Really? When does the patent expire? Do you know the particular reasoning behind it?

I just saw a casual Youtube video on doing this. I wouldn't have guessed it was illegal...

It's too bad because it really is a nice rose. Smell is wonderful and the leaves are dark and strong...

Current plant patents expire 21 years after they are issued, unless they are renewed. It is VERY common for cuttings to throw leaves and even flowers well before they callus and root. Many behave exactly that way and never root as they have expended their energy producing the leaves and flowers and no longer contain enough to root. If it's behaving this way, I've not encountered a successful method of interrupting it and forcing it to root. It's just going to flower and collapse. Once it does, it's time to try again. Good luck!

roseseek: Wow, thank you for the information. That makes sense. It sounds like early growth is not the greatest. Perhaps cutting one of the other stems would help redirect the energy..?

Looks like this was introduced in 2011/2012 by Weeks Wholesale - it's a very new Rose. I'll find an older variety to propagate and give out to family. If this one works, I'll keep it in my garden.

You're welcome! If it works as wrapping does, temperature may play a part in determining what the material wants to do. If you keep wraps below 60F, they store like produce, not developing, just sitting there doing nothing. If you store them above 70F, they appear to want to push leaves and not root. Right between 60 and about 68F, they form callus and begin rooting. Maybe trying to shoot for that temperature range may help? It's worth investigating. Good luck!

What should I do now? I have one cup with roots along the bottom. I don't want the plant to dry out and die...so I suppose I should gradually remove the bag from atop the plant... I left some space in the zip lock for air to come through.

You'll see here that it actually is putting out a small rosebud:

Congratulations! I would first carefully pinch off the flower bud. It very likely won't be very attractive and it will definitely sap strength from the plant. You are spot on about gradually removing the bag so the plant hardens off. If you're having rains right now and the temps are not extremely hot or cold, you can easily harden it off under the rains. If not, keep it where you have it, but lift the bag gradually, to expose it to less moist, less controlled conditions until you can completely remove the bag. The plant is going to show you whether you're doing it properly or not by how it looks. Plants will "talk to you", if you watch how they respond to what you do to/for them. Learning to listen with your eyes is the key. Good luck! Ya done good!

Wow, congratulations! That's cool. I haven't had much luck rooting anything for several yrs. Not sure why. But I recently took cuttings off my old SPICE TWICE plant that I had given to my mom yrs ago. I finally got two cuttings to root! They're hardening off out with my younger plants by the garage. Can't wait for them to get big and bloom!! It's really exciting when you do get them to root, that's for sure!

I used to be pretty successful at it, around 75%. I stopped for several years and must have forgotten how to do it as I have killed everything I tried this year!

Not necessarily. Conditions are different now than they have been. What worked before, may not work as easily as it used to. Keep practicing until you hit on the right tweaks required to make it work. Most places are hotter than they have traditionally been, a few are cooler. Extremes are more extreme. You can very likely still propagate, but it is very likely you will need to alter something to make it work as it used to.

I think temperatures may have a lot to do with it. If you have them in a warm environment, it may cause them to leaf out just like how bare roots will start leafing out before time if not kept refrigerated. Try and keep them in a cooler environment and see if you have better luck. I cant find a good place for mine since its always 80 degrees here. I've had my best success rooting them in an air conditioned closet kept at around 76 degrees, but something tells me they would do better in a cooler environment.

I have been doing cuttings for 25 years. I get close to 90% take. If you want to see my method, I did a cutting on my video. Go to Utube. Punch on Decatur Roses