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Posted by mary (U2401572) on Saturday, 22nd May 2010
Last year I planted 3 raspberry canes and had a fair few raspberries. This year the original canes have now got lots of flowers and some berries forming already and quite a few new canes have sprung up around them. There's one right next to each old cane, and about 3 or 4 near by. Should I just leave them, or cut some back, or could I dig up the new ones and move them? I've got them along the shed, which is not that big, so space is limited.
The old canes should be cut out each spring. The new shoots will provide the fruit. Canes usually send out side shoots well away from the mother plant. These can be taken off in autumn and planted out.
Willy.
Will the new shoots have flowers and berries on this year then?
Mary,
Keep the old canes now that have fruit setting on them, because there is nothing wrong with letting them fruit now. However cut them down to the ground - late autumn is just as good as early spring.
Your raspberry may well be an autumn fruiting type in which case the new canes will have fruit on them and as above cut down late autumn to early spring. If they don't fruit then these canes will be the new canes to keep for next years fruit.
I know this is slightly against what can be read in books, but this way at least you will be assured of fruit this year!
(after all there is no fairy that comes along and prunes the raspberries in the wild and they manage to fruit ok)
Brilliant thanks, I'll put it in my diary (about oct?) so I remember. x
Do you know which variety they are. Summer or autumn fruiting as each need different pruning. If you do not know wait and see when they fruit then you will know what time of the year to prune the fruiting canes and which ones to not prune.
yes LPM, that's why I said to leave present canes.
I omitted to say that if the new shoots don't have fruit on them this year, then they are summer fruiting raspberries.
But actually to me the pruning remains the same : you prune out the canes that have fruited that year. It's just that the new canes growing up need to be left a year to fruit on summer fruiting
raspberries but will fruit in the same year on the autumn fruiting raspberries. Surely?
It makes no difference what canes they are, when they have fruited they need to be cut out.Any growth on old canes can only sap the strength of the new ones.
Willy
a little extra fertilizer this year and they'll be right.
Really raspberries aren't that fussy, they'll bear fruit on the old ones and produce good canes this year for Mary. Granted, it's not the way to go long term, but to cut down the canes now and possibly miss out on fruit....well I wouldn't do it.
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