What to do with my Tayberry

[Gary]

Hi folks, not been around for sometime, been raising a new baby.
Anyway, last year I planted a Tayberry plant ( about 5 canes in one pot ) wasnt sure what to do so I planted them all together in the same hole. There was about 8 inch or so of cane showing and I left them in situ, should I have cut them to the groud? Now the canes have started growing budes on the old canes. Should I leave them or should I cut them to the ground now as there is no new canes coming throught, as you can imagen I have got a clue.
Thanking you in advance
Gary
Cheers

[rustylady]

Tayberries are a sort of blackberry/raspberry cross. They fruit on canes produced the previous year. The buds you can see will probably produce leaves and a few flowers, maybe even some fruit but not much if they're only 8" tall. You should soon get strong shoots coming up from ground level - these will be the new canes for next year's fruit.

[Gary]

To cut or not to cut?

Hi Rustylady, thanks for your quick reply, yes I dont think I will get a bumper crop this year. Quick question, do you think I should have planted them separately? and do you think I should cut the Tayberries down to ground level, just conserned that I dont damage them.
Thanks again.
Gary

[Alison]

I'm not sure what's normal when you buy tayberries as I got one in a pot that had been rooted off one a member of my family already had. However, I planted it up and trained all the shoots on a series of wires to the right. The following year those shoots fruited and I cut them back. Meanwhile new shoots were trained to the left for fruiting the following year. There's some good advice about training on the Ken Muir site under the Ask Ken section but, unless they have already fruited then I'd not cut them down at all.

[southlondongardener]

How many root systems were there ? It sounds like you had 5 plants in that case uproot and plant again.

(I could be wrong).

When you get fruit cut that branch off and you will get new next year.

For me last year - in my first year - my tayberry was the most productive fruit.