Autumn raspberries

[Tadpole123]

I have been given some autumn fruiting raspberries that are about 2' tall with a good bit of root attached to each one.
Do I plant and cut down now or can I leave them to grow?
They have been out of the ground since 5pm today, had a car journey and now sitting in a bucket of water till I find somewhere to put them tomorrow.

I grow summer ones so not worried if I have to forgo fruit from them this year but it would be great to hear that I could just plant as is and fingers crossed for a crop

[binley100]

Well, I bought some to plant and they were like that so I've planted them and will cut them down next feb....

[Tadpole123]

that's great news, will pop them in as is then, thanks

[bearded bloke]

With Autumn fruiting varieties fruit occurs on current years growth,were there any young sprouts on the rootstock?

From the info supplied by Suttons with their fruit plants ..........
Immediately after planting,cut the canes down to 9".when new shoots have developed from the base of the plants,cut the canes at ground level ..../ / .. Recent research has shown that if a few canes are left on autumn fruiting raspberries a small extra early crop of summer fruit will be borne.This does not appear to significantly reduce the capacity of the canes to fruit again in the autumn.To take advantage of this leave some autumn canes uncut and wait for fruit in June then remove immediately leaving new canes to mature

[chris]

I'd leave them as well, as they'll be growing now anyway.

[pipkins]

This is good news I have a huge clump to move

[grenhouse]

Yup, leave them this year, just bang em in and then cut as normal next year. You will have loads more to dig up next year if they are anything like mine, a well planted row of ten canes has now appeared as a 5 foot wide row with tonnes of canes!

[Tadpole123]

Thanks for the replies.