Autumn raspberries

kitcat80

I bought a mixed pack of raspberry canes earlier this year and intially thought that none of them had grown. One now appears to have done and it started fruiting about two weeks ago and is producing lovely berries now. I'm guessing therefore that it's an autumn cane although no idea what it is . I had thought that the cold would stop it, but am guessing that autumn ones are designed for that (hence the name...!). I'm very excited about this so have ordered a few more to have in future years, but just wondered how late into the season they tend to crop? Thanks

TallGirl

I got my Autumn Fruting ones in the Soring and they grew really nicely. However lots of canes and no fruit so total opporsite problem to yours but still Autumn ones. I know you have to cut them down when they have fruited so I would just enjoy them and when they are done cut them down. As for my own not sure when to cut them might leave them in case anything happens.

Badrick

TallGirl wrote: »

I got my Autumn Fruting ones in the Soring and they grew really nicely. However lots of canes and no fruit so total opporsite problem to yours but still Autumn ones.As for my own not sure when to cut them might leave them in case anything happens.

I've got same problem, 8 foot long canes and not a flower in sight.
But I've read you can double crop, where you keep the canes into next spring and get a second crop (or in my case, first crop) hopefully in May.
So that's what I'm going for.

Lavendyr

Autumn fruiting raspberries should be all cut to the ground in late winter (February time) - not just those that have fruited but all canes, as new canes will then grow for fruiting later in the year.

We have Autumn Bliss and Polka in our garden and they have just about finished fruiting nowish (in the south - north might be a bit later).

Hope that helps

floss2

Mine are still fruiting merrily in Blackpool.....

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Ours are still fruiting (mid October) but I think it depends on where you are in the country / how sunny and sheltered your garden is. We're in Yorkshire.

It certainly took ours a couple of years to really establish (i.e. get their roots down deep) and start producing a good crop. We got very little in the first year.

We were told by a very experienced gardener never to water them (after the initial planting) as this only encourages surface rooting. Also, as someone-else has already said, they need to be cut down to the ground in the late winter - we did this from the very first winter after planting them and it really worked.

Enjoy!

kitcat80

Thanks for the suggestion about watering. We haven't watered the cane this year (not been much need!) but useful for the future.

We've had about 15-20 fruits off the single cane which I'm really pleased with - especially as it's the first year. Just don't know what variety it is to recommend to others - don't suppose there's an easy way of telling?

RAS

They will keep fruiting until after the first frost.

The first damages the anthers and pistil on the flowers (you will note they blacken), rendering them unable to fertilise. The fruit already formed will still grow and ripen as long as it does not get too wet or do another November 2010.

westcoastscot

Mine are still fruiting here in Scotland - not many but enough for two every couple of days. I left mine last year and they fruited heavily this spring - much better than my summer ones. I've just cut those away so I can see which are this years, and am going to leave them again and see if I can get a repeat performance.
Right - off to find a thread about winter veg!!!