Raspberries - will they fruit?

Muppet81

In the Spring I bought 5 new raspberry canes and planted them in a border.

One did well from the start and the others finally started to show some growth and now look nice and healthy.

Today I looked for fruit and the one which started well is full of fruit but the others have none.

Looking at them properly I notice that these all look to be side shoots/suckers which have grown off the main stem - the main stem looking dead as a dodo.

Are raspberries like roses? Should these shoots have been removed? Will they ever fruit? Was so looking forward to raspberries on my cereal in the mornings.

Any advice would be appreciated as I am a raspberry novice.

Gebo26

It depends whether they are summer fruiting or autumn fruiting varieties.

Summer fruiting ones flower and produce a crop on last year's wood and therefore the growth made this year will carry next year's fruit. The canes which have borne fruit should be cut right down and the new growth allowed to flourish.

Autumn fruiting raspberries produce fruit on the current year's growth, and should be cut right down to the ground in winter.

If you still have the labels they should tell you which type they are and, hopefully, the varieties.

Muppet81

I know they were classed as early fruiting so I assume they are summer. I think they were Glen something.

Thanks for your advice :T

Big_Bird_4

Gebo is spot on. And if they're Glen something then they are summer fruiters. The canes that don't give you any fruit this year will give you masses next.