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    Hello I planted 5 raspberry canes each into individual good sized square pots in January
    At the same time I trimmed them down to 6" and so far nothing??......is this normal I'm starting to panic

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    Hi Spunky,

    Do you know if they are Autumn or Summer fruiting? If they are Summer fruiting they bear fruit on the previous years canes, so cutting them down was possibly not the best idea. However, all is not lost, they should sprout again - it will just mean a delayed crop. If they are Autumn fruiting, then cutting them back was the right thing to do as they fruit on the current years canes, but to be honest I would have thought you would have signs of life by now. Mine are well on the way, and I'm only a little further south than you.
    When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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    • #3
      Thanks creemteez there everbearing?? Heritage raspberries......if they are done for is this common?

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      • #4
        why not dig up a cane and see if there are healthy shoots below ground

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        • #5
          see, last year I bought 5 of what were supposed ot be autumn fruitng and 5 summer fruiting canes. All of them grew and fruited...so I chopped all of them down. We will find out this summer if that was a good idea or not......

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          • #6
            Never heard of ever-bearing, though recently there have been suggestions to leave some of last years Autumn fruiting canes in place to get an earlier, extended cropping season. Have a shufty on the "Feelin' Fruity" page.
            When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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            • #7
              My (autumn) ones are only just peeking out of the soil. Don't dig them up, they won't like it.

              From an online goggle, it seems that everbearing is the American term for autumn (raspberries)
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                online goggle? Love the concept

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                • #9
                  Thanks everyone, I dug them up in the end there's nothing going on at all .....on the plus side ive got some big well manured pots for my tomatoes

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                  • #10
                    I planted six Glen Ample plants into the open ground last autumn (I bought them from an on-line nursery), but they look completely dead. They just look like brown sticks in the ground with no signs of life. Do you think they are dead or is there still time for them to start to grow

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                    • #11
                      Leave them for a while yet, Samson. If they're a no-show by the end of this month, maybe have a furtle to see if there is anything going on just below the soil. Were they bought as bare-rooted canes? If so they would have needed a good soaking in a bucket before planting and kept damp once planted. Fingers crossed!
                      When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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                      • #12
                        I planted some last year which looked dead a while ago, and I was on the verge of digging them up when I noticed lots of little baby shoots coming up all over the place, so I left them be! The original canes still look dead, but I'm happy enough with their offspring . I planted some more last autumn - the left-overs from a 'promotion' in the local diy/garden centre. They looked dead when I bought them, and look pretty much the same now! But based on last year's experience I'm leaving them in for a bit longer and keeping my fingers crossed. I've found in the past that things which are 'newly' planted (in their first growing season) often tend to be a bit behind things which have been established for a year or two.
                        sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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                        • #13
                          I have said this on other threads but will say again, how to distinguish between summer and autumn raspberries, I was told that autumn ones have prickly stems and you cut those down after fruiting / later in the year, summer fruiting have smooth stems and you leave them to fruit and only cut the fruiting stems after fruiting, leave the ones that haven't fruited for next years fruit.
                          Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
                          and ends with backache

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