Life expectancy of rasberry plants

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Kirpi

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Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« on: June 24, 2012, 22:26 »
We have had our allotment for getting on to five years now and we inherited a line of rasperry plants which fruited in our first year, so they were at least one year old when we took them on.

This year, there are noticeably fewer canes and the leaves are very few and smaller than they were last year.

It may be the drought we had earlier this year, but I wonder if these plants are just exhausted. They have been manured, and mulched with old straw, but they still seem to be struggling.

Last year was a heavy crop. This year I don't expect much.

Do raspberry plants die off eventually?

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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2012, 22:43 »
do you prune them each year?
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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2012, 23:24 »
I prune out the harvested canes each year. This year the plants didn't throw so many canes up and the ones that did are not looking strong.

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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2012, 00:06 »
Give them the benefit of the doubt this year - the weather has been far from ideal ;)

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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2012, 19:27 »
Will do

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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2012, 19:31 »
Raspberries are very shallow rooting so the dry winter followed by the dry weather earlier in the year my have had an adverse effect despite the mulching and manuring.

I would give them a really thick layer of manure this autumn and make sure they are kept moist, and see what next year brings
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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2012, 19:34 »
http://www.acornorganic.org/pdf/Raspberrynotes.pdf

in this link, it says the plant's life span is 10-15 years

so maybe there is a posibility that your plants have reached their ends.

not sure, but you can always compare yours with neighbour's and if their ones were not affected by the bad weather, then something isn't right with yours.
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Re: Life expectancy of rasberry plants
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2012, 21:30 »
strange mine were slow last year first year in though and they have gone mad this year, full of fuit and new canes up to 4ft already
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