It figures I would get it as soon as I made that last post!

Thank you Rosefolly. That makes a lot of sense. The one other rose that I ordered with it had more yellow than usual as well.(Golden Buddah) The cooler weather is responsible I'm sure. Now to find an empty container for it!

Not only cooler weather but less daylight hours also. Very probably the latter is more important. I'm talking about leaf drop.

Yes, shorter days makes sense too as until just a few days ago we were still in the 85F range during the day. I'm wondering about yellowed leaves in general also. Do they "green up" as conditions improve ( like black spot getting under control, or better light, or the right nutrients when it was lacking them). Or do most yellow leaves drop anyway and are replaced with green when conditions improve?

If leaf yellowing is due to some nutritional deficiency they often, but not always, green up if the deficiency is rectified. If yellowing is due to senescence or shock then they drop. I understand that BS infected leaves mostly drop if infection is advanced. Tissue damage due to fungal disease or any other factor does not really 'heal' as far as I know and can become the entry point for secondary infections.

I think most of the yellow leaves on other roses are due to shock and a little black spot. When I go to pick them off the whole tiny stem with 3-7 leaves( leaflet maybe what those are called?) comes off easy as soon as I touch it. Now that they have been removed no more have turned yellow. It is ok to carefully remove those leaves I hope? Most would fall off anyway as they were hardly even attached anymore.

Lisa, it won't hurt anything to take off yellow leaves; they're on their way out already. You should see new leaf buds soon where the yellow leaves were attached to the can. As a whole your band looks healthy to me.

Yes, a rose leaf is compound comprised of leaflets. So the leaf is the whole structure attached to the cane.

The tiny "stem" with 3-7 individual leaves is the LEAF and the individual " leaves" are LEAFLETTES? So I could say " Two leaflettes were yellow, but the rest of the leaf was healthy"? Yes?

Ingrid, Thank you. It sure looks better after getting rid of those yellow leaves doesn't it? My hands are scratched to bits, because I never have my gloves on. I see the yellow leaves and plan to only remove the few "worst offenders" and end up not stopping until every ugly yellow leaf is gone. By then my hands are pretty beat up, no matter how careful I am:)

I think this is almost certainly due to the shock of transport and is perfectly normal and natural.

I'm glad to hear all of this. Thank you everyone. I think I will go ahead and repot it today. I'm thinking of keeping this one in a large, permanent container. The one it's sitting in in the photo actually. Does anyone grow Salet in a pot? I'm tempted to plant it directly into this large container without the inbetween sizes. Think I can get away with it? I use a well draining mix, a top mulch, and some empty water bottles in the bottom for extra bottom drainage. It's the only moss rose I intend to try and now is the perfect planting time here, so I feel like it won't have many obstacles to overcome other than the swift move from band to large container.

Since I didn't hear anyone screaming "No don't do that", I did plant Salet into its large permanent container today. We shall see how it does. At least this one won't be gopher dinner!

I have never identified a need to plant a rose in stages upping the pot size every now and then rather than planting it directly in the final pot. With some other plants yes, for fear of root rot problems, but not with roses. At least in my climate. People here plant unrooted cuttings directly in the ground and they do fine.