"Velvet touch rose care has implemented a plan to help control the spread of RRD. It consists of aggressive pruning during the dormant stage of the rose, application of lime sulfur also during the dormant period and regular 14 day spray applications of specialized miticides to kill and control the eriophyid mite that transmits the disease"

I wish it included aggressive reaction during the rose growing seasons. I wonder if the "specialized miticides" are systemics (to be named at a future date if they work) because two weeks between spray wouldn't help if the a virus-carrying mite arrived on day 1 after the spraying and found undifferentiated meristemic tissue.

The problem with Lime sulphur over winter is What's it supposed to do? Drown the mite and all beneficials? The wintering stages of the mite generally aren't exposed to the air/spray.

Also, they have oversimplified the symptoms of RRD.