Hello all,
I planted a row of raspberries in Fall 2024, including the Anne, Joan J, Heritage, and Royalty varieties. This summer they all did great and gave me a floricane harvest. Theyve all thