Rose hips

[tashak]

I like rose hip tea in the cold and stormy months, and wonder if any of you could advise me on the following two questions:

Has anyone ever grown roses from commercial rose hips? Planting and cultivation suggestions for windy arid zone? Haven't really seen any roses growing wild or cultivated in my area, and no abandoned homesteads to collect them from near here.

Are there any particular types of roses (multiflora or heirloom) that I could grow for this purpose? Specific suggestions? Even relevant websites you can recommend?

Even the supermarkets within a 30 mile radius don't seem to carry bulk rose hips, just the awful hibiscus-flavored prepackaged teas. Really not a lot of health food stores or coops in that 30 mile radius, so I may have to seek rose hips online or in nursery catalog. (The two local nurseries are not very knowledgeable. General attitude is if-they-don't-have-it, it's not available and you don't need it. And the one helpful one was underfunded and went out of business in less than a year some time ago.)

[dirtundernails]

www.jungseed.com has two fruiting roses: Jubilee, and Frau Dagmar Hartopp. Sure look good to me. These are rugosa roses. $13 apiece (!)
I had no luck with germination of some large hipped roses that tasted really good. Didn't try very hard, though.
Can't help ya with windy and arid except to comment on Wyoming, Colorado and S. Dakota where they grow wild just fine.


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[nikki]

Not really sure on the arid conditions but they seem to do ok in wind- I purchased the exact combo from Jung last year they are planted to the front of my house facing north -I live on a hill- no wind break that direction so they get a lot of NW wind. My plants are still young so I may know more about how they do next year. So far they apear to be surviving! I beleive they (Jung) sell other varieties that would hip as well but are not sup to get as large- but not sure on this. Good luck!

[TennOC]

Yes, use the Rugosa roses for hips. They are as large or larger than some crabapples. Less picking. Technically, any roses would do, but hey, you got other stuff to do than pick multiflora hips, I'm sure, lol.

[DanaDW]

Ditto on the rugosas and yes they can take quite a beating here too. Also great in Nevada: rosa foetida, rosa woodsii, rosa hugonis. All tough as nails here and set nice hips.

[Helen Wong-Joe]

I, too have a questions about rose hips.I don't know if this is true or not, I was told that rose hips are from the dead roses. After the flowers are gone, there are these round looking things all over the rose bush. Are these rose hips and after they are dried can they be use in teas???

[Gary]

Growing and Harvesting Rose Hips
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Harvesting and Preparing Rose Hips
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Rose Hip Tea --- Storing and Using Rose Hipes
http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/rosehips.html

Rose hips
Rose hips, vitamin C, how? When ripe they have a lot of dried fluff and 4 seeds in them. How does one use them to get the vitamin C?

Most folks use rose hips as tea to access the vitamin C. To do this, harvest the hips when they are full, red or orange, and shiny. With scissors, snip off the stem and blossom end. Small hips you can simply dry whole, but larger ones dry better if you snip them in half. Dry them that way, never minding about the seeds. When you want to make tea out of them, simmer a heaping tablespoonful of dried hips in a cup of water. The longer you let the hips steep in the water, the stronger the tea. Rose hips really lack flavor, so you’ll probably want to add perhaps lemon and honey, cinnamon, or herbs of your choice. When the tea is done to your taste, strain it, and it’s ready to drink.
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Poached Pinapple in Red Honey Syrup, Rose Hips Sorbet
Serves 4 Fat-free

Rose hips are the seed pods of the rose bush, once used primarily for making jelly. They impart a beautiful crimson to this honeyed poaching liquid, and contain an impressive amount of vitamin C. The dessert itself is both gastronomically and visually electrifying.

1 medium-large ripe pineapple
1/3 cup plus 2 teaspoons aromatic honey
4 rose hips tea bags (see Note) or
3 tablespoons dried rose hips

Using a very sharp knife, cut off the pineapple's crown along with the top inch of pineapple flesh. Then cut off the bottom 1/2 inch. Stand the pineapple upright and carefully cut down the sides, following the contour of the pineapple, until all the peel is removed. Be sure you cut deep enough so that all the "eyes" and rough skin are removed. Save the green leaves from the crown for garnishing. Lay peeled pineapple on its side and cut it crosswise into 4 thick slices.

Place pineapple in a nonreactive skillet large enough to hold the slices in a single layer. Add 5 cups water and 1/3 cup honey. Bring to a boil. Add rose hips and lower heat so that poaching liquid simmers gently. Cover skillet and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, then turn pineapple over. Cook, covered, for 15 minutes longer, or until tender. Remove pineapple with a slotted spoon and place in a shallow casserole. Discard tea bags. (If using loose rose hips, strain liquid through a sieve.)

Over high heat, cook the remaining liquid until reduced to 3 cups. Pour 1 cup over pineapple slices. Let cool, then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Chill remaining 2 cups liquid in small bowl until very cold. Process in ice-cream machine according to manufacturer's directions until a smooth sorbet results.

With an apple corer or small knife, remove center woody core from each pineapple slice. Place pineapple slice and some poaching liquid in 4 large shallow soup bowls. Top with a scoop of sorbet. Drizzle each serving with 1/2 teaspoon honey. Garnish with a pineapple leaf sticking out of sorbet. Serve immediately.

Note:
You can substitute Red Zinger tea bags for a similar flavor.

[werecat]

I like rose hip tea in the cold and stormy months, and wonder if any of you could advise me on the following two questions:

Has anyone ever grown roses from commercial rose hips? Planting and cultivation suggestions for windy arid zone? Haven't really seen any roses growing wild or cultivated in my area, and no abandoned homesteads to collect them from near here.

Are there any particular types of roses (multiflora or heirloom) that I could grow for this purpose? Specific suggestions? Even relevant websites you can recommend?

Even the supermarkets within a 30 mile radius don't seem to carry bulk rose hips, just the awful hibiscus-flavored prepackaged teas. Really not a lot of health food stores or coops in that 30 mile radius, so I may have to seek rose hips online or in nursery catalog. (The two local nurseries are not very knowledgeable. General attitude is if-they-don't-have-it, it's not available and you don't need it. And the one helpful one was underfunded and went out of business in less than a year some time ago.)
In my family we harvest the hips from the wild bramble and dogwood roses. If you would like, this fall when we harvest, I will save you some of the seeds from the bigest and plumpest of the hips and send those out to you. Here it is generally considered a weed, but its pretty and we get free hips out of it. Considering how hard local farmers fight to kill them they should do well just about anywhere, Let me know. :)

[stonysoil]

i ordered 2 rugosas from jung about 5 yrs ago and they are thriving i .. i wish i planted them further away form my house.. this yr i have bad problem with japanes beetles.. they love the flowers.. anyone have a good organic control of the hungry beetles

[johno]

I, too have a questions about rose hips.I don't know if this is true or not, I was told that rose hips are from the dead roses. After the flowers are gone, there are these round looking things all over the rose bush. Are these rose hips and after they are dried can they be use in teas???


The round looking things are rose hips...

[Helen Wong-Joe]

thanks johno for clarifying. I should pluck them and sun dried them???