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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:53:29 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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~"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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~ Sorry Jane I am a raspberry novice they were summer fruiting and yes I
did
~ cut them all down, I thought thats what you did oops i'm wrong, any
help
~ appreciated
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~Cut out (or thin) old fruited canes and leave new canes to fruit the
~following season.
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If it helps, the new canes are usually much greener stemmed. I find
that once you're ferreting about in the patch trying to work out which
branch is from fruited and which from new when they're all tangled up
is a bit of a mare. So I go by the green stems!

I used to tie a piece of coloured wool to the stems while they still had
fruit on them.

[snip]

[Franz Heymann]