Raspberry canes

Money_maker

I think folks are referring to popping the roots in a bucket of water for an hour or two so they can take up water before planting.
Did you get the special offer canes from t&m? These are autumn fruiting and can go in the ground or a large pot as they dont need a wire support.

Summer fruiting canes bought this year tend to fruit on last years growth. Therefore the shoots you get from the bottom this year will not fruit until next. These need to be tied in to a wire support or suchlike. Growth on the actual cane might produce some fruit but it will only be a small crop if any. Autumn fruiting canes should fruit on this years growth. This can be cut back to ground level early next year.

HTH

elliep_2

MoneyMaker. Does the autumn bliss variety fit into your description of autumn fruiting? I was expecting mine (from the garden centre a few weeks ago) to need wire and not to fruit until next year but I'll be really pleased if they will fruit this year.

Lotus-eater

Autumn Bliss is an autumn fruiting raspberry, the name sort of gives it away

elliep_2

Well I know it's autumn fruiting, I was just trying to check if it behaves the same as moneymaker was describing. I'll assume from your response that it does.

Does that mean I should treat it differently than a summer fruiting one e.g. prune all the way back at the end of the year, not keeping this years growth?

Lotus-eater

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/796.shtml

BeenieCat

Money_maker wrote: »

I think folks are referring to popping the roots in a bucket of water for an hour or two so they can take up water before planting.
Did you get the special offer canes from t&m? These are autumn fruiting and can go in the ground or a large pot as they dont need a wire support.

Summer fruiting canes bought this year tend to fruit on last years growth. Therefore the shoots you get from the bottom this year will not fruit until next. These need to be tied in to a wire support or suchlike. Growth on the actual cane might produce some fruit but it will only be a small crop if any. Autumn fruiting canes should fruit on this years growth. This can be cut back to ground level early next year.

HTH

Hi money maker, yes they're from t&m, thanks for the reply, i'll plant them this morning :T

elliep_2

Thanks Lotus eater, That looks like a really useful website, I'll add that to my bookmarked pages!

Primrose

I'm also the proud owner of 5 bare sticks of Autumn Bliss canes which I planted in February - a couple of days before the snowstorm. Only one cane is yet showing any signs of life and that is by pushing up new shoots from the base rather than any buds on the canes. I'm told that the canes of the Autumn Bliss variety don't need any tying up to wires and that they need to be cut down to the ground after fruiting, so should be fairly simple to maintain, with no worrying about which canes have fruited and need to be pruned or cut out. I will wait with anticipation to see what happens as the season progresses.

Colin2511

I'm glad its not just me....the kids thought i was mad mulcing some "dead twigs" yesterday...so at least feel at home on here

Colin2511

mulcing = mulching (kids distracted me before I checked the spelling)