Autumn raspberry troubleshooting...Help please!

Dormouse1940

Hello all, hoping some of you wise folks can help me...


Planted some Autumn raspberry canes last year and they seem to be growing well.


BUT the leaves are a really unusual colour and extensive googling hasn't thrown anything helpful my way.


The leaves are deeply ridged (almost a bit like crinkle cut crisps) and are a reddish bronze colour. Everything I've seen suggests Raspberry leaves should be wide and flat and most definitely green...


I'm stumped. Any ideas anyone?

wallbash

Interesting post. I grow the standard Autumn Bliss.
I put the subject Autumn raspberry in the image section of Google.
And yes some varieties have ' bit like crinkle cut crisps' nice description but ALL are green .

What to do ?? ......nothing , see what happens, if you have a failure , start again with new stock.

But do keep trying, raspberries are so much nicer than strawberries.

DaftyDuck

Could be a viral infection, common if they are grown too densely. Try a Google Image search for raspberry virus, see if that shows the same signs. Thinning them out may help. It has been a very damp, virus - prone year so far.

wallbash

common if they are grown too densely.

Only planted last year AND its too early for so much growth to call it dense.

Have I just been lucky so far, here in the SE weather has been perfect for the raspberries. Growth is good and looking VERY healthy.

Scottish_Mike

Have you been feeding the raspberries anything Dormouse? I had similar sounding raspberry leaves a few months ago, couldn't find any info out online, so just threw down a handful of chicken manure pellets, watered it, and hoped for the best. Surprisingly, it did seem to do the job, and the leaves have returned to their normal colour. Since then I've been watering it every few weeks too.

wallbash

So you are suggesting a deficiency ( corrected by the chicken manure pellets ) ?

Could the OP tell us what was growing in the plot before the Raspberries and was it successful.

Dormouse1940

Thanks for all the responses!


I think the variety is Autumn Treasure. And no, I haven't fed them at all :embarasse I think that will be first task for the weekend... Any suggestions on what to feed them?


We took over an allotment which previously was apparently used solely for potatoes. But we've knocked together some raised beds, so they were planted a bit above that level...


There are berries forming already (bit sooner than I was expecting for an Autumn variety, but I'm new at this so maybe that's normal....)


Cheers all!

DaftyDuck

Ah, did you cut them hard back at the beginning of the year - right down to the ground? Is the new growth coming on the old stems?

Farway

Dormouse1940 wrote: »

There are berries forming already (bit sooner than I was expecting for an Autumn variety, but I'm new at this so maybe that's normal....)

Cheers all!

Not normal, mine are not yet in flower, and I am in South Hampshire

wallbash

Mine are only a couple of feet high, and thats what I expect here in the S.E.

And no, I haven't fed them at all

Mine has a thick mulch, very early in the year, straight after chopping everything back to ground level.

Dormouse1940

Re: berries

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Ah, did you cut them hard back at the beginning of the year - right down to the ground? Is the new growth coming on the old stems?

:doh::doh:Oh. That explains it! I think I thought that because they were new plants and we planted them quite late in the year that I should let them get established...


As you can see, I am doing SPECTACULARLY well at this. Feeling pretty special right now :embarasse...oh well... live and learn, will try again PROPERLY next year...