[jig]

 
Could do with some advice please

[Pol]

Hi Jig welcome to the welcome forum, you need to ask this on the grow your own
Pol

[mumofstig]

are they autumn fruiting or summer fruiting? as they are pruned in different ways

I've moved it to Grow your own 

[Ian_A]

On the plot I first inherited I had a mix of autumn and summer raspberries and cut them all down the same way after the season without a thought. But despite worrying a bit about it for a bit afterwards thinking /knowing it was the supposedly the wrong thing to do, when it came to the following year, all the canes of both types, gave wonderful raspberries.

Now I know there are different ways to deal with the different types but heck, this worked fine. And the second year I did the same and got a great crop again the following year.

[LaraJ]

Hello, I am new too.   I inherited both rasberry canes on my plot too.   Here's what i have found out.   The big long thick ones were the summer flowering ones and you need to wait and see which of those canes give you fruit this summer - and then they are the ones you cut down when you have harvested the fruits.   The other canes in that summer fruiting patch will give you the fruits the next year, so leave those ones alone.

The autumn fruiting canes appeared to be smaller and thinner on my plot and they are the ones I was told to cut right back by about now - right to the ground.   They give the fruits on the bits they grow this year.

I have also read that you should mulch around the plants with compost or well-rotted manure as this will help to keep moisture in the ground around the plant.

And then there's the question of supporting them.   The summer ones seem to grow really tall and mine have posts sunk into the ground either end and then washing line about my knee height (60cm ish - I am small!!) and then about my waist height (metre and a bit) and I think you are supposed to loop the canes into that (it is doubled so I just twist the cane into it).   I think once they get above the height of the top of the post you can also bend the tips into the topmost line so they arch over - looks pretty!!   The autumn ones don't get that tall so they don't need any supports (I say that now, I may be wrong as I have never seen mine in the autumn, having only got my plot in January!)

Don't know anything about feeding or watering them and I have no idea if they need netting from the birds.

Can't wait to taste mine though, and learn to make jam and stuff with them, as I seem to have rather a lot of them!!

Good luck, keep us posted how you go.

Lara

[Kristen]

Pruning Raspberries doesn't require that you know whether they are Summer of Autumn varieties.

Cut down any cane that has fruited soon after it finishes (i.e. when you can still see the remnants of the fruit - if you leave it too long it becomes hard to tell which ones fruited, and which didn't!)

In effect if yours are Summer fruiting you will cut down 50% of the canes each year, and if they are Autumn fruiting you will cut down 100%

If you find that you have plenty of canes overwintering them you have Summer fruiting (and maybe Autumn fruiting as well ) in which case some supporting may be needed - depends a bit how strongly they grow, you might get away without.

[lancashiregardeninggal]

A couple of years ago I cut back a yellow fruiting raspberry and instead of growing nice long new canes it is now constantly throwing up suckers that only grow 2 - 3 ft high - nightmare - but I assume this is because it is a yellow fruiter as I have never had any probs with the red kind

[SG6]

Sounds like the raspberry is allgold,it is an autumn fruiting one and those suckers were the canes.

Keep the plant moist by adding a layer of mulch, they do not like drying out, the rots are near the surface.

[JohnB47]

"Cut down any cane that has fruited soon after it finishes (i.e. when you can still see the remnants of the fruit - if you leave it too long it becomes hard to tell which ones fruited, and which didn't!)

In effect if yours are Summer fruiting you will cut down 50% of the canes each year, and if they are Autumn fruiting you will cut down 100%"

How simple Kristen. Thanks.

[Aunt Sally]

The old timers on our site say that 1st February is THE day to prune autumn fruiting raspberries.

Very exact eh 

[lancashiregardeninggal]

Sounds like the raspberry is allgold,it is an autumn fruiting one and those suckers were the canes.

Keep the plant moist by adding a layer of mulch, they do not like drying out, the rots are near the surface.

Thanks for that - it is Allgold - its my first fruiting disaster 

[viettaclark]

I cut down the canes on my autumn fruiting but maybe not far enough! Left a couple of inches and there are buds on the canes!!
Will these do anything or should I rub them out?
I've also noticed there are less root based new canes but new ones are coming up in all the wrong places.
I've dug up and replanted those where I want them!!

[Kristen]

The old timers on our site say that 1st February is THE day to prune autumn fruiting raspberries.

Very exact eh 

I'm a rebel, I sometimes don't prune mine until after lunch ...

[totalnovice]

The old timers on our site say that 1st February is THE day to prune autumn fruiting raspberries.

Very exact eh 

OH NO! disaster! I didn't do mine 'till the 4th? will they still be ok?!!