Sounds like a happy, healthy rose. Let the new cane bloom, then you can shorten it a little bit to balance the shape of the plant. Fall pruning is a bad idea, but mild shaping is okay.

Thanks, do I trim it in the spring?

In spring you can shorten all the canes to about 3 feet to keep it bushy. In your zone, you'll need to prune canes down slowly checking the pith (the tissue in the center of the cane). If the pith in the center of the cane is brown, that is winter damage - keep cutting until the pith in the center of the cane is white. After a cold winter, you may cut some canes down close to the base before finding white pith.

You could leave the cane and have future tall canes join it over time.

Do you have an actual tea rose or would it be a hybrid tea.

I think it's unlikely a real Tea would be doing this in NW Ohio...unless it's REALLY well-protected for Winter.

:-)

~Christopher

Patty - my question exactly. I'll bet it is a HT.

Jackie

If the rose is new it has not met old man winter yet. More than likely it is a HT.

Yes I think it is a hybrid tea rose.

In our area I don't think there are any HT's that are fully cane hardy. That does not mean it will die just that the canes die back. Then it will regrow from the bottom up again. There is one exception to this. Many people who start with a HT don't realize that most are grafted. That means that the roots are a different variety than the rose you see on top. Not sure how to explain the graft area. Hope someone helps me out. This graft must be buried around 4 inches below the ground when it is planted. Where we live it will freeze and kill the top part of your rose. Not many first time rose growers know this. So don't feel bad if your graft is not buried.

In the old days people would protect the graft in a different way. Most would make circle cages from chicken wire. Then cut the canes to around 3 feet and place the cage around the rose. Then pack the inside with leaves to protect the graft area from winters cold.

Since most hybrid teas canes do not survive winter it really does not hurt to trim to a desired height. It's just that the more leaves on a rose the better a rose can feed it self. You do have cane borers where you live so any time you trim a cane it's a good idea to seal the cuts.

Then in spring come back to get help with what time to prune. Also with help on how to tell how far you need to prune back.

There are many folks on here that can explain all of this much better than I do.