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Old 20-04-2021, 05:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Wild Rasberries

On 2021-04-20, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
On 17/04/2021 19:21, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
All are just 'a wipe with a hedgetrimmer in autumn' and then they come
back the next year.


Cultivated raspberries come in "summer" (floricane) and "autumn"
(primocane) varieties. I don't know off hand what the situation is in
the ancestral wild raspberry,


I believe, the European wild raspberry is floricane. I have so far not
come across found "wild" autumn (primocane) raspberries - though garden
escapes should be around.

but as some of the plants found in the
wild are escapes from cultivation there's be a definite chance of
acquiring a floricane form. Cutting those back in the autumn doesn't work.


The usual advice for raspberry pruning, is to cut back the cane after it
has fruited. This works for summer or autumn fruiting types.

(I've found that if you don't cut back primocane raspberries you get a
smaller crop in summer as well as the main autumn crop. My usual
practice is to cut out the dead growth about now, when you can see where
the new growth is.)


Like you I also leave a few autumn fruiting canes (the ones that were
"late" and only fruited right at the top of the cane), to fruit in early
summer. I find that they are often a week or so early than the earliest
summer raspberries.