Raspberries

[annie8]

I have some double cropping raspberries - sugana. Had them a couple of years. BecUse they are both early and autumn I struggled to know how to treat them in terms of cutting back. Anyway I get the old wood back a bit big not to the ground and new shoots came through. Thing is they have gone crazy this year- loads of new shoots and fruit growing. My question is whether I just leave them to grow more. They are getting really tall now and still getting more buds but none of the fruit is ripe yet and I wonder if the plants are putting too much energy into growing more.

[burnie]

Not a crop I have tried, where did you get them from, can you ask the supplier? I would not have thought it would be a good idea to prune whilst they are so vigorous in growth though.

[nickdub]

I have some double cropping raspberries - sugana. Had them a couple of years. BecUse they are both early and autumn I struggled to know how to treat them in terms of cutting back. Anyway I get the old wood back a bit big not to the ground and new shoots came through. Thing is they have gone crazy this year- loads of new shoots and fruit growing. My question is whether I just leave them to grow more. They are getting really tall now and still getting more buds but none of the fruit is ripe yet and I wonder if the plants are putting too much energy into growing more.

If they were mine I'd just make sure they get plenty of water and leave them to it. In later years you may decide to treat them a bit differently based on what you find out this time round.

[Jay-ell]

Next spring you may want to start thinning out the new canes so that you have a more manageable patch.

How tall is the new growth? If you prune out the tips they will create lateral branches which brings the height down to a manageable level (e.g. 4 foot) , increases the crop but delays the autumn crop. You could prune back some of the larger canes leaving the others unpruned.

[ESBkevin]

Liz Zorab at Byther farm recently did this experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy4pXxdmPHY

Worth 10 mins to watch.

[Jay-ell]

Here's one of the threads we had last year
https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ion_93122.html

[fishpond]

Liz Zorab at Byther farm recently did this experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy4pXxdmPHY

Worth 10 mins to watch.

Most interesting .

[annie8]

Will look thanks. The tallest is probably 6 foot. Don’t want to encourage thicker growth as they are already thick enough. Might be best to leave I guess to see what happens and adjust next year. I bought them from Marshall’s as bare roots.

[annie8]

Who knew growing raspberries was so complicated. Didn't make it easy for myself by getting double fruiting. Good news today i spotted two ripe raspberries so took them off and they were delicious so hopefully the rest will start turning soon. Bad news is i think the squirrels have discovered them too and don't think i'll manage to net them.

[veggiechicken]

To me Double fruiting is just a method of pruning and its easy to turn autumn raspberries into "double fruiters".
I have all sorts of raspberries, muddled up together, and I treat them all the same - cut out the dead wood and leave anything that's alive. This way, I'm picking raspberries from June to November.

[Jay-ell]

Same here. I have Joan J (autumn bearing) and Tulameen (Summer bearing).

The Tulameen send up canes in summer which fruit next summer, however they also seem to send up canes in spring which fruit in autumn.

The Joan J send up canes in spring which fruit in Autumn, but if left in will fruit the following summer lower down the canes.

Unfortunately at the moment it's hard to get in the beds because of all those canes - will try and sort that out this winter/spring and be more brutal with the cane thinning and removal.

[Nicos]

I have all sorts of raspberries, muddled up together, and I treat them all the same - cut out the dead wood and leave anything that's alive. This way, I'm picking raspberries from June to November.

Same here.
I must have at least 6 different varieties-various colours and shapes and flavour intensities, as well as summer and autumn varieties...total jumbled mix
Much easier just to chop out the dead stuff as and when.