So, that shoot looks weird, but am I sure this variety doesn't normally produce shoots like that? I wanted to suggest that everyone in RRD areas tour the garden and study the normal new growth at a time when roses are making strong growth. Particularly, RRD on many (not all) varieties causes shoots with red stems, beet-red leaves, and red awl-shaped thorns that stay rubbery some distance down the shoot. Do you have any varieties that produce beet-red new stems or leaves in normal new growth? (For example, 'Chrysler Imperial' does normally have beet-red new leaves.) How about awl-shaped thorns, red-veined leaves, multiple shoots from the same bud site? Take notes if you aren't confident you'll remember. Make this tour more than once.

The other thing is not confusing herbicide damage with RRD. Find out if your yard people use herbicide in any form, and when. Ask the neighbors to alert you if they use herbicide anywhere near the roses and explain why you need to know. Always review your own herbicide use when suspecting RRD infection.

Yes - about half the roses in my garden, which are tea roses, which do this all of the time. In fact, that's how I spot the new growth - it is always red. China roses tend to do this too. I realize that RRD is a very bad thing, but folks should not panic just because they see red new growth.

Jackie

I have saved (knock on wood) a couple of plants this summer with this tactic. A third made some normal-looking shoots to start with, but several of those shoots produced secondary growth that was symptomatic, so I dug that plant today. I wish I had started doing this back in May when the first plant showed the first symptoms.

Laura. believe me, you are taking a great risk.

Tammy

Two roses in the southern garden are showing symptoms, along with another two in the eastern garden. RRD is a scourge and I'm heartbroken at the amount of roses that are being wiped out. Makes me sick everytime I see those twisted, ugly canes.

Hot Cocoa - New basal canes look rather scary. Growth on a healthy plant is rapid, hyperthorny, and just weird looking, but all's well.

Veteran's Honor - New growth is always deep burgundy, rubbery, and leaves are beet red until they are very large. As the bud matures, the burgundy begins to fade to green.

Wild multiflora with RRD has a yellowish cast with strong side shoots coming from unlikely sites. As I recall, the leaflets are smaller or narrower than usual. It's almost the opposite of the most typical modern-rose symptoms (dark red, oversized, hyper-thorny). What catches your eye is the pale yellowish-green foliage.