This is my post for #freewriters 2643 prompt conceive hosted by @mariannewest.
All of my desert rose plants are of the single flower variety. I have seen videos of double flowered desert roses and wondered if I could make one have double flowers. Nope, the only way to do it is to graft a double flowered one to a single flowered plant, you can not cross pollinate them,
You know how you feel when you conceive an idea, or two and they both are failures, that is how I now feel. This is what happened.
I watched a video of someone slicing a desert rose flower, taking pollen from it, and putting it into another rose flower. This had me thinking, could I do it with a rose from Mom's rosebush and a desert rose flower?
I thought it would be prettiest on the white desert rose. So a few months ago I tried it without researching if it would work. This morning I Googled it and Google says they will not cross pollinate. I guess I can stop waiting to see if it worked.
photos are mine