[digby1958]

Hi. I was given some Autumn raspberries two years ago. They have taken and are really strong, yet show no signs of producing any flowers which will in turn become fruit. Has anyone any experience of non fruiting raspberries and if there is an answer! Thanks.

[Trillium]

Its very possible you were given another variety and not the actual autumn fruiting one. The first year I planted my autumn fruiter, it gave me a few berries, more the 2nd year and loads this year, so perhaps yours needs another year.

[mumofstig]

I've very few flowers yet on the Joan J autumn fruiting raspberries.

It's only mid summer so don't expect any for a while

If they were flowering now they would be summer raspberries (unless they were autumn ones they weren't pruned in the winter )

[Ralphy]

i had the first berry off my joan j today! i reckon the warm april weather gave them a good head start cos they've actually caught up with my glen ample spring fruiting ones which are still producing loads of fruit, and rather strangly the glen amples have started flowering on THIS years canes. I guess that plants just don't read the same books as us and just have no idea how to behave! 

[Yorkie]

Have you pruned them and, if so, when did you do it?

[digby1958]

.......I'm pretty sure I pruned them early Spring.

[Yorkie]

Well I think that's correct, so rules that out as a potential solution 

[emptydraw]

i had the first berry off my joan j today! i reckon the warm april weather gave them a good head start cos they've actually caught up with my glen ample spring fruiting ones which are still producing loads of fruit, and rather strangly the glen amples have started flowering on THIS years canes. I guess that plants just don't read the same books as us and just have no idea how to behave! 

Ralphy, mine are exactly the same, I have both Glen Ample and Autumn Bliss. I've had lots of Glen Ample fruit already, but BOTH are coming into flower now.
I put it down to the wierd weather this year!

[Grubbypaws]

My Polka shows no of flowers yet, I wouldn't expect it to so dont worry digby

[viettaclark]

I have Polka and  a gold Autumn rasperry and although you can see the start of buds clumping on the top I have no flowers as yet.
And that's here in Southampton which is usually pretty early.

[galen]

I was pleasently suprised to discover a few, ripe and tasty,  berries on one of my Autumn Brice canes over the weekend but I wasn't expecting them and only a few of the other 20 odd canes are starting to flower. Looking forward to tonnes of fruit until the first frosts 

[sunshineband]

My Polka shows no of flowers yet, I wouldn't expect it to so dont worry digby

Mine neither, which is fine, as you said.

But they are over a metre tall this year