Raspberry From seed

If it's got no leaves, then scratch the stem with your fingernail - if it's green underneath - then it's alive and well 
from another poundland buyer 

Quote from: mumofstig on May 29, 2013, 17:05

If it's got no leaves, then scratch the stem with your fingernail - if it's green underneath - then it's alive and well 
from another poundland buyer 

See that is why this forum is great, tips and hints on buying as well as growing. Thank you, I can buy with a bit more confidence.

Ok with just a little update, went to poundland and did the scratch test on about half a dozen raspberry canes and twice that thorn-less gooseberry plants, all brown and no green, the anemic shoots from the buds were all pale and brittle. So I didn't buy anything. So Thank you MoS you've saved me a bit of money there, I'll be looking to take softwood cutting from the plants on my mini-plot allotment as I'm told you can take them at the start of summer.

If you already have some raspberries I wouldn't worry too much as they a prolific at sending off runners.

the two plots are about 2 miles apart, the runners might take a bit of time to grow that far