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Bare root Raspberries

martin_little44martin_little44 Posts: 2
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I planted some bare root raspberries when I received them in November and cut them down to 15cm as instructed. When can I expect to see new growth?

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I planted 3 types of bare root rasps. in autumn 2016.
    I didn't see anything above ground for 16 months!
    Then there were raspberries coming up everywhere!
    So during that time, the plants were growing a very strong (and very wide) root system.
    Hopefully yours wont be so tardy

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • martin_little44martin_little44 Posts: 2
    This is the second lot, I bought some last year and dug them up in late spring. There was not a vestige of root growth at all so I threw them away. Maybe I would have had a garden full of raspberry canes by now if I’d left them!!!
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I done the same.
    Seeing no growth above ground I decided to start again, but as I started digging them out I found lots of fresh new roots so I let them be and some while later my raspberry forest appeared :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    My established Polka are just starting to shoot from the ground, but I'd expect raspberry canes planted only last year to take quite a while longer before you see anything (if they are an autumn-fruiting variety.)  When I originally planted raspberries, I'd say more than half of them died in-situ or were already dead when delivered.  The survivors soon made up for that though and the only issue now is keeping them from escaping their allotted space.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • hatty123hatty123 Posts: 125
    I planted autumn bliss in November. Out of 10 I've got 2 with proper leaves and 2 with buds just emerging and the rest still just look like dead sticks. But I read on this forum about the scratch test, so I've done that and out of the dormant ones only one didn't have green underneath the bark, so I'm still hopeful they're just being slower than the others. Pulled up the one with no green and it was dead.
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