Rainbow Roses- Seeds for Sale?

[mzwahash]

Has anyone had success with growing rainbow roses from seeds you purchased from eBay Sellers?

[devino14]

Rainbow roses are fraud u need a certain machine to do it there just white roses u are wasting money

[aramintaca]

Now I see "American" sellers of the new True Blood Black Rose seeds. How strange that nowhere can you buy a bush of this variety  And they are only sold on eBay....

[islandhobbler]

What you do is nick the shell. Lay the seeds out on a wet towel or paper towel with . 2nd one place on top place in a large zip lock bag. Lay flat in the refrigerator do not let them freeze...after 7 days start checking on them. Keep moist. When there is a good sprout on them put in a starting pod with a cover after 2nd leaf is on un cover and repot in a 2inc pot. I have started many from seed over years this way

[islandhobbler]

Some will be faster then others you will have stages of roses depending on how many seeds you start with. Not all will grow

[basslinebargains]

And me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kavanaghkings_1]

It should be made illegal to sell such seeds, you can not grow a rainbow coloured Rose, I am a florist and landscape gardener, these roses are coloured using food colour they are cream or white roses to begin with, they are let grow and open to a certain point, then they are cut with long stems, the leaves are removed and the stem is split into at least four at the base, then each part of the stem is injected with the colour of your choice, the vain of that part of the plant then takes the colour up to the top and colours the petals of the rose.

I must addmit they do look very beautiful flowers when done correctly, however it also decreases the length of the life of the flower.

The same applies to the black rose which can not be grown, and any other coloured rose which is not a natural ocurance such as a green rose.

I have to addmit this also, that even had me thinking that they might have bred such a rose, mainly because they are very clever at creating things, that really don't exist in nature, such as a pear tree which is also an aple tree, now this has been done and can be done, this by taking a cutting from an aple tree leaving some of the previous years bark on the cutting that has been taken, then by making a T cut into the bark of a young pear tree, you then insert the cutting taken from the aple tree into the T cut on the pear tree, this is called air lairing, you then rap this with rafia or some othere string and tye this off so as to make a good strong connection to the pear tree, and also to seal the cut that has been made in the pear tree, this should in time seal it's self around the cutting taken from the aple tree, until the pear tree forms a bond with the aple tree cutting and it's self.

Do not remove the rafia or string for upto three years at which time the two tree's will have become one, hence you will then have a pear tree that grows aples and an aple tree that grows pears on the same tree, now this really can be done.

However doing this is not as easy as I have made it sound, it is for such as I, but then I know how to do it, the cutting taken from the aple tree is not a very small one, it's quite a large cutting that has to be taken, so as to blend in with the pear tree.

each tree should be of around the same age also.

There you are in a nutshell your answer.

[justamomentofyourtime]

Agreed. I am a former florist. I purchased lots of rainbow roses, they all came from Ecuador. Columbia does the process too but I found that Ecuador roses are the best. White roses are used with very long stems that are cut in 4 and each part of the stem placed in dye. Often the roses we got in would have parts of the stems still split into 4 if they forgot to cut that part off on some of them. They were quite beautiful and good sellers. They even turn the water in the vase a pretty color from the dye. I am sad to see all these people being scammed to buy these seeds on ebay and other sites. You should have seen what they are getting for them on TH. 

[socaharbor]

http://www.rainbowrosecompany.com/about-rainbow-roses/

[silver-lord]

It is not possible to grow multi coloured roses from seed. Multicoloured roses are spray painted. WHY can't Ebay remove these sellers ? Or at least get the sellers to remove these bogus listings. By the time you have grown the seeds and found they do not produce multicoloured roses it is too late to do anything about it.

[azuriteshop]

Jesus people you are all **bleep**ing nuts, all these pictures are not even real, this a 100% PhotoShop based scamming. As if a scammer would waste his time and money dyeing all of those **bleep** roses to freaking rainbows and unicorn land colors...

Seriously, you guys need more education on the biology of reality. Anyone who EVER worked with photoshop would immediately recognize fraudulent and fake colors on a natural picture.

[czervakis]

The whole responsibility belongs to Ebay , they know who is thief but they arent doing anything to stop them!
of course there r no such things like multicolour roses
and those seed sellers most of the cases sell gmo seeds terminated seeds , it's simple DONT BUY seeds from ebay sellers.

[serson2009]

Yes this is true!

There is no such as a seed or a cutting from a Rainbow Rose!

But the dyes are injected into the rose, at certain spots, to create the colorization you see.

It is done in the last 24 hours of growing!

If you attempt to do this after the rose has been cut the stem will absorb the colors and not be pedal specific!

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@zigmur wrote:

If you are expecting to the roses to grow and bloom with multicolored petals, they won't.  Its an artificial process used on cut flowers. 

Here is one video on how to do it,

http://www.designboom.com/art/rainbow-roses/

This can also be done on several other plants as well that have the same stem system as the rose.

I have bought several seeds, plants ect... off ebay with great results.   Rose cuttings are easier to start with than seeds, IMO.

"Dave's Garden, Plantfiles" is an excellent resource.

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[oliverbrittany]

I brought rain now rose seeds 2 separate batches and not one grew

[etrnty]

No luck at all, I did follow every step but no luck.

[mycreativebox-com]

Hello, I just bought rainbow roses seeds; idk yet, just leaving a reply to have a bookmark so as I can post feedback to these type of product;

Also ebay need to try fix a policy for such things that take over 60days to grow / confirm the authenticity of the product.

Kind regards;

Mr M.