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I bought a Loganberry from Morrison's last year and planted it in large container. It seems healthy enough but one very tall cane has come up which is quite soft from the base. Having no experience with these plants, is it a sucker than needs cutting off ?
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The new canes are the ones that will fruit next year - don't cut them off or you'll have nothing.
Advice on pruning Blackberry and hybrid berry: pruning and training/RHS Gardening -
Also take good note on training them else you may well be dissatisfied with the virus ridden canes you end with in a few years.Feed the soil, not the plants.
(helps if you have cluckies)
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I got rid of my loganberrys and planted Raspberry instead. I found they had poor taste untill over ripe at which point they just rot and become a mush.Hussar!Comment
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Taste is maybe linked to variety.Feed the soil, not the plants.
(helps if you have cluckies)
Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
BobComment
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Never really had a huge crop from my Logan berry but I really love the taste!Comment
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It looks like I will have a good crop of them this year and I also like the taste but I think I will end up with "virus ridden canes" in a few years as my efforts to train them are failing miserably. Looking at the link above states planting them every 2.5-3m and i have 2 logan berry 1 tayberry and a raspberry all in 3m ish.Comment
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I grow tayberries and make tayberry gin with them. Usually, I just leave 3 canes each year. I train them in a circle on a trellis. Start with the biggest circle and train spiralling inwards towards the centre. If your lucky you will get a good and easily accessible crop. Trouble is, the blacbirds find the easy to get at. Use netting I hear you cry. Tried that. It just deprives the birds of a treat and gives the wasps a ffod sorce which they don't have to share. I'd rather lets the birds have them.Last edited by brownfingers; 01-06-2014, 07:32 PM.Comment
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