Buying summer fruiting rasps

[lookbettertomorow]

As far as I know, summer fruiting rasps fruit on canes grown the previous year. With this in mind does anyone know where you can buy with a decent length of last years cane not pruned? All the ones I see have been pruned to about 8inches tall and I assume these won't fruit until the year after planting.

Has anyone bought some and had fruit same year? Summer, not Autumn fruiting.

I know autumn fruiting are the other way round and fruit on canes produced in the same year.

Thank you.

[spamvindaloo]

Look for 'long cane' raspberries. I think aldi had some in last year so might get them in again.

[Jay22]

Yes, I had some Glen Ample canes last year, was told they wouldn't fruit until this year but I got quite a few raspberries which were delicious. If I remember the canes were less than a foot when I planted them.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I just did a quick goooogle and see that Suttons have long cane Glen Ample. Non spiny and super berries

Raspberry Plants - Long Cane Glen Ample - Suttons Seeds and Plants

[lookbettertomorow]

Thanks for your interesting replies. My local GC, claims to be biggest in UK, has loads of rasps but none of the labels say if they are summer or autumn fruiting which I think is bad. Named varieties so if you knew before hand not a problem. Still bad though. Pound Stretcher's are all clearly labelled as late season.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Yes but what season??

[WendyC]

If you know the name of the variety it's not too difficult to look up whether it is summer of autumn fruiting, but I do agree adding a couple of words shouldn't be too difficult for the supplier. Or else ask the staff.

[KevinM67]

Yes, I had some Glen Ample canes last year, was told they wouldn't fruit until this year but I got quite a few raspberries which were delicious. If I remember the canes were less than a foot when I planted them.

Yep, I can back this up - Glen Ample did it for me also.

[Kirk]

You may need to go find a fruit nursery and get some from them direct. Part of the problem I would suspect is what are "long cane" ?

I have raspberries that can happily get to 8ft canes, if they get cut back to 3ft then they have had most of the fruiting bit chopped off, but will still look "long".

May appear obvious but are you prepared for the additional attention and work that the summer ones need over the autumn ones?

[WendyC]

Why do you consider summer fruiting raspberries more labour intensive than autumn ones?

[lookbettertomorow]

I was wondering that Wendy, either needs only pruning once, both need tying up. Perhaps he means with autumn fruiting you simply chop the lot down in one go no faffing about.

I enjoy faffing about :-)

[TrialAndError]

As far as work goes, autumn fruiting raspberries, generally don't need any support, certainly I never support mine. In general, summer fruiting raspberries do need support. That's where the extra work comes in.

Plant autumn raspberries, retire back a safe distance and watch them grow. Buy summer fruiting raspberries and you need to erect supports and tie them in.

[lookbettertomorow]

Just doesn't seem right picking Rasps in October, looking forward to Apples then :-)