looking for raspberry reassurance.

i'm still confused if i've done the right thing with my raspberries, and the pruning that i done in the early winter. so looking for reassurance if i have done it right or what i should do next year if i've messed it up.

they were new canes last year, i'm hoping this may be the reason for my confusion / mistake. the canes i planted fruited and died back so i cut these out mid summer. new canes grew up, these then fruited and by autumn they also started to die off.

so as pretty much all i have read and heard once the can has fruited they won't again, so i pruned these out. however this has only left the odd spindly cane that hasn't fruited.

i've recently read that people are talking about buds on their canes emerging, or waiting for them to emerge.

so now i'm wondering where the fruit will come from this year and / or if any at all?

should i have left the last canes that grew and fruited for this year?

obviously nothing i can do about it now but would like to know for next year so i don't mess up again.

is this due to them being new canes last year and this year they will sort themselves out with canes that have not fruited this year that i can leave over winter?

thanks in advance.

when i brought them the person didn't know what variety they were, but as they were really cheap i brought them anyway and see what happens.

but they started to produce the first fruit in june ish, but also produced fruit through the summer and still producing in early november.

i'm guessing they were confused what was going on as they were fresh canes, but not really sure if thus is common.

thanks for the reply.

Every cane that has fruited gets cut right back irrespective of weather hey are summer or autumn fruiting.
No raspberryy fruit every other year, so your new canes will be showing themselves in the next month and will be fruiting by late summer/ early autumn. Leave them till about mid November then, once more, cut down all fruited canes.
As mentioned, a good feed of BFB, and then a heavy mulch will do them the world of good right now.

Totty

thanks for all the replies.

sounds like the process should be a bit more clearer this year when they won't be fresh canes. maybe the raspberries are as confused as me about whats going on. lol.

i wouldn't say i had a good crop from them, probably one supermarket sized punnet per cane ish. they came in short bursts, a small hand full at a time, so not really easy to judge the quantity. i didn't think i would get anything to be honest as they were a bit late going in any way. but as you've prob guessed what do i know. lol