Summer fruiting Rapberries

[maverick451]

Hi

I plan on buying some summer fruiting raspberry canes, am I right in thinking ill get no fruit this year?

Thanks

[Aberdeenplotter]

If you buy long cane plants you will get some fruit this year.

[Greenleaves]

Long cane AP?

[maverick451]

Ive never seen these, do you know where to get them?

[Aberdeenplotter]

Yups long cane. Gardener's World article on them here
How to plant long-cane raspberries | gardenersworld.com

Thomson and Morgan do them
Long Cane Raspberryne-raspberries at Thompson-Morgan.

[WendyC]

Marshall's have Tulameen as a long cane:
Buy Raspberry Canes | Marshalls Seeds

I expect others do too.

[maverick451]

Thanks

Ive ordered 6 long cane Malling Jewel - early and 6 long cane Tulameen from ebay �23.00 delivered

[Kristen]

I think better to cut them down / remove fruit to encourage root growth, for benefit in future years, rather than to try to take a crop from them in First year.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Kristen, they are sold long specifically to generate a crop in the first year. No point in buying them long if they are to be cut short.

I personally wouldn't buy them long and I agree that stronger plants are best obtained by pruning after planting

[Kristen]

Kristen, they are sold long specifically to generate a crop in the first year. No point in buying them long if they are to be cut short.

Yup, I agree, should have made myself clearer - IMO no point buying "long canes" for a first-season harvest as I think it will be at the expense of the longer term establishment of the plant. I am sceptical, given the transplanting shock to the plant, that there would be much harvest in the first year anyway.

[Scarlet]

I've been considering taking out my Summer fruiting variety and replacing with Autumn fruiting canes. I left half my Autumn canes alone last feb and got a fab crop and the same again in Sept. Summer fruiting berries seem small in comparison. On top of that the Summer fruiting variety need a support system and mine has gone rotten in the ground. They need replacing.

[Bren In Pots]

Scarlett I put in Autumn Bliss (from Freecycle) around this time last year I got a good crop so after reading about not cutting down all the canes I'm giving that a go to get an earlier crop.

[Scarlet]

I cut half to the ground on each "clump"in feb last year. The berries were twice the size as the summer fruiting ones. Well worth a try.

[DiggerSean]

I think Aldi were doing a 3 pack of long cane raspberries at the same time as they were selling their fruit trees (�3.99). Not sure what variety they were though.

[stevejohnson53]

The variety Aldi were / are doing is Tulameen

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