I am new to Rugosa variety. I now have a new hedge of them and am wanting advice. We dug them up from another site and transplanted them in our yard. The sun is good and there has been a good amount of rain on the soil. The plants are 3-5 years old and about 3 1/2 feet tall. We tried to keep as much original dirt on the roses as possible but mostly they were bare root when they went into the ground. We put leaf mulch in the holes before covering them over and now water them a few times a day. We planted them this past Sunday and it is now Friday. A few stalks still have green leaves but the rest are turning dryish and brown.
Enough backstory, my question is, since it is the fall should we prune the roses to 6 inch stalks to try to help out the root system? Or will this additional trauma totally kill the plants? Any other suggestions to help them get over the move?

I say about this rose what Graham Thomas used to say about Mme. Hardy: It's still the most beautiful white rose in existence. And unlike Mme. Hardy (which I also love), it appears to repeat well, it has a gorgeous change of foliage color in fall, and it'll feed its owner instead of the other way around (the hips are huge and tasty). :)

I don't own one--have just seen them various places.
That's made4 me want one (or many!), so I've put myself on the "want cuttings" list. I'd also be glad to get seeds, and would of course pay postage.