Pruning Raspberries - Why? How? When? (2020)
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- Raspberry bushes have to be pruned every year to maximize growth and production and limit disease and pests. There are two types of Raspberry bushes, summer-bearing and ever-bearing. Which type you have will dictate how you prune. Pruning Raspberries isn't hard and it doesn't take long. But doing it right is essential to having a healthy, producing crop every summer.
Your Raspberry bush must not be pruned in the fall. Leave it alone! Raspberry pruning is done at the end of winter, leading into spring bud break. This allows you to clear out all the old brambles properly, easily determine the Floricanes from the Primocanes, and lets you have perfect spacing to lay down that final layer of mulch before the patch becomes foliage (and thorn!) heavy.
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what types do you grow?
What do you mulch with? Grass?
@@patandbrenda53 grass or leaves or straw
I dont know how many videos I have watched about Raspberries here on youtube and your video has been by far the best one... I finally understand the difference in the canes. Thanks Much!
Wow, thanks Stephanie! Glad it helped! Cheers and Happy Growing!
amen!
Me as well. Thank you!
Yeah this was a great, clear video, thanks! Going out to do this right now!
I agree.
Love the information and the delivery. Thank you!
I'm rewatching this for the third season now. The last two years I've had more raspberries than ever! Thanks!
Right on, glad to hear glenn!!
OMG my raspberries are taking over my herb garden!!! I planted one little plant in 2020 and used my husband's old horseshoe pits to make herb gardens! Now the raspberries are shooting up all over! Great video! This helped me understand so much.
Ha ha a nice problem to have... How were the harvests?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms plentiful!!!! I was able to make raspberry jam!
@@jenniemchenry9278 love it! I like it even more than strawberry jam!
Awesome job. Great advice not to prune in Autumn, your examples show exactly what I've got in my patch and now, after watching this, I know exactly what to do with my patch. Many thanks🙂
Amazing video, thank you! I watched so many others about pruning raspberries and your video is the best, most informative and easy to understand by a long shot. Keep up the good work! 👍
Thank you! You are a great teacher. You are obviously very knowledgeable, but took the time to explain things on a basic level so beginners like me can understand and do it correctly right from the start. :) I'm excited I can put off my pruning til late March. :)
Thanks so much for the kind words Karen, much appreciated! :-)
Great video. Started with three raspberry plants from Menards last year. Thought they died over the winter. And then spring came.... I've had two harvests from them - in the spring and now this September (2023). And the raspberry canes have taken over a 4x8 foot section of the garden and infiltrated the 4x8 beds beyond their own! I came to TH-cam to see what needed to be done and found your video near the top of the list. So now I know - leave the canes alone until early spring, do the pruning then, and be ready for another abundant harvest! Oh, and be sure to mulch for winter. Thanks again!
Right on....sounds like you're setting yourself up for some major harvests in the coming years!
I watched this to prepare to go outside today and prune bushes in a new house I moved into. I suspect my raspberry plants thank you. My lazy side does too. Putting off to March! Woo hoo!
Ha ha, procrastination is my middle name!
Same! Kinda bummed I have to wait 😆
Amazing video! I read about this and watched multiple other videos, and with a patch I planted last year and will be pruning for the first time when it starts to warm up I finally feel like I will be able to tell the types of canes apart!
Reading articles left me with the impression that I was supposed to memorize what canes had previously fruited or something crazy like that! Seeing what they look like at the right stage of growth really helps.
Happy to help, best of luck!
I don't do a whole lot of gardening, but I do a little and this channel has been so amazing!
You have a delivery of information and actions in a very pleasant tone that doesn't make me feel dumb and is refreshing!
Thanks for the info :)
Thanks so much for this video. I've been pruning my ever bearing raspberries wrong for 15 years. I always cut them down to knee height every fall just before ground freeze. Learn something new everyday. Thanks. Cheers 🍻
They are tough plants and still likely produce for you though!
Glad I found your videos. You are reallly good at being comprehensive and staying on track. I've seen a lot of gardening videos, and I shared yours immediately to family who are butchering their raspberries :)
Right on Todd, thanks so much for the support and for watching. Its much appreciated man.
This is the best video that I have seen for thoroughly explaining what the difference between the canes is. You are very good at explaining things so they are easy to understand. I feel confident to be able to go out and tackle my overgrown bed. Thank you!
