With my cuttings I don't concern myself with pruning when they are so young. They need the leaves to help grow larger roots. Maybe next year when they were more established. Congratulations unrooting it! What was your method?

Don't prune at all. More leaves and plant will feed your baby plant. The own root nurseries don't recommend pruning for 2 years or so.

Awesome thanks! This was a red rose I bought at a gas station on Mother's Day for $3.00. I took it home and used a plastic tote with holes drilled into it on all sides and filled it with three layers, the first layer was sand 2" thick, then I added a layer of perlite 2" thick, then for the top layer I used potting soil 2" thick and then soaked it. I then cut the rose to size to fit in the tote. Once the rose was the appropriate size I lightly shaved the end of it with a knife and cut an "X" on the bottom of the stem and dipped it into rooting hormone (the powder form) and placed it into the tote. I used a stick to make a preformed hole and stuck it down until it was half way through the sand layer and gently and lightly packed the soil around the stem to keep it in place. I then wrapped a clear garbage bag all the way around the tote and put the whole thing in a shady spot and periodically checked on it. Once it began to root I move it into a pot and placed a zip lock bag over it until it was better established. After it showed new signs of growth I place the pot in the part of the garden that receives 6 hours of morning sun and afternoon shade. Now I don't know how to proceed, I don't know whether or not to put it in the ground before fall or to bring it in for the winter and baby it until next spring.

Except for those in greenhouses managed specifically for their production roses generally aren't wild about being indoors, with people bringing home potted flowering roses from floral departments often finding them hard to grow inside a typical dwelling afterward. (Many kinds of potted flowering plants produced and distributed by the florist pot crop industry are intended by them to be thrown out after use, as though they were cut flowers). So you should plant your cutting out in its permanent garden location this year, maybe next month for instance. Definitely before November.

Since unless you know otherwise "a red rose I bought at a gas station" might be a florist variety you should be sure to mulch your new planting well to retard frost penetration. And be prepared for top damage during cold periods. If it dies back badly some winter you might have to consider protecting the top during the coldest time of the year with an insulating material on a routine basis.

I was told it was a hybrid tea. How much room should I leave around plant for future growth? I am excited to finally have a decent rose variety to tend to, I have never grown roses though and don't know much about their size and room needs.