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Raspberry Tulameen

adamadamantadamadamant Posts: 278
in Fruit & veg
Hi I planted this for the first time last year and cut it back in the autumn.  Have I made a mistake?  it is described as a late summer fruiter, so should I have left the branches on for this year's fruit?

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    If you cut it down to the ground, yes, you've cut off the shoots which would produce fruit this year, I'm afraid.  It's a late summer fruiter, not an autumn one; it's the autumn fruiting raspberries which produce their fruit on the current year's growth.  You cut those down to the ground in winter and they spring up, flower and fruit the next year.  Tulameen needs a year to grow before producing fruit, so you only prune out shoots which have borne fruit that year, not the new shoots which haven't had any on yet.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Tulameen is a summer fruiter, fruiting on canes formed last year.  You cut off this years fruit.  Leave the new ones frowing this year, they will fruit next year, then you cut the fruited canes out after you pick the fruit, leaving the new canes to fruit the following year.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    There's advice for that specific variety on the main site:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • adamadamantadamadamant Posts: 278
    Blast.  Thank you!

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    No worries - I don't think many on the forum do browse the rest of the site much - I know I don't. :)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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