[Stratts]

I found some raspberry plants growing when we got the lotty last year and they were quite small.

Moved the to their current position and made a trailing frame thingy, expecting them to grow along but there aint many trailing bits.  They seem more bushy to me and quite low.

Can you get small bush types of raspberry?  They are very healthy and are showing loads of flower clusters, I'm just not sure if they will suddenly go mental and long?

Cheers

[monkeygee]

as with all fruit plants you can get trailing , climbing or bush types , let them grow for a while and see how they turn out

[Yorkie]

I've never heard of trailing raspberries 

[love-my-plot]

nor climbing ... only know of raspberry bushes 

[JayG]

As far as I know raspberries are neither natural climbers or trailers, although when the canes are young they can be trained to some extent if you so wish and if space is available, but it's not like training a deciduous fruit tree (eg espalier-wise) because the canes of all types are cut down after a year.

I suppose the word "bush" is a matter of definition, my autumn rasps look like bushes at the moment because they are only about 18" tall, but when they are about 7' tall later in the summer I would say they look more like, well, a row of raspberries! 

[Christine]

I thought that the term was raspberry canes?

[Mark-S]

Autumn raspberry grow more like bushes, summer ones certainly more like canes. Personally, I prefer my autumn bush like rasps, cut them down each winter and they grow back bushier.

[sunshineband]

Some raspberries are clump forming, but most grow canes some distance from where you first planted them, which if you do not thin them become a thicket

Sounds like yours are healthy enough Stratts, so go with it and see what you get  

[gavinjconway]

post a pic so we can see what they are... maybe... 

[mumofstig]

It's blackberries and tayberries that you can train along wires,.
some summer varieties of raspberry can grow tall canes, and may need tying in to stop them blowing about, but they don't trail 
The Autumn raspberries don't need tying up at all   

[Stratts]

Ah ok it's just that my neighbour has them going along canes horizontally so he must train them and tie them in place.  Mine are defo bush like I'll get a pic tmoro, ta

[love-my-plot]

I usually sick a cane or two in to support them as they grow taller but their main
supports are soft rubbery tubular wire from one end of the row to the other.

[Stratts]

You know what I have a feeling next doors may be tayberries now I've looked at a pic of them!

[mumofstig]

That's that sorted then