Loganberry cuttings

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• BobFlannigon Posts: 619

  August 2019

  You can 'layer' Loganberries to propagate them, on the new growth.

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• Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

  August 2019

  Thank you @BobFlannigon I couldn't remember if we used the old or new wood, in so much as the old (this years fruiting canes) are far longer than the new shoots.
  

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• BobFlannigon Posts: 619

  August 2019

  Presumably with a mind to get an advantage by propagating a longer stem?  I think they grow fast enough that it won't really make a difference and if you already have established plants you shouldn't lose any fruit if these cuttings don't yield anything next year.

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• Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713

  August 2019

  One or two of the older more established loganberry plants (2nd year) have died which we can only put down to being planted too close to the wall (just a couple of inches from the wall, as we train the plants to the wires we have set up on the walls) and possibly dried out, although we do try to water them once a week.  So we want to replace the dead plants with shoots from the established, healthy plants rather than buying new plant and they can be potted up over the winter and planted out next Spring @BobFlannigon In the past the shoots root very easily, but at present the new shoots don't seem long enough to root into the ground - we can watch and hope that the new shoots carry on growing, ready to use in a month or two's time.  We have already potted up some strawberry runners which are doing very well.This is the wall with the loganberries being trained up it late last year. Very little fruit but plenty of plant growth.  We did have a good crop of fruit this year, which has just finished.
  

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