2 years ago i picked up a potted raspberry at a new nursery. the tag claimed that the plant grew 1 crop in the fall on primocanes and 2 crops on the floricanes. mid summer and early fall. i put it less than ideal spot and forgot about it. now its become a 6ft x 15ft bed. the berries are very big and they taste awesome, i think i grazed some off of them last fall . id like to find the name of it. i looked everywhere online and havent found a cultivar that has its features or any other for that matter. the name had something that said about its fruiting i think. they’ve been ripening since last week. has long reddish upright canes. sparse thorns. anyone got a idea what this is?
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Without at least a picture, it’s going to be impossible to tell
If it was in circulation two years ago there’s a chance Ison’s has a listing for it. The low percentage of spines (thorns) and berry size are good clues. Perhaps AgriStarts is distributing it as well.
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If we are going to do this Jeopardy style…
What is Autumn Bliss Everbearing?
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ok. ill get some pics. i thought that since the floricanes fruited 2xs instead of once, it would ring a bell with someone. i remember it was a snazzy, unique sounding name but that’s it.
Hey @steveb4,
If I had to guess, it sounds like Polka (timing, size, taste); Polka is a firm berry
per ME extension:
POLKA RED RASPBERRY, nearly thorn less ever-bearing variety. Large, deep red berries are firm and very sweet. A very productive variety with berries ripening in July and again in September to frost. Grow in full sun on moist well drained soil. The nearly thorn less stems makes for easy fruit picking. Hardy in zones 4 to 8.
Ripens about two weeks before Heritage and a week after Polana a popular variety thats easy to grow.
but it could be Autumn Bliss or Autumn Britten as well; Polka and the UK Autumns all have small thorns
the Autumns are more susceptible to Botrytis - have you seen gray mold
whatever it is, it’s an early primocane red; dont think polana (short canes and smaller size but same ripening period) and dont think an Autumn because they arent common anymore and harder to find since older and from UK.
What is Himbo Top?
if you remember the nursery, you can narrow it down a bit since it was only 2 years ago, they will probably still carry it; It will be a fall bearing red.
There are no varieties that have a double floricane crop.The nursery must have meant a summer crop (floricane) and a fall crop (primocane)
“ripening since last week” means they were red last week? Pictures would help.
My Himbo Top are not red and we are south of you. Still think Polka.
Different game… thats Who Wants to be a Millionaire. With the lifelines and hints.
What is Sweet Repeat Everbearing Red Raspberry?
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I think the right question is what is a large, early, vigorous, red fall-bearing raspberry for zone 4 with sparse thorns?
i think that’s it Kris! where did you hear about it.
maybe not. i just read about it on gurneys. it doesnt match the fruiting description of what i have and isnt hardy here.
which one? ive guessed a few times… Sweet Repeat makes the least sense…since its a gurneys variety… and you said you picked it up at a new nursery. The others that we have guessed also make very little sense as most of them are online nursery only varieties. Only the older very common ones mostly make it to the potted local nurseries from my experience.
Sweet Repeat is Nantahala, a NC State-developed variety that is late for a primocane
The timing of ripening doesn’t seem right at the beginning of Aug
definitely not it. the thing that sets it apart is it puts out 2 crops on the same floricanes instead of just 1. why it caught my attention and i paid the price i paid for it. why i thought the name sweet repeat was the name because it sounded something like that.
There are 2 summer-bearing reds that have a little twist in that they can also have small fall crops (but the fall crops are on primocanes)
Nova (from Canada) and Prelude (from Cornell); both have small thorns and are large
i have both of those. the berries on this one are double the size of both of those and the canes are near 6ft. the berries are conical shape.
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Vigorous!
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they are and they arent trellised so they are laying on each other. ill fix that this fall. growing on plain rocky clay with 0 amendments/ tilling right against my Jerusalem artichoke patch. why wild raspberry are weeds here. looking forward to see how they perform with a little t.l.c.
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so you see one floricane crop, stops, then a second floricane crop on the same cane? or is it an extended floricane crop over a month?
when does the primocane crop ripen?
Any luck narrowing it down by the selection from the nursery?
the size can narrow it down - I have Himbo Top and they have huge conical berries, are tall and very vigorous with small sparse thorns and red canes (when exposed to the Sun); but they are not anywhere close to being ripe and flowering now
close up of thorns
polka can be big and it is early and tall and vigorous
crimson giant is enormous but a later primocane
narrow it down by the selection from the nursery and nail down the primocane ripening time
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