I agree that the rose industry might get wiped out by this disease because for as long as it has been known, I just feel, again my feeling, that more progress should have been made by the researchers on how to control or cure the stupid virus. Or maybe we need to wipe out the mite populations. I don't know! But yeah, every so often I feel like I am making stupid investments in roses which can be killed so easily.

Regan is closing?!? Darn... too bad. They were such a good source of roses for me.

Ukiah??? we have not seen rose rosette in northern CA or north - if true this is terrible news. It is not easy to positively identify RR and many roses put dark red spring growth out and there are those thinking that this is RR when it is not. You should send these roses to your CA Ag inspector for testing and certainly inform them of this development. Will you post some images of these roses?

As far as we know no commercial roses are immune to RR. The idea that own root have an immunity is not even worth commenting on - they don't. You are right that spraying will not give 100% guarantee they will be immune, but it will help a lot. Destroying infected roses is also really important to limit the spread of the virus. I also think that cutting down and destroying multiflora in hedgerows in areas will improve the chances of having roses.

A lot of money is being spent on finding a way to combat RR. If you think that a virus is an easy thing to cure think about the common cold or flu virus because surely if it was easy to eradicate viruses they would have had a cure long ago.

There is a lot of uninformed information above and I don't have time at the moment to comment in depth. Except to say that it is extremely unlikely that Regan Nursery is at fault. Please post photos of your problem roses before tarnishing an excellent nursery. It is far more likely that your roses have another problem. Please show a photo!

It is really easy to misidentify RRD--someone brought some red foliage to our club meeting thinking it was RRD--fortunately we had an expert who has personal experience with RRD to say they made a mistake. Personally, I'm not worried. After seeing Ann Peck's talk at a Yankee District conference, I concluded that the RRD risk to my garden isn't any worse than the typical risk a Connecticut garden faces from a harsh winter each year.

The following statement was made: "As far as we know no commercial roses are immune to RR."

H.Kuska comment: There was a earlier thread started by Professor Tzanetakis (whose research group was the first to definitely characterize the infection) that told of his research concerning rose immunity.

" Twenty genotypes tested - 'Stormy weather' appears resistant to rose rosette virus under greenhouse conditions - Next step: field trials."

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3575226/resistance-to-rose-rosette-virus?n=39

If you use You Tube there are many videos posted on conferences about Rosetta, which answer the above questions. There is a map shown that shows that California is inflected. One may not notice it until you buy some new roses at nurseries. I don't know where Weeks Roses or Star Roses are bred. I don't know if the inflection began at the whole sale or the nursery level.

Regan Closing or Moving

Here are the photos. I had no idea what Rosetta was until I noticed this one rose growing strangely. I looked it up and found it as Rosetta. The whole thing had strange growth and there were big bright red stalks growing. So, I took it back to an unnamed nursery and they gave me a replacement. I thought the problem was over, but then later I had gone to Regan thinking I would get some roses at the going out of business sale. I bought four roses and now two of them are showing signs of Rosetta. The other two I am watching very carefully. I can not even say if somehow the first rose did make the other two sick, but the over lap between the two events was no more then two days. In other words if the Regan Roses got it from my inflected rose, they got it in just two days.

In all sincerity that does not look like rrd It appears to be heathy new growth. Would you mind one more photo from a little further back on the cane you are showing on the second photo. Trust me thou and put your worries aside it's definitely not rrd.

article on red foliage

He makes a distinction between new foliage starting out red and foliage turning bright red.

http://www.spnursery.com/why-are-the-tops-of-my-knock-out-roses-this-weird-red-color/

article of differences in symptoms from Missouri Botanical

The red foliage is all over and it looks like the first one I had with the Rosette virus, but I did not take a photo of that one. It has been raining a lot in Ukiah and I am afraid of cane rot spreading so I have the roses in pots in the the house. I put those two roses in a special sick room. I am thinking I may keep them around until I can further determine what is wrong, but I don't want to chance planting those outside. Symptoms of Rosette vary by species of rose and type of rose. I would not expect the knock out or the rosa mutiflora to have exactly the same type of look as others. I now have the sickening wait to see if any of the other five roses come down with symptoms.

I'd suggest contacting an American Rose Society Consulting Rosarian in your area--it is likely that they can put you in touch with someone really knows about RRD for an accurate diagnosis.
http://www.ncnhdistrict.org/

Those are healthy new laterals new growth on many roses starts as red or purple then slowly turns green as they mature. If they where outside in sunlight they would have already greened up.