Raspberry canes

radiohelen

OK so I bought some bareroot raspberry canes in a pack with some other stuff from our local Wyevale last autumn. I planted them and I am now the proud owner of five sticks in the dirt.........should they be doing something by now? The blackcurrant and gooseberry plants that came with it are going great guns...the raspberrys just look at me forlornly everytime I go up to check on them :huh:

How are your canes at the minute? Does anyone have foliage and stuff... I'm in the midlands so it's not really warm here yet but everything else seems to have got the message that Spring is actually here!

Lotus-eater

My existing raspberry are starting to shoot nicely, my new canes are pretty much like yours most of them. Patience.

tanith

Mine too are sprouting beautifully but are established 2yrs.. maybe the new ones need time to put down a good root system before they put any energy into leaves and stuff... good luck

maxdp

Hi Bought come from local garden centre about 6 weeks ago. Soak them for couple of days and dug them in now have shoots on 2 of the 3.

Rummer

I would wait and see how they go I planted 6 last year and four of them produced raspberries and two didn't but this year they have all started to shoot. Maybe they are just taking their time.

linni

My rasperry canes look like they are dead too! Everything else is in the garden is sprouting like mad..

harib0uk

mine are half and half... how deep did you plant them?

I had temporarily planted mine in a pot, and noticed when I planted them properly that they had shoots of new growth, but now planted in the ground they have taken quite some time for the new shoots to come up.. some i'm still waiting on.

Some have new shoots off the old wood, and others the old wood is just that old wood... nothing happening.

This is what mine looked like when first planted in the ground:



A month on some are doing well and others are still looking as above!
I'm away at the moment but I'll post some pictures when i get back to show how they have come on over the last 4/5 weeks

greenfingeredsteve

wait mine took a year to grow now theres no stoppping them

radiohelen

Thanks folks...:A....OK patience it is then......I planted them as deep as they had been planted before...they had a good soaking before they went in and a good forkful of my nice compost.....I think I did everything right! I'll just have to put on my zen face and hope for the best.

Farway

Thye may well be making loads of roots under ground and will send up fresh shoots from the surface, mine have only just started appearing in the last week or so

As others say, patience

BeenieCat

Hi sorry to hijack your thread but i had 3 canes delivered the other day and have not yet done anything with them(!), but i am going to plant them in a container in the morning.

What exactly do you mean when you say you soaked them before planting?

Do they need a lot of ground space or can they stay in containers?