We've had some particularly cold weather for this time of year here. All of my roses have new red growth on them, but because of the cold, they haven't really progressed beyond that. So I have a bunch of sticks with red tips. I admit, it does look kind of cool. Luckily, even with hard freezes every night this week, there is no damage. The roses are just in suspended state until it warms up.

Well, since this thread is back at the top again, I might as well give an update. We removed the pinkie (I think I said that above) but left all the other roses. They all seem fine - the canes on the meidiland greened up as they matured and the knockouts look fine as well. (I realized that I planted them WAY too close together though - in only a year they've at least doubled in size!) We bushhogged the fields and had them sprayed with 2-4-D last week. That should take care of the multiflora in our fields. We still have some on the bank out by the end of our driveway and at least one of them is definitely infected with RRD (it's the one I sent samples to the state ag lab from). I can't spray that one because it's surrounded by plants I want to keep, so I guess I'll have to dig it out. Gotta get to that one of these days. Maybe I'll get out there with some aquanet and wilt-pruf to try to contain the mites before the hot weather. I decided not to spray any pesticides. I did put the wiltpruf on my roses before bushhogging - I hope it worked because it royally screwed up my blooms - on every single rose the blooms are messy and look half dead before they even open (buds that formed since I sprayed the wilt-pruf look normal again so I know it was the wilt-pruf that did it). I also tried covering them with painter's dropcloths and sheets during the actual bushhogging process but the wind kept blowing them askew (uncovering half the bush) so that was probably pointless. At this point, I'm just keeping an eye on things as best I can. I got ambitious this year and put in a big veggie garden which took longer to prepare than I thought - we just got the plants in 2 weeks ago - and so I'm way behind on my weeding/mulching in my landscape beds. (BTW, does anyone know why the leaves of my peppper plants are curling and turning yellow?) Hopefully I'll get to pay more attention to the roses soon. I'll have to, because in another couple days, it should be time to start beetle-picking....

again, I urge you to try to get some more photos and seek expert advice - Henry is quite right, any herbicide, not just glyphosate but the older hormone based 2,4.D can and will cause exactly this sort of distorted coloration and will affect the rose for a couple of seasons as it acts systemically. We do not have RRD in the UK so it is not really fair for me to comment but I have seen lots of herbicide damage (mostly airborne from over-enthused sprayers)which looks identical to your rose. Is this all over the rose? It is my understanding that RRD has a partial effect, at least initially and by the time the damage is as extensive as to affect nearly every cane, the rose is practically in it's death throes. I think there are a number of oher indicators as well as distorted and discoloured foliage. I don't want to give out false hope but I also don't think you should act precipitously on the strength of one photograph and forum advice generated by that.

Just a tip for the future, if you have the sandy loam typical of the Central Valley, that is nearly ideal soil as it is, maybe needing just some sulfur for a pH adjustment, and a shovelful of manure. It would be better not to backfill with bagged mixes, although bagged mixes would not likely cause your problem. If you added cups of phosphate to the hole, I would go back to my original suspicion about zinc--that is, if you are seeing what I described (the tip stopped growing and stunted shoots came out around it). You may need to consult a soil/plant testing service. Since it happened after transplanting, it seems like soil chemistry may the the cause.