I am enjoying a wonderfull late crop of raspberries - on next sumers canes!

I sometimes have had a few fruits, but this year I have loads. Normally
I cut off the tops of the canes in the winter as part of tying them in,
which removes any fruiting spurs.

This year as I have so many fruiting I am wondering whther I should just
leave them on the canes after the frost has had them, or shorten or cut
out these spurs?

Any advice please?

Roger T

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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:42:47 GMT, RogerT
wrote:

I am enjoying a wonderfull late crop of raspberries - on next sumers canes!

I sometimes have had a few fruits, but this year I have loads. Normally
I cut off the tops of the canes in the winter as part of tying them in,
which removes any fruiting spurs.

This year as I have so many fruiting I am wondering whther I should just
leave them on the canes after the frost has had them, or shorten or cut
out these spurs?

Any advice please?

Roger T

Roger, I don't think it is next year's canes which are fruiting. There
are two ways of treating raspberries. For Summer ones, you cut out
canes which have fruited and leave the new canes for the next year.
For Autumn raspberries you cut all the canes down in Winter and the
canes which grow in Spring will fruit the following Summer.
Are yours established plants?
Do you know what variety they are?
I treat all mine as Autumn ones, and still have quite a few fruits on
my plants now, though they are late having been moved last year.
If I were you I would cut these canes down again in winter and look
for another good crop next Autumn.
If you do have any canes which have not fruited, you could leave them
uncut and get a crop in the summer.
Good luck

Pam in Bristol

Pam Moore wrote:
I treat all mine as Autumn ones, and still have quite a few fruits on
my plants now, though they are late having been moved last year.
If I were you I would cut these canes down again in winter and look
for another good crop next Autumn.

How far down do you cut them in winter? I've inheritted a large patch
of well established raspberries, and they cropped a lot worse this year
than last - lots of fruit but all very small. I think it's mostly to do
with lack of water during the growing season, as they did seem to get
better fruit after a rainfall, but I also didn't prune very hard last
year, mostly just stragglers, as I wasn't sure if they were strictly
autumn or summer croppers. Given they've only just stopped cropping
now, I'm going to go with autumn ...

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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:42:47 GMT, RogerT
wrote:

I am enjoying a wonderfull late crop of raspberries - on next sumers canes!

I sometimes have had a few fruits, but this year I have loads. Normally
I cut off the tops of the canes in the winter as part of tying them in,
which removes any fruiting spurs.

This year as I have so many fruiting I am wondering whther I should just
leave them on the canes after the frost has had them, or shorten or cut
out these spurs?

Any advice please?

Roger T

Roger, I don't think it is next year's canes which are fruiting. There
are two ways of treating raspberries. For Summer ones, you cut out
canes which have fruited and leave the new canes for the next year.
For Autumn raspberries you cut all the canes down in Winter and the
canes which grow in Spring will fruit the following Summer.
Are yours established plants?
Do you know what variety they are?
I treat all mine as Autumn ones, and still have quite a few fruits on
my plants now, though they are late having been moved last year.
If I were you I would cut these canes down again in winter and look
for another good crop next Autumn.
If you do have any canes which have not fruited, you could leave them
uncut and get a crop in the summer.
Good luck

Pam in Bristol

They are next years cane, this years fruiting canes were pruned out in
laate September.

I still have the autumn fruiting canes producing fruit, although not as
much as the "summer" canes. I cut the autumn fruiting canes down in
February usually.

Roger T