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Rose rosette disease or not?

Nadya
4 years ago

Hi all,


some new growth has popped up on my hybrid teas that doesn't quite look legit. For one, the leaves are a bit narrow (but maybe just young? that's my denial talking). They are also red (but maybe just young?) The weirdest thing for me is that they are growing sideways out of stems, not on the top of the stem as is custom.


What say you? RRD or not?


For what it's worth, I'm in Northern VA, zone 7. There is a wicked case of RRD on wild rose canes in a nearby park, just vicious. The odd thing is that you always read about how terrible RRD is, and last summer I saw quite a bit of it on my neighbor's knockout roses. They trimmed it off right then and there, and this year their roses are good as new, with nothing sick on them. So maybe I can just trim this off and see what happens?


Again, that might be just my denial talking..

Growing sideways

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