New raspberry canes dying

[Srh.sloan]

Hi there,

I planted about 20 autumn bliss raspberry canes in march this year. I cut them down to about 20cm above ground and then just left them to carry on. Checked this week and one row look fine, whilet he ofher row have all died.

The leavea have shrivelled up and gone brown and the stems are all brown and dead lookig too. Ive attahed some pixtures- the roots look wet but ok but the stem looks maybe rotten to me. Could this just be that they got too wet? Weve moved to a new bulld and deainage isnt great. We put manure and geavel in when we planed but perhaps not the same in each trench which might account for the differences in the 2 rows. Or is this a disease that could soread to the other rows? Any advice please?

Thanks.

[Srh.sloan]

Photos

The upload facility won’t work on my phone but they are here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JJ...C-xC0ORsaJOZfa

[burnie]

If they were bare rooted, I am having a similar problem, only one of mine looks to be alive, I shall bite the bullet and buy container grown ones that I can see are alive in future.

[nickdub]

I'm guessing the dead ones succumbed to poor drainage in the very wet cold Spring we had, but its impossible to rule out disease from the photos - I'd bin the dead plants just to be on the safe side.

You might want to consider raising the soil level somehow, before replanting with something.

[Brack]

Last year I put in half a dozen bare root Joan j. All in a row in a raised bed, well manured. Only 2 survived. 18" the other side of the path half a dozen summer rasps (maybe glen ample, I don't remember, but they're thornless) in an identical bed, all survived. The raspberries came from ashridge in one order, were planted same day in the same conditions.
There was an extra Joan j in the order so I shoved in in the ground 100 yards away from the others, moist well drained but not too exposed (no manure). It didn't survive either.
The survivors are all thriving (multiple canes etc).

My conclusion is that some varieties don't establish so well as bare roots - I'm disappointed with the Joan j but I'll get enough canes to fill the bed from the survivors.

[Mistlepie]

This is useful to read, I put in 3 bare root polkas in, earlier this year and 1 has turned up its toes. It was doing well, had flowers coming, but turned yellow, brown, then dead. I put 2 spares in a container.

What time of year would I be best to move one of the survivors from the container into the bed? And should I rip out the dead one or see if it somehow comes back to life?

[Brack]

My thinking is that providing you take the whole thing, soil et Al out of the pot and plonk it in a pot shaped/sized hole, the plant won't know it's been transplanted and will just find its roots have more space and it doesn't get dry so quickly. So I'd just shift them, but without disturbing their roots.

As for the dead ones, I've left mine where they are and 18 months/2 years down the line they're still just dead brown sticks. I wouldn't hold out much hope.

[It never rains..it pours]

Hi there,

I planted about 20 autumn bliss raspberry canes in march this year. I cut them down to about 20cm above ground and then just left them to carry on. Checked this week and one row look fine, whilet he ofher row have all died.

The leavea have shrivelled up and gone brown and the stems are all brown and dead lookig too. Ive attahed some pixtures- the roots look wet but ok but the stem looks maybe rotten to me. Could this just be that they got too wet? Weve moved to a new bulld and deainage isnt great. We put manure and geavel in when we planed but perhaps not the same in each trench which might account for the differences in the 2 rows. Or is this a disease that could soread to the other rows? Any advice please?

Thanks.

Its a bit odd as it appears you had leaves coming, Ive never lost one from that point. The roots look pretty wet to me, maybe too wet, is it clay soil ? Autumn bliss is meant to have some resistance to root root so survives wet better than some others. As a new build the soil maybe be different or have something in it on one side

[cwmmawr]

That's strange I was going to ask the same question today

I have five canes which have done the same -new shoots around the cane sprout up grow nice green leaves to about eight inches tall then they wither and die .

I just cant work out what it is

[It never rains..it pours]

Could be they were infected with root rot when you brought them. When you dig one up see what color the roots are, white is healthy, orange indicates possibly root rot