty...I recently received refunds from both Amazon and Uber for situations that fell outside their warranty, because they made sense. Wayside, J&P and esp Park seed brought me much happiness when I was a kid. It's sad to see them in decline, their offerings are not that competitive in today's world, their reviews are bad, I would guess they're not exactly profitable, either....See MoreNot good news, at all...
Comments (87)Wonderful to hear about the Texas research extension’s progress. I just looked them up and found this article from a couple years ago that shows they were working on the RRD problem in 2015 and anticipated then that it would be 5-10 years before new RRD resistant rose varieties would be on the market. https://today.agrilife.org/2015/09/03/nations-researchers-team-up-to-improve-protect-roses/ Also this exciting excerpt from this article: (“With this technology, maybe we could essentially transform all the rose varieties to those that are resistant to disease — and not just well known diseases such as black spot but also to upcoming diseases such as rose rosette.” The emerging malady, rose rosette, has become such a devastating disease in many states that a second, five-year national research effort by some 20 scientists is targeting that disease specifically, said Byrne, who is leading the breeding component of that project. “In this second project, we are also developing markers in trying to understand the rose rosette resistance, which we don’t know much about at the moment,” he said. “The first step is doing a lot of screening for rose rosette resistance.” ). But they seem to be talking mainly about breeding new rose varieties that are resistant to the RRD virus. If you want to insert the RRD resistant gene(s) into an old established rose variety then a technology like CRISPER will be needed. Also that old rose may need to be amenable to growing as a cell culture in a Petri dish, at least for the gene insertion event. I am guessing that since the Rosa genus is very genetically diverse, some roses will be much more amenable than others to Petri dish growth. I remember reading years ago, when I was a grad student, how they removed rose mosaic virus from established old rose varieties when no disease free strains could be found. They grew the plant under high heat stress to reduce the viruses vigor. Then they took plant tissue from the faster growing tips of the rose that the virus hadn’t reached yet and put these cells into a petri dish with a sterile medium, nutrients and growth hormones. From these few cells they regrew a mature plant without the viral infection. If only it were this easy for RRD....See More- 10 years agolast modified: 9 years ago
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