The more top you leave the more flowers you get afterward - recent plantings should have a way to go before it is time to cut out old worn-out canes. With routine extra hard pruning of hybrid teas being done to get long straight stems with biggest possible flowers on the ends. For cutting or competitive exhibition. And not to produce a fuller looking plant with lots of blooms. If the latter is your goal, then don't cut as much off.

Oooh thats soo interesting embothirum .,

this year i cut hard and really cleaned up my plants. my goal was to replicate the look of the bare roots i get , very cleaned up . my thought was , i always love that first flush from the new growth of a new plant . But now i wonder if i went too far. im still learning what works best in my zone . but i dont grow many hybrid teas so maybe its irrelevant

I tend to prune (and deadhead) hard-ish, because I don't want the tops of my (non-climbing) rose bushes looking down on me. But it depends on what you want... some folks love their HTs and FLs as monster 7-9 foot roses!

@a1an I'd be cautious to make sure the new "stems that have emerged from the soil" are actually coming from the graft, and not below it, which would be the understock. Check this carefully, or wait until the new growth blooms before you take out the older canes. As @Embothrium said, it's gonna be awhile on a new planting before you start taking out old canes. So a lot depends on how old your bushes are. On standards, I prune and deadhead to get new growth going where I want it. But I guess that's what I do on all of them, LOL.

Susan. They are new canes. Not many. I spy like a new one on just a handful of them, Maybe two on the more vigorus ones/ But I did spot them in the summer and traced it out - bloom was of the rose variant itself.

This year would be year 5 of planting.

But -many- others, it's mainly just the strong branches that came with the original rose planting and have WYE's off of them. In a -ideal scenario-, I would love to see new stems across all of them so that I know each bush can -self invigorate- while I can remove/cull out older canes. Not quite there yet but I suppose it just needs more -time-.

Literally , last year, was the year that some roses finally took off. Previouly it would be weeping wonders and last year, they finally got vigor that all new growth from spring to fall remained fairly vert.

I'm always keeping my eye out for new canes. Mainly because I know if a -new one will grow from soil up-, then I can cull out the older ones . Othewise, in my mind, which I'm still trying to wrap the concept of, is will I forever be stuck with the 4-5 canes that came from the original rose forever (the whole budding thing and where canes eminate from ) has never fully registered/translated into how new canes will come from soil but hopefully, in time, all the bushes will show new canes from soil up.