"Bertie Doe" wrote in message
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I popped into one of those warehouse DIY places yesterday, for some
plumbing bits. I had a nose in the gardening section and spotted about
100 raspberry "plants". Each plant (£6) consisted of a soft poly pot
(about 3 litres of soil) with EXACTLY 10 stems on each plant. Each
stem approx 200mm.

Question : Is this one plant or 10 canes? If it's 10 canes then this
is good value at 60p per cane. If it's a plant, then it's expensive. I
couldn't detect any movement from the stems, which might suggest its a
single plant - unless the stems/canes were cut last year, popped into
a poly pot of soil, canes rooted to form a plant. In which case, they
can be untangled.

I'd bet safe money that they would be 10 rooted canes. The cost and your
description says so.
Also, its fairly standard practice to sell raspberry plants in GCs in
bunches of say, 5 or 10 canes.
Last year I bought a total of 30 canes from 4 different garden centres
and nurseries and they all retailed bunches tied this way.

pp.