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Help with raspberries canes

MenaintheGardenMenaintheGarden Posts: 31
in Fruit & veg
I was wondering if I can get some help. I’ve planted 2 raspberry canes in this pot. One is summer the other is autumn fruiting I’ve got them both in Lidl’s. (Autumn bliss and Tullem) 

https://ibb.co/rmHtLny

My concern is should I be pruning them or something? Part of me thinks I should just get a dwarf variety because it might be easier to manage? 

Thanks everyone. 

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Pruning for one is opposite to the other. They would be better in separate pots, even better in the ground.  The autumn fruiting one is a primocane, gets cut to the ground in February, will grow a new cane and fruit on that cane next autumn. The Tulameen is a floricane, the long cane grown this year will fruit next year and then you prune that cane out, leaving the cane that grows next year to fruit the year after.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    The absolute easiest are  Polka.   Plant them in a row, and  cut to the ground every February. Harvest all through September every year.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    https://james-mcintyre.co.uk/

    I bought 5 of 3 types last winter
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  • MenaintheGardenMenaintheGarden Posts: 31
    NewBoy2 said:
    https://james-mcintyre.co.uk/

    I bought 5 of 3 types last winter
    Ohh that’s good to know. Which did the best would you say? 
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I have just picked what I think is my last small bowl of raspberries from canes of Tulameen. They always begin fruiting in July August and continue until late Autumn. I cut out any old stems each year as they seem to throw up new canes at odd intervals and fruit on one and two year stems. 
    They still have new flowers coming but the storms we are having will not allow the fruit to mature now.
  • Ferdinand2000Ferdinand2000 Posts: 537
    Can I ask one, too?

    I have a bed of 3 neglected rows of raspberries, which I have generally left alone to watch this year to see what happens.

    I had a modest harvest in summer, and another one in the autumn.

    Does that mean I can prune one row for an autumn harvest, and the other two for a summer harvest, in the respective styles? Or do I need to go for one or the other. I think all 3 rows will be the same variety.

    Cheers

    Ferdinand
    “Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited October 2020
    Ferdinand2000 said:
    Can I ask one, too?

    I have a bed of 3 neglected rows of raspberries, which I have generally left alone to watch this year to see what happens.

    I had a modest harvest in summer, and another one in the autumn.

    Does that mean I can prune one row for an autumn harvest, and the other two for a summer harvest, in the respective styles? Or do I need to go for one or the other. I think all 3 rows will be the same variety.

    Cheers

    Ferdinand

    Yes, assuming they are an autumn cropping variety, which they do sound like.  If you cut one section to the ground in Feb, those will produce a single (but large) crop next autumn.  For the other section, only cut-out canes which have fruited (ie 2 year old canes) and the rest will crop next summer, with a smaller crop in autumn (from the new canes which will appear next spring.)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    RosyNose, your pot is too small for even one of the raspberry plants you have in it, so to answer your original question, if you can only grow in a pot, yes you would be better off with a dwarfing variety. I’m pleased with my Joan J autumn fruiting rasbs, good crop and good flavour, but like all non-dwarfing varieties, need to be grown in the ground or a raised bed. I nearly bought Polka, but they do grow very large and theoretically JJ was a less tall variety. Still grew huge though!
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  • Ferdinand2000Ferdinand2000 Posts: 537
    Thanks.
    “Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
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