Patricia, I am so sorry to hear this. I wish they could eliminate that plague.

As far as getting attached to any rose, it's too late. It would hurt badly to lose one, so I feel for you.

Randy

I'm so sorry Miss Patricia. I read the subject line of this thread and got an ill feeling.

Carole

Oh pat, I'm so sorry. I hope it's not coming this way. I think I had RRD on some roses a few years ago, but it's possible they had it before I got them, since they were only in the ground a few months before they went bad.

Oh, I am really sorry. I know it is really hearbreaking each time.
(((Hugs)))
Olga

Patricia, your report is really discouraging. I suppose if you were able to get that hard-to-get Cygon and use it to kill any mites presently in your garden they could just blow in again tomorrow, right? This is a terrible thing. Can't the infected wild Multiflora be eradicated? Can't something be done by the Ag Dept? It seems like there won't be any roses in the south if this goes on.

Do you have fields of infected Multiflora nearby like Ann Peck does? I feel awful for you. I wish something could be done. Something besides waiting for the next rose to die!

Sherry

Patricia,
Hugs. And at least you are catching it early.
but dang.
Buford,
RRD is all around Atlanta and has even been downtown in the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Sherry,
Going back several decades, RRD was intentionally spread by scientists at Iowa State to provide a cheap control for wild multiflora. These scientists reported that in their study in southern Iowa, that RRD seldom infected cultivated roses. And they proudly published about their efforts.

Patricia----I'm so sorry----I understand how attached we all get to our rose babies-----

Florence

Ann, I read you e-book. I just wish those in authority would recognize the danger of doing nothing about something that spreads destruction so rampantly. Do you know if this mite has any natural enemies?

Sherry

Ann, I found some very disturbing information on a website last night, not sure it has validity, but one of the professors from the ME relocated to Auburn, has been using the mites of RRD to eradicate other crops that plague Alabamians and when discovered through some research of department heads, this practice was halted, but if this story is true, then the toothpaste is already too far out of the tube to put it back in and you know I am an hour's drive SW of Auburn.

Patricia,
Can you send me something on that to my email (abpeck @ att.net)? I've got some folks I can check with.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't either of the principal investigators, both of whom are still at Iowa State although one is emeritus (snort). There were some other names, and one or two M.S. theses done elsewhere and I don't know where those folks have landed.
Ann

That's horrible Patricia. I wish you could prove it and sue him. Do you know if others in your area are having as bad of a problem as you are?

I'm so sorry to hear this Patricia. It must be devastating to have this unseen plague descend upon your roses.

Rosefolly

Patricia, I'm so sorry to hear this sad news. It always hurts to lose a rose, and can be so discouraging.

Sherry, I missed your question before (sorry). There are some partially effective natural enemies of this (and other) eriophyid mites. Predaceous thrips and predaceous mites will keep the populations from spreading but can't be counted on to keep all the mites off of a rose. (The predaceous thrips are the reason that our roses don't suffer from thrip damage to the petals all season long. With predators, their population builds as their food source builds; it's the lag time in surges of populations that are what allows the pests to be a problem.)

Ann, I will sure do that if I can find it again. I was googling when I found it which is the same way I found the information for NearlyWild and Randy on the above-noted subjects. I am going to try and find it now. I know I should have saved it but it was late and I was almost comatose.

Ann, thanks for your answer. That is a bit of encouragement. And not to sound glib about this, but when they were being laid waste by a more powerful, unbeatable enemy, the Israelites prayed for the Lord to fight it and defeat it for them. There is always hope.

Sherry

Patricia, I'm so sorry. (((Hugs))) Your advice to not get too attached to any one rose is good--if difficult to practice! For me it was hard digging up a plant which had such a graceful form, winter and summer, and had provided so many nice whiffs for us and for passerby. (Most of my roses are planted next to the sidewalk.) Very, very discouraging for you. Depending on how far this has spread through mine, I'm beginning to wonder whether (*gasp*) I ought to give up on roses. :-( If I have to dig up more beauties in the coming months...

We don't give up.
Period.
We live with RRD.
We react appropriately when we must.

But they'll have to pry my roses from my cold dead hands before I give up.
Join me in saying we don't give up.

:-D OK, Ann, with you to advise and encourage us, WE WON'T GIVE UP!

What Reilly said. If you don't give up Ann, we won't give up.

Carla

Patricia, hugs, million hugs. I really wished that was over for you as I wish it were over for anybody else.

Patricia, dear, I am so very sorry to hear your sad news! Sending best wishes that your other roses stay safe.
Love and hugs...Missy

Hugs to patricia.

WE DON'T GIVE UP.

We stay vigilant to any organization, local, state or federal, who even tries to recommend using RRD-infected mites to eradicate R. multiflora (and they still try it, we've been there in PA and stopped that).

Patricia,
I'm so sorry to hear you are having rose rosette problems: (
Remy