Raspberry plants and offshoots.

marmiterulesok

I'm looking for some advice please.

I have some raspberry plants that are doing well.On the biggest one,I have quite a few growths that are just like offshoots on tomato plants.These 'offshoots' have raspberries growing on them.
Do I leave them or take them off?

Thanks.

wallbash

I only grow Autumn Bliss.
After cutting back in January and mulching, I don't do anything but pick the fruit.

These 'offshoots' have raspberries growing on them.

So you have a summer crop, growing on last years canes?

marmiterulesok

I live in Switzerland,so I think that my plants might be further on than those in Britain,being further south.
I bought three different kinds,one of them being Autumn Bliss.I only bought them this year.
The Autumn Bliss is the one with the offshoots and is also the largest (almost twice as large as the other two).
I'm growing them on my balcony,in pots.

So,in other words,leave well alone?

DaftyDuck

Probably leave well alone now. Simplisticly, for autumn varieties, cut back all shoots that had fruit on right to the ground in Feb. For earlier summer varieties cut back straight after fruiting. In both cases, prune back each plant to 3 to 6 of the new shoots, and no more. 3 gives less fruit but bigger berries, 6 more smaller fruit.

There's more to it than that, but that's the basic idea. It'll be about the same for you, but you may want to cut autumn variety straight after fruiting...

Do you know what variety yours are?

marmiterulesok

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Probably leave well alone now. Simplisticly, for autumn varieties, cut back all shoots that had fruit on right to the ground in Feb. For earlier summer varieties cut back straight after fruiting. In both cases, prune back each plant to 3 to 6 of the new shoots, and no more. 3 gives less fruit but bigger berries, 6 more smaller fruit.

There's more to it than that, but that's the basic idea. It'll be about the same for you, but you may want to cut autumn variety straight after fruiting...

Do you know what variety yours are?

Thanks.It's really still an experiment to see how they'll do on my east facing balcony.A lot of direct sun is blocked by the building next to mine.They get some direct sunlight-a few hours.
They're in pots obviously and I bought them as young plants this year.

The varieties are Autumn Bliss (which is doing the best of the three of them)
Rubus idaeus (malling promise?)
and Rubus idaeus (schoenemann?).

Thanks.