Tayberry bush

[uulwyn]

Hi all,

I have a blackberry Tayberry plant potted in a 60cm pot. The plant came with 3 stalks 2 of which are being trained up an archway and the centre one also being trained up, however what i am finding is that each stalk is producing side shoots which have nowhere to go apart from outwards, am i ok to prune these off, or am i risking less fruit for next year?

The plant itself is really growing like wildfire, so it must like its new home in the pot, but the question is, I take it it doesnt produce canes like a raspberry, and when do i prune it.

Thanks

[Flummery]

Prune the canes that have fruited this year. If it's new, none of them will have. Next year the ones you have trained up and over will have to come out and then you start again with the new ones. Mine don't usually throw many side shoots though. Not sure what to advise on this.

[OllieMartin]

Did you pot it in anything in particular? My Tayberry isn't doing much.

[Alison]

A tayberry is a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry (I think!) but grows like the blackberry part of it's parent and should be treated as such.

[uulwyn]

My Tayberry is in a 60cm pot with an eracious soil(same as Rhodadendrum needs). I have an arch nailed to the wall and the pot stands next to it with 2 out of the 3 branches training up it either side of the arch.

From what i understand is once the branches have trained and fruited for the year, i just cut it back to soil height and then move the branches that havent fruited into there positions(ready for the year after), but that leaves me a problem with what i should do with the side shoots in the mean time, as these could be the shoots that dont fruit and can be used the year after. I may be over worrying about them, but the way this plant is growing i could have many branches all over the place which i dont wont, but i dont want to cut them off either.

I think what i will have to do is train them along a wall next to the archway, until i know what is happening with them, you never know they may fruit also!

eeek can anybody help?