Raspberries are fruit bushes that require regular pruning.Pruning raspberry shootshas a positive effect on yielding and facilitates harvesting. Seewhen to prune raspberries , what is the difference between pruning fruiting raspberries once a year from raspberries that repeat fruiting, and when to trim raspberries for the first timeafter plantingHere it is, what you need to know about ithow to prune raspberriesto grow he althy and yield abundantly.
How and when to prune raspberries so that they yield abundantly?
Raspberry varieties are divided into two groups - fruiting once a year in summer or autumn and repeated fruiting.
Varieties that bear fruit in summer bloom on last year's shoots, and their fruit fully ripens in summer, while the varieties of autumn raspberries bear fruit on this year's shoots, i.e. in the year of fruiting, which is very important for the selection of the right date when pruning raspberries
By autumn or spring cutting of raspberry shoots after harvesting, their he alth is increased, the risk of dangerous raspberry disease, i.e. shoot dieback, is minimized, and raspberry pests feeding inside are reduced a shoot, such as a raspberry sight.Regular pruning of raspberriesalso promotes proper and abundant fruiting.
How to prune raspberries after planting
"In spring, right after planting,prune the raspberries for the first timeThanks to this, new shoots grow from ground-level buds and adventitious buds on the roots. If we do not prune the raspberries, all the energy will be directed to the existing shoots, the plant will bear fruit, but it will slowly wear out and will not produce any new shoots in the next year, growth and fruiting will be very weakened."
During the growing season, usually 2-4 shoots emerge from the root neck. In the spring of the second year, we decide on one of the recommended ways to keep raspberries. Select 8-10 strongest shoots from young shoots and tie them to a lane structure. Thinning too densely shoots are thinning, and those that shoot too high are bent and tied together. If we lead raspberries next to the knitting needles, we cut off only the withered or broken tops.
How and when to prune summer raspberries
In summer-fruiting raspberry varieties, it is best to remove two-year-old shoots right after harvesting them and thus prepare a place for the emergence of young shoots.
When the shoots grow up, we attach them to the wires. At the end of the following winter, cut their tops to a height of about 15 cm above the highest wire. It is these shoots that will bear fruit later in the same year.
After harvesting the fruit very stronglyprune the raspberries , removing all fruiting shoots near the ground. New shoots are evenly distributed and tied to the wires.
In each subsequent year, at the end of winter, trim the tops of all shoots to a height of 15 cm above the uppermost wire. Later, after harvesting the fruit, cut off all the fruiting shoots flush with the ground and attach the young shoots to the supporting wires.
How and when to prune fall raspberries
Autumn raspberries bear fruit on this year's shoots, sohow to prune autumn raspberriesis very simple. In autumn-fruiting varieties, all shoots are pruned above the ground only in winter, and in spring, a line is formed from emerging shoots. We cut the shoots at a height of 5 cm above the ground, stimulating the development of new fruit-bearing shoots. If only the upper, yielding parts of the shoots this year are removed, an additional early crop can be harvested from the lower parts the following year, but it is very modest and this method of pruning is usually not practiced.
How and when to trim repeating raspberries
Glade is one of the most popular varieties of raspberries that repeat fruiting.It owes its popularity to exceptionally tasty fruit and repeating fruiting from the second half of September to the first frost. Prunerepeating raspberries bushesnext to the ground after harvesting in late autumn or very early spring.
Root sucker removal
When trimming raspberriesit is also worth paying attention to whether there are no suckers near the bushes. They should be regularly removed so that the bushes do not thicken too much. Remove the suckers appearing close to the bushes by hand and cut them off from the mother plant with a secateurs. Those growing further can be prized with a hoe or dug out with a spade without fear of damaging the mother plant. Well-rooted suckers with visible buds, from which new shoots will grow, can be used for new raspberry cuttings.
This is especially worth doingwhen pruning raspberries in the fall , when there is also a good time for planting new plants. Then the root suckers removed from the ground should be transplanted to a new position, after cutting their shoots at a height of 20-30 cm.Root suckers are the easiest and most frequently used method of propagating raspberries in amateur garden crops.
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