Thanks so much! Best of luck with your patch this year! :-)
Overgrown bed... what a nice problem to have! I'm still waiting for more than a stick with a tiny leaf 😂
@@KerriEverlasting The weather is making growth on everything here, very difficult.
Thanks! Your demo & instructions are going to be so helpful! I understand the difference between the two types of canes now. I also really like your suggestion of staggering the heights of the floricanes!
Wow I think I finally understand how to prune my new raspberry patch. Thanks a million! Very clear and comprehensive tutorial
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Thankyou Thankyou!! I almost went out there and gave mine a butcher 🤪 ...rewatched your video because I forgot. Your such a blessing. Thanks again 😁👍
I didn't know that Gary Vaynerchuk put out gardening videos, but I'm glad I discovered them!
Gary V is the man!
I keep coming back to remind me how it’s done🤔😁😂 Thank you for sharing 💝✨💖💫
Hey, thanks so much for watching! 🙂
I never considered cutting some of teh canes tall and some short to get more density vertically in your row. I always just took off the dead stuff at the top. Great idea!
Yeah I started experimenting a couple of years ago with different patches to see how'd they react and grow. It really allows for full vertical production. I'm sure it's variety dependent though man, so your mileage may vary! Cheers buddy!
I did not how my self i just wanted to know to grow and maintain them to make more. Now he is easy to uderstand. My wife had just bought black rasberries, roses,blues berries
I learn more from you than other channel because you show the cane instead of talk talk talk...
Thank you for the explanations! I just bought blackberry ebony king and raspberry jewel today. Can’t wait to see their growth!
Right on Thomas! Best of luck with the planting!
Great video..from a Canadian. Thank you...I feel confident now that my everbearing raspberries will get the correct pruning this year.
Thanks!! Best of luck with the harvests!!
Thank you! I have been baffled as to how to maximize my raspberry crop. I will try this pruning strategy and let you know!
Finally. I finally understand and feel confident enough to cut my berries
Happy found your video - clear and understandable, most of all - simple care of rasberies. Love the beauty in simplicity :)
I am a raspberry fan from the Philippines
I love how you explained this. So clear and very helpful!
@@hannahg3270 thanks for saying that Hannah! All the best with your growing!
Thank you! I just planted a bunch of raspberries this summer and had no idea how to prune them. Watched many confusing videos but now understand that I have everbearing raspberries and exactly when and how to prune them. A huge thumbs up!!!
I enjoyed ur video, I have a raspberry patch that runs along the length of my house, every year it expands itself. This year I used electroculture & the yield was off the charts. I don't have everbearing although I would try them. Appreciate the good info
Just moved on new property with tons of nut trees, fruit trees, endangered trees, and just found out last week the people before us also planted red raspberries all on our hill, East side of the property. It completely took over the entire hillside and now we have tons of berries... Will have to prune them this year.
Right on Miles....congrats on the mega harvest! :-)
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How I wish I found your channel LAST year! But never mind I've found you now. Thank you so much. I've watched other channels, including those specific to the U.K., I find yours especially easy to understand. Stella
Awesome!! Thanks so much, I really do appreciate it! So happy to have you along for the journey. Share to all your fellow gardeners who could get value from this and bring them along for the ride! :-)
Thanks, very clear instructions. What do you feed the canes and when?
Thanks Margaret. I feed my raspberries twice. Once at the end of harvest and once in the spring right after bud burst.
Our raspberries and black berries were out of control. One spring,out of frustration,my husband ran them over with the lawn mower.... Their production has been sky high ever since!😂✌
This method is MUCH gentler LOL
Ha ha! Awesome. If it works, it works! LOL
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms happy accidents💁
@@sugarmuffin319 ha ha, indeed!
Great advice fully explained clearly. I feel much more confident about pruning now I know the difference in the canes.Great job ! Thank you
I am a newbie in gardening and I love your video! Thank you!
Hey, thanks for that! Appreciate it!
Great video! Glad I finally found a Canadian channel. Rider pride 🤘
Thanks Meghan!! Too bad about the season this year... :( Thanks for watching though, appreciate the support!
Another great video thanks, I've said before but you remind me of mark Wahlberg 😀 nearly trimmed my raspberries back now they've finished fruiting, thanks for the tip 👍
Say hi to your mother for me.... (hope you get the joke!). LOL
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Mile 22 lol.. lets hope there's a Ted 3 lol..
Thanks Dude. I was about to hack them all down. My ex planted them and after 3 yrs I have a bush as big as a small shed LOL I can barley get into it now.
I will check out some more videos and see when I should move them. Unless you want to tell me?
Thank you so much. I watch this every year now
First video that makes sense for a newbie. Thank you for the details, I think i got it!
Right on rhonda, glad to help!
Thanks man Im in southern nsw Australia reckon my raspberries should go off this yr now good vid cheers all the best.
Right on, best of luck with them! :-)
This was such a helpful video! I had no idea about the two different types of canes on everlasting raspberries - time for me to do some observation to see what time my berries come, and then have a plan for next year! Thank you for the great tips!!
Thanks so much for this video. You’re great in explaining not only how to prune but “why” you should prune. Great video
Thanks Gabrielle, thanks so much for watching!
Thanks for showing this ! going to give raspberries a try this year
Best of luck! Once you get 'em going, they really are a productive perennial!
Ok this was exactly what I was looking for. I was going to prune now (end of july) but I'll wait until next march/april.
Omg me too
Fabulous info. The most thorough explanation I’ve seen. Thank you!
Thanks so much lisa, appreciate that! :-)
Have grown to really value your videos...good concise relevant info...thx. One question on flurocanes...why not cut them to ground level right after they have finished their early summer fruiting? My thought is then the crowns send more energy into the growth of the primocanes for the rest of the summer & fall. That’s how we’ve been doing it for 4-5 years now and while we’ve had spectacular results, wondering if they could be even better...always looking for a better way..l
Thank you for the awesome instructions! I finally feel confident to go out and tackle my raspberries overgrowth!
Right on Amanda! Keep us updated on the progress!
What did you use for mulch?
@@smontelius I use either straw or grass clippings, depending on the time of year.
Oh man I’m glad I saw this. I was about to go trim everything back 😮
Thanks Lidia! There's an updated video for this here if you wanted to check it out: th-cam.com/video/wQcSRwFpFOc/w-d-xo.html
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Is the pruning the same for boysenberries and blackberries??
Great video - my raspberries are out of control and I need to rejuvinate the patch.
Awesome video just getting some raspberries planted and this will help out in the future
Thanks, best of luck!
Thank you for this information, I now know to remove the old canes now, because the fruit is all done already, didn't seem to do very well this year anyway and then I will remove all the dead canes this winter. I have never pruned these raspberries, I know ;o( but I will be sure to check in on your videos and I am sure you will help with this.
I still get mixed up with summer and winter varieties im doing it the simplest way i know just cut out all the dead canes in late autumn early spring
Loved your video!! It is the end of September and I was about to go out and prune my raspberry plants. I'm so glad I watched your presentation. I will save that task until Spring. Were you using grass clippings as mulch? Just checking....
Very well explained! Thanks for sharing your experience!
I got lost ! What time of year you are doing all this process from the video?
Great video. Very helpful. Wondering if you have any tips for training raspberries to grow straight?
I've watched a lot of videos on this and yours helped out the most. Thank you!
Awesome Goldmane, thanks for the support!
what kind of much should i use. I live in NH. Very informative video thank you.
Thanks Marie! Shredded leaves, grass clippings, straw, or a combo are great mulches to use!
Just pruned my bushes following your guidance, had a great crop last year and I'm sure waiting till now to prune will make it even better. Easy to see last years Floricanes (sp?) from your guidance sorry if I misspelled. Planted 3 years ago with my blueberries - would ;love your take on them too if you grow... I will send pics if successful if you'd like to serve as a testimonial lol
Right on, glad to hear it Brian! Fingers crossed we have another great one this year!
Great Vid! Very informative. We are growing loganberries (cross between a raspberry and blackberry) and all gold raspberries, over here in My Edible Garden UK.
Thanks for a very clear tutorial on pruning raspberry bushes . .I live in the United Kingdom and I see you are in Canada . . Silly question . .does the time of year still apply to my bushes in the UK
Thank you, your video and directions are just fantastic.
Cheers! Thanks for watching! :-)
Super helpful! Here’s my question: we just put our patches in last year and had almost no fruit. Should i still prune this year or wait and see? TIA
I needed to do a good cleaning (dig out some volunteer trees that made their way into the area, weed, edge) as they hadn't properly been maintained for a couple seasons. So just now in early November In the upper part of zone 6, I cut out what should be the floracanes. To get to the florocanes more easily, I cut the top part of my primocanes that had grown above my top trellis wire which is maybe 4 ft high so that I could see to get into the trellis area to find the florocanes. Then it went looking for a video to decide how much more I wanted to prune them back. But it looks like I can wait until the spring to do the majority of the canes which are primacanes now. And in the spring I won't have any of what will be last year's florocanes at that point. But basically I'm just sharing this and seeing if anyone thinks that's going to hurt the plants to do this two-phase approach. I also dig up and give away a lot of raspberries each spring. It's probably better to give them away in the fall I suppose but I just never make it that far in my chores before the freeze. And also I'm curious if anyone has a thought on cutting out the flora canes now... They were clearly dead and dried off all the way to the base. In fact they could have been left there not growing anything all year. Many of them snapped off or even just separated at the base without even having to cut them.
Not sure if I'm making great sense. When I'm in there with the shears, pretty easy for me to know what I can safely cut out right to the ground that's not going to go back. And then it's the rest of the still living stuff that leaves me wondering a little bit if I'm doing it right.
Thank you pruning mine tomorrow
Right on Jennifer...spring is almost here!! :-)
Your instructions are so clear. Orderly and detailed. Thank you
Hi, tks for your informative videos. Do you think there is a species of raspberries that would grow in sub-tropical zone 9 Louisiana. My newest Gran loves these berries and I'd like to setup a patch in my garden just for her picking. Tks for your response. I appreciate.
Hi loved your video. My question is I have a patch of raspberries that are crazy wild. I can't tell you if they are ever baring or not. We've been here for years and never really paid attention to them. I'm retired now and have time to deal and help them possibly flurous. To be honest I've never owned a property with raspberries. I'm in Washago Ontario grow zone 5a to 5b. Anyway my question is do I just cut them all down to the ground this up coming spring? The most berries we've ever gotten from them was like 10 to 12. I may have made a mistake by cutting large green shoots this summer thinking they were suckers.
How should I trim my Meeker raspberries? I took out all the dead canes and now I have the ones with new growth left. But the new growth is mostly only on the tips of each cane, but I'm nervous to trim off that new growth to bring them down to a more reasonable size. Some of the canes are probably 8-9' tall 😮
Is there a good way to tell if you have ever bearing versus summer bearing plants? I bought these about a dozen years ago as three single cane plants from Aldi for $3 each. And over the years they've propagated very well. Then a couple years in we build a trellis for them. And another year or two after that we had so many that we started giving them away. There's been years that I've given away a hundred plants easily. So from these three Aldi plants, I've got a family tree of raspberry plants all over the area with probably 30 different people. So, they're that vigorous if that helps determine. Also they propagate pretty easily under the ground. Granted I have pretty loose soil, but in just working with them this fall I found several routes in the ground that had a dozen new shoot starting off of them already. Just tiny little brown roots with fine little white stalks starting up.
Awesome video! Covered everything I was wondering, thanks!
Hi there! Thank you sooooo much for these in-depth instructions! I'm so grateful especially for the careful and deliberate -slow camera action so i can follow! I live in zone 8b and don't have a green house- if I'm propagating raspberries late summer (as in your tutorial for that) 1 gallon pots, will they survive heavy frost- been trending frost and heavy freeze at least one or twice last several years. Thanks in advance!
Thanks Jessica... With really come temperature, you may have to group the pots together for protection and/or cover them. It all depends on the level of winter severity.
I messed up and cut all the canes within the first year bc I watched the wrong videos, now I'm not sure if it will grow and I'm at a loss of what to do.
Hey Andrea, that's a common mistake I see all the time. Your plant likely isn't dead. If its a june-bearing variety, you'll only get primocanes this year and no fruit. If its an everbearing type, you'll still only get primocanes, but likely a small harvest of fruit.
I do hope that it's not dead and new primocanes grow back, if it's dead I guess I can return it to home depot lol. I do exactly as you said on the video moving forward. Thank you for your helpful reply!@@TheRipeTomatoFarms
Hoping I can apply this to my wild black raspberries on our farm.
Similar growth... I don't see why not!
I just bought my first plant I'm going to give it a try this year,, so on trimming basically if it's brown drop it down if it's green Let It Go,, ,right???
So grateful for the education you share! Thank you!! Question, do we need to wait until the raspberry plants have started to leaf out before the spring pruning? It's March first here in zone 6 and I do not have any new growth as of yet.
What about plain old once yearly, black raspberries? Jewel is their name. I will try & apply what you've said, but I have no bigger cane. I have one 2 yr.old cane, the rest are having their second year. So I'm really at a total loss. But thanks because I'm a total rookie!😊
Excellent instructions. Thank you.
Thanks, and thank you for watching!
Thanks. Dad had raspberries when I was a kid. We just let the do there thing because we just thought they would take care of themselves. And they did. But, if I get to start raspberries next spring I want to have the right set up and understand the correct pruning for the berries I get.
Right on Bob. Most times you can just leave these guys and they'll still produce. A little care here and there and you're good to go!
Did you use grass clippings as your mulch? I really enjoyed your video and learning about the primocanes and floracanes. Thank you very much for this video!
same ?
It's mid June, Vancouver Island (zone 9). I'm harvesting raspberries now, but the new canes, no blossoms or fruit, are 24" taller than the fruit bearing canes. Un-pruned they are 5' tall.
I've pruned some down to the height of the fruit-bearing canes, so light can get to those berries.
Is this ok? Or should I leave the remaining ⅔ of my raspberry patch as is?
Thanks for your videos & in advance, for your answer ❤.
I don't know if these are everbearing or summer bearing. They were in the garden when I moved here.
What type of mulch do you use? My patch is a mess but so much fruit this season so far. It's my 3rd season. I didn't prune at all other than cut the dead canes . Mainly because I do not know what I'm doing. So I decided to learn. I don't even know which red raspberries I have, a friend gave me some to plant. Thanks for the vid.
Question: It looked like you added grass clippings for mulch--easy to do. What about pine tree sawdust for raspberries, which is good for blueberries?
Thanks for the informative video. Is the mulch cut grass?
Thanks Alisa. Yes I use grass, shredded leaves, straw, or a combination of...
Awesome video! I understand the two cane types now. Just wondering when you trim them do you just leave the trimmings under the plants to mulch down or do you take them out?
Watching from by backyard in Saskatoon, love the hat, thanks for the advise.
? I have three raspberry plants, purchased last year and in 25 gallon fabric pots. I have a heritage, baba and yellow. I want to move them to my deep raised beds. Question is should i prune first then transplant and when? Btw, they produced no berries at all so far
My raspberries grow 10 ft tall or more it is insane. They are taller than my man and my 8 ft support stick and they bend and turn so they are longer. I have lots of trimming to do as im late. Im always lateon trimming but they seem to handle it well. We have so many berries. We have a bad issue with the white larva though. I use captain jacks but it rains often here so it washes off or I cant get out to spray. We have 17+ ft row of 3 types of raspberries. Royal purple? Golden raspberries? And heritage. All everberring. Our large haul is in July and then trickling through August. We have unripend raspberries in late sept/ nov each year but never had them ripen.
Thanks for all the tips, great content!
Thanks Jahya! Appreciate it!
Would the instructions be the same for tub grown raspberries? My soil is clay with thick heavy grasses that nothing can kill.
What did you use for mulch .... just grass clippings? What about using leaves?
Planted new canes last spring. Grew tall but no fruit. Should I prune them this year or just let them grow.? Will I get fruit this year?
2nd question: last year was a disaster for the canes planted two years ago! Weird weather and the berries never ripened just shrivelled up on the ends of the canes. They are still on there, do I cut these canes right down or just cut off the dead ends with the dead fruit?.
Love how you explain things, so a beginner like me can figure it out...one question....some of my primocanes are 10 feet long...should I be cutting them back, or just laying them out across my trellis?
Thanks for the video but now I have a lot of questions... 1 I live Alaska so we still have snow and no new growth on the raspberries yet, can I prune them as soon as they start to green up?
2 I just moved to my house in the fall so I’m not sure what kind of plant it is, how can I tell?
I planted a raspberry bush this spring 2023 in my greenhouse. It has grown into a big healthy bush but did not flower or fruit. I did not have pollinators come in unfortunately even with door open. What should I do? My greenhouse still stays warmer than our freezing South Dakota winter. Not sure if I should heat the greenhouse over winter or let it go dormant and do I prune yet?
Anyway I could call ask a couple question if from Utah and have been trying to grow raspberries for a couple years and I just want more
Never beenso confused. Last year Floricane versus this year Floricane. Do Floricanes live for two years? Does a spring primacane becomes fall’s Floricane?