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- From: "Wyatt Jones" <wyatt_jones AT netzero.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Rugosa Roses/rose oil
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 06:16:37 -0400
I've been growing Rugosa roses, Mainly Rugosa Alba, for rose hips and was
wondering if anybody else has been growing other varieties what the growth
characteristics were and the size and quality, flavor etc of them. I'm
also interested in the fragrance as I'm looking into distilling Rose oil, which
goes for about $100 an ounce these days. I'm also looking sauces of these
varieties. The alba is interesting because it produces large fruit, grows
to about 6 ft tall, has excellent fragrance, suckers and grows into a thicket
after a while but the flowers are simple five petal types which makes it hard to
collect for distillation. It supposedly is a constant bloomer but I
haven't seen that though it does have a few after the initial
bloom. I've heard that the Roseraie De L'Hay grows to about 12 feet and
has nice double blooms and great fragrance but haven't heard much about the
hips. The blanc Double de Coubert has nice double blooms with intense
fragrance and good hips ( I've heard its a sport of the alba actually though I
haven't heard anything about a suckering tendency) tall but I've heard the
blooms get ruined when it rains. The Frau Dagmar is interesting but its
pretty short from what I've heard and has a tendency to require trellising, not
sure about how intense the fragrance is either, The Michel Truedeau does sound
interesting but its also short and I couldn't find anything to indicate how
good the hips were, its supposed to be pretty fragrant but how intense that
fragrance is isn't clear.
The good thing about the alba is that I can get them for about $4 apiece,
they spread are very hardy (a wild variety) and are propagated
easily. I can use them for goat forage as well since they are pretty
prolific once they get going. Has anybody distilled essential oils out there? What kind of
still have you used and what process? How was the quality? I'm
mostly thinking about distilling the rose oil but I'd do other oils once I had
the setup to do them, its just that the rose is pretty lucrative. I know
steam distillation is legal but I'm not sure if a fuel alcohol permit would
suffice for alcohol distillation, though it seems like it would.
So another off the wall outside of the box topic from me LOL.
Wyatt
Jamestown Ohio
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[Market-farming] Rugosa Roses/rose oil,
Wyatt Jones, 11/02/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Rugosa Roses/rose oil, GarlicGrower, 11/02/2016
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