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Jan 14, 2021 12:44 AM CST
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I just bought this bareroot rose bush. I'm new to planting roses and just read about the rose rosette disease. This one looks like it has a lot of prickles (please see image). Can you please help check to see if it has rose rosette disease? Thank you very much.
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Jan 14, 2021 1:23 AM CST
Name: Daniel
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I'm pretty new to roses as well but It looks healthy to me (:

Maybe others could help out too?

I know that different roses have different amounts of thorns and some have a lot of thorns

My parents have an older orange rose that gets a crazy amount of thorns but it's been rose rosette free (:

Welcome to the rose family btw!!!
What rose did your purchase?
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Jan 14, 2021 2:28 AM CST
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Looks totally normal from what I can see since the image doesn't enlarge. Some roses are just thornier than others.
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Jan 14, 2021 2:51 AM CST
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Welcome to NGA, APlantAddict. It looks like a fine thorny rose should. RRD identification usually requires monitoring multiple things like unusual foliage color and sizes (new reddish leaves that start reddish/purplish but they never change to green after a month or so), unusual flowers (by itself, this can be caused by other factors), clustering of 'out of control' growth near the ends of the canes (called witches' broom; for example, a space of one square inch flooded with lots/dozens of tiny leaves, etc.), a "many" fold increase in the number of thorns (think maybe 5 or more times more than in your rose but in a small area), canes that wildly change size (for example, they start thin or medium size and, and after a certain spot, the cane suddenly become much more thicker... but I have seen this by itself in apparently uninfected roses too), flowers that "do not look" right (by itself, this may be caused by other problems), etc.

For more info and symptom details, go to the link below and view the video titled "Do your roses have RRD?"
https://roserosette.org/

The bad news is that RRD is in many areas in Oklahoma so while the plant may not have issues now, you cannot tell what will happen -say- ten years in the future. If you plan to buy many ro$e$, monitor the roses that you see in commercial areas and city/county plantings for signs of RRD (nobody maintains them well so they catch RRD and stay passing the infections for years until the plants die). My sister's roses were all killed several years ago. I used to have over 100 but that number has dwindled to the high 20s. I no longer replace them with new roses or have bought roses in almost 5+ years, save for some florist/grocery minis as presents. I do promptly remove the roses when I see enough signs of RRD.

Post again if you have unexpected developments but remember it usually requires multiple symptoms. For example, only lots of thorny canes may usually be ok. Lots of new foliage with reddish tint at any time is usually also ok by itself. It is best to look for witches' brooms and out of control, really weird growth. See the video.
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