pruning raspberries

[Eoghan]

As far as I can tell the late fruiting rasps are pruned to the ground, early fruiting only the "old" canes.

My canes are descendants of raspberries purchased in LIDL a decadew ago - would they be early or late? Any way to tell?

[burnie]

Difficult if not impossible to know unless you know what they are, or when they fruited, I'd remove any that look dead then cut the growth in half. I did this with some autumn fruiting plants and got some early fruits on the pruned shoots and then the new canes gave me a later crop. If they are summer fruiting, you should still get a crop from half stems. Then write down when they fruit for next year.

[Scarlet]

Spent canes are usually very brown and snap easily. Remove those now.

The summer fruiting canes with only fruit on the growth that remains. Any new canes won't bear fruit.

Autumn fruiting canes will fruit on the canes that remain in the summer but the new growth will also fruit late summer and early autumn.
The autumn canes are also a little better behaved. They are shorter and don't need any support.

[veggiechicken]

If they're brown, cut them down.
If they're green, leave them be seen.

[Babru]

If they're brown, cut them down.
If they're green, leave them be seen.

This is helpful VC, thanks.

[veggiechicken]

I actually use the "snap" technique!
Pull a "brown" cane down to the horizontal. If it snaps its dead. If you think it should snap, stand on it. That'll fix it!!

[KevinM67]

Without sounding too 'geekish' - with new shoots coming through this year, I would get some cheap electrical tape from the Pound shop.
Those canes that fruit this year - I would label them with one colour of the electical tape (i.e. Yellow tape - Autumn fruiting rasberries).
Those that didn't fruit - I would label with a different colour of tape (i.e. Red tape - Summer fruiting).
It's mainly for helping for what to prune at the end of the year - those with yellow tape get pruned, those with red tape get left for next year.

[Can the Man]

Without sounding too 'geekish' - with new shoots coming through this year, I would get some cheap electrical tape from the Pound shop.
Those canes that fruit this year - I would label them with one colour of the electical tape (i.e. Yellow tape - Autumn fruiting rasberries).
Those that didn't fruit - I would label with a different colour of tape (i.e. Red tape - Summer fruiting).
It's mainly for helping for what to prune at the end of the year - those with yellow tape get pruned, those with red tape get left for next year.

Very good tip Kevin, might try this myself later this year but I think all my rasberry are autumn fruiting and I replanted all new plants last year from the runners and got rid of the old plants.

[Muddy_Boots]

Got some Autumn fruiting ones in co-op flower buckets ready to be transplanted in plot 2 soon as I get my car on Friday, the earliest I can get them in the ground will be this weekend. Not looking forward to seeing what I've got to tackle but I'll have to assess the priority jobs first, one of which will be digging over plots 1 and 3. Plot 1 will take about an hour to dig over as the soil is fantastic, plot 3 a little longer but should take no longer than about 3 hours to dig. Plot 2 is a different animal as its got fruit bushes and Raspberry canes on it so that one will take a good week to lick into shape after the winter ravages.