I'm fairly new to own root roses too, but they look good to me. I put some direct in the ground 2 years ago, 1 is 5 foot tall already. I have others 1 year old in pots like yours, and they appear to have filled those pots, so don' t be disheartened, they were just like yours when I got them..

I often grow my own-root roses in a 2 or 3 gallon nursery pot before moving them up to a 22 inch pot. Sometimes the root systems seem to be about the size of an orange!

From the picture yours look like they have good size root systems and should do fine in your pots.

I well remember the shock of unpacking my very first shipment of own root roses. The root systems didn't look anything like the huge grafted plants I grew back in the 70's! I don't miss having to dig those BIG HUGE holes...

That depends to a great degree on the specific rose. Some produce pretty amazing root development rather quickly while others produce virtually nothing. That's the issue with roses that don't perform well own root, not saying the ones you obtained don't, but this is why some take forever to "mature" while others gallop right out of the gate. Remember, too, these are "babies", immature specimen of the varieties you bought and like infants, require a "nursery period" to mature. Softer, thinner, smaller mass tissue like this is far more susceptible to freezes, drying out, being cooked in overly hot pots and other conditions, being fried by fertilizers and other chemicals, etc., which is why many of us pot them until they produce larger, thicker, more mature roots and develop into larger plants before putting them in the ground. Plant some rose seeds and raise a batch of seedlings. You will see first hand how some roses simply explode into mature plants as soon as they germinate, with enormous, woody roots while many others fail to thrive. Those that fail to thrive never produce the kind of roots you were expecting...the kind that come with two year bare roots. From what I see in your photos, they look as I would expect for young plants. They COULD have more growth beneath the soil had they been held by the nursery longer, but then you wouldn't be planting them now instead of months from now or even next year. Sometimes you get a pot overflowing with roots. Others you get what appears to have been a more recently upsized band in a gallon of dirt. Usually, that's the luck of the draw, though some nurseries won't ship them out until they feel they've been in the larger pot long enough to have produced the root mass they wish to send out. Some have seemed to consider the plant the size of pot it's planted in as soon as it is put in that size container. Given average care, I would expect yours to be fine.

Yes. They will be fine. Just leave them alone for a while, so they can grow more roots.

Jackie

Yes, it's normal for own root roses. You are probably used to grafted roses where the root stock is 2 years old when it's budded. Rose Petals Roses are good quality and do very well.

I did notice a bud in the 1st pic. You might want to pinch that off to let the plant focus its energy on making roots, instead of blooming.

You know what I did with some baby roses with young tender roots ... I put them in biodegradable peat pots, nested inside of another pot or raised bed.

I dont have a lot of experience with gardening in pots and don't have the professional experience as some others giving you great advice here, but in my limited experience that seemed to help the root system build up and it also helps keep the roots intact if I need to transplant later, without disturbing them. If I don't need to transplant them later, the biodegradable pots will just break down within a year or so.

Biodegradable pots are fairly inexpensive so it seemed like a small expense to help get them established (when you consider how much time and money we all spend on roses).

Your new roses look great!

^^^ I do this with peat pots with a lot of plants. Just make sure to tear off the top edge of the peat pot or plant it do the pot is buried. Exposed peat pots draw water away and it can dry out your plant too much. That's been my experience.

Oh yes! Good point. Thanks for mentioning that! I neglected to.

I agree - if it was mine I would definitely pot the baby rose up for at least 6 months, until it can grow some roots and attain some size. Then, at least in our garden, I would plant it in the ground with a wire cage around it to protect it from our visiting deer eating it.

Jackie