Glencoe Raspberry Canes

[VirginVegGrower]

Can anyone tell me whether this is worth purchasing please? It is a purple raspberry and I am interested in both taste/yield.
Thanks in advance.

[zazen999]

I've got these in the garden - these grew in mine to 8 ft tall and had to be regularly chopped back. I took them out and moved them to the lottie 2 weeks ago.

They don't throw up suckers or you could have had some.

They are great - the first to ripen each year - not as big as some rasps but relatively prolific. If you manage them better than we did, you could prune them for a bigger yield - they seemed to start cropping the day the strawbs stopped - 2 years running...and went on for a fair few weeks. But then stopped as the lottie ones were just getting going. Taste lovely though.

[VirginVegGrower]

Ooh - fabbylous!
Did you get them locally? I've got all gold, glen ample, tulameen and fancied these for different taste and colour.

[zazen999]

One of the seed catalogues IIRC; I bought a job lot of 3 Glencoe canes; plus the offer of 6 of 3 other varieties - 2 summer and 1 autumn. So we get a long season of them - in fact I picked some summer fruiting rasps today. I still have about 1/4 of the freezer full of them. Winter fruit with cream though - lovely.

[VirginVegGrower]

I'll get searching then! My Autumn fruiting canes are non fruiting this year...? But Summer ones I had a good yield. New canes in your favourite nursery...

[realfood]

Yes, I have a plant as well. They are clump forming, no suckers so far. Rather than cutting the canes back, I bent them over along a wire and this encourages them to fruit all along the length of the cane. Smaller fruit, but sweeter than normal when they are properly ripe.

[VirginVegGrower]

Thanks Realfood. I can't find one yet - want one locally if I can find one.