Raspberry Canes....When do I see some growth?

[tumbling tom]

After considering it the last couple of years this March I went ahead and bought some raspberry canes, they are all autumn fruiting.

Now they have been in the ground now for about 7/8 weeks but they still look like twigs. Is this right or are they just dead?

Never grown them before so dont know what to expect

[veggiechicken]

They'll shoot from the base of the "stick", from underground.The "stick" is the remains of last year's fruiting cane.
Be patient

[rustylady]

After considering it the last couple of years this March I went ahead and bought some raspberry canes, they are all autumn fruiting.

Now they have been in the ground now for about 7/8 weeks but they still look like twigs. Is this right or are they just dead?

Never grown them before so dont know what to expect

It's more than 7 weeks since March, unless it was the very end of March when you bought them.

Can I ask where you got them from, and did you plant them as soon as you got them?

[tumbling tom]

It was the real back end of March, if not the start if April.

I got most if them from a garden centre and there were five in each pot in a bit of earth and bought some from Willis just see the difference.

I put them in within a few days of buying them.

[leonmc0708]

I picked some up from Tesco.

4 X Raspberry Ploka, 4 X Raspberry (0ther name I forget), 4 X Bluebery and 2 X Blackberry.

To date I have them in pots only and have seen the following:

2 X Polka, 1 other Raspberry, 3 Blueberry and 2 Blackberry have shown signs of growth - the rest look like twigs in pots

bought March

[mothhawk]

Don't give up on them. I bought some last year, they were delivered at the end of March, and I saw nothing until May - this is what I put in the diary on 19th May:
"One raspberry is sprouting well, one is budding, and one looks dead."

By the start of July the "dead" one had finally produced a shoot. this year they are all going great guns and are 2 ft tall already. "Nil desperandum"!

eta mine are Joan J - autumn fruiting.