We bought some raspberries from Gurney's and got them last month, put them
in big pots in the 'green' room(an add-on to the house with lots of
windows), since it was still winter weather. And now the weather is spring
finally, and yesterday I planted 2 raspberries outside as 'guinea pigs'(to
give them a couple days and see if they could handle the transplant, so I'd
know if it was safe to plant the others), and there was a green growth off
one of the roots, and I'm wondering if it's a runner, or what my mother
calls a 'sucker'(which I presume means a parasitical plant sucking energy
from the host plant). The other raspberries have like 2 each of the green
growths coming up out of the soil next to them. I have more experience with
blackberries, but I would have thought it would take time for the
raspberries to start 'reproducing'. They have what I think are going to be
blossoms as well. They were shipped as bareroot., and maybe at best a foot
in length. Do we have new raspberry plants/bushes already starting, or are
they something I should get rid off? Because we do want the raspberries to
proliferate(they're for along the fence and fresh berries make a nice
addition to a lot of things).