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About 5 years ago I took advice from here on two raspberry varieties - one for main crop and one for autumn fruiting.
It's the main crop ones I have a difficulty with. Firstly I cannot remember the variety - coming originally from Canada is all I remember !!
Now to the main problem - I planted 6 or 8 roots from Dobbies, and have been suspicious all along that 4 were one variety and 4 have turned out being another. One end of the row the plants are as I would expect a main crop variety to be - at pruning time (alright I know - now!!) there are clearly dead old canes that I can cut out, and the canes are nearly thornless. But the other end of the row there is now a clear cut difference - what are definitely last year's canes are now sprouting buds, and the canes are clearly much more thorny and seem to be more vigorous.
There enough runners of each type for me to dig one type out and replace, but does any one have any ideas which type is the desired Canadian one. The fruiting performance isn't that different from memory, and the main driver for resolving this is the pruning one as I really don't know how to prune the 'thorny' end !
Rob
It's the main crop ones I have a difficulty with. Firstly I cannot remember the variety - coming originally from Canada is all I remember !!
Now to the main problem - I planted 6 or 8 roots from Dobbies, and have been suspicious all along that 4 were one variety and 4 have turned out being another. One end of the row the plants are as I would expect a main crop variety to be - at pruning time (alright I know - now!!) there are clearly dead old canes that I can cut out, and the canes are nearly thornless. But the other end of the row there is now a clear cut difference - what are definitely last year's canes are now sprouting buds, and the canes are clearly much more thorny and seem to be more vigorous.
There enough runners of each type for me to dig one type out and replace, but does any one have any ideas which type is the desired Canadian one. The fruiting performance isn't that different from memory, and the main driver for resolving this is the pruning one as I really don't know how to prune the 'thorny' end !
Rob
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