I think you are doing everything right. It is trying to grow roots, and the heat is affecting it - (telling it to go dormant). I would just WAIT until it gets cooler in the Fall - it should recover then. I would not feed it, or spray it with anything other than water.

Jackie

I have a few distant drums bands that keep showing damaged new growth. I appreciate the advice here! I just moved mine to afternoon shade to help them. Hope yours recovers once it cools off.

Good advice, Seil. I put my first ever rose in a clay pot and in my hot zone, it baked like a tandoori chicken. Lesson learned. Another lesson I learned was to plant my roses in fall, so that they have the longest chance to grow before facing the summer heat. I always schedule bands from Heirloom Roses or other nurseries to arrive in mid-October. Even when a nursery doesn't offer that option on line, they usually will accommodate you if you give them a call. I asked this from Northland Rosarium and For Love of Roses. They were happy to help.

Best wishes for your rose.

Thanks, everyone. Seil, I do think you're on to something with the pot choice but I've been a little scared that repotting it in this weather might do it in. I've noticed, though, that my 4 (much bigger) roses from RU are all in 3 gallon Smart Pots (fabric) and are still smashingly healthy. I do have one other band from Heirloom (Lyda Rose) that I got at the same time as Tahitian Sunset. From day one it was much bigger and healthier, though it's pale green now, too, and has some major blackspot. It's also in a terra cotta pot, though a 3 gallon one. The Heirloom ones are also in Miracle-Gro Organic Choice potting mix, while I used EcoScraps for the 4 from RU. Hmmm... I'm thinking my sick ones might like the same treatment. No fertilizer, of course. How does that sound?

We still have the hottest part of summer ahead of us, so I would repot them now.

Thirding Seil- I've not had much success growing things in terracotta - they are just too hard to get the watering right. In addition to the baking problem, they dont tend to drain when theres lots of rain. Possibly the ones you get in the US are of a different make, but every terracotta pot I have seen here just has one central hole for drainage down the bottom , which just doesn't work as well as the several holes around the bottom that most plastic type pots have. And terracotta is very awkward to drill holes into!

Just finished repotting Tahitian Sunset - didn't have enough soil left to do Lyda Rose today. That poor baby had almost NO root ball. It took some effort to dislodge it from the pot. I checked in there in case I missed some roots but only saw a few black strands left behind - must have rotted. Hope I was able to rescue it in time. Now just trying to keep it well watered, in the shade, and keeping fingers crossed that it'll recover. Thanks again!

I think it will respond in gratitude. Good luck. A spot with morning sun and afternoon shade would be best if you have it.

Yes, it will have sun in the morning. Thank you!

Also give it a little all purpose fertilizer with micro-nutrients, the pale green leaves with dark veins are sign of iron or manganese deficiency.

Would a tiny amount of diluted Alaska fish fertilizer help?

Alaska FF doesn't have micro-nutrients but if you have it on-hand then go ahead and use it. I prefer Miracle Gro rose food diluted to 1/3-1/2 strength.

Let it recover from the repotting process before feeding anything, I'm with Jackie on that.

So far so good. It looks pretty much the same, so the transplant was a success. Wow, I feel like a surgeon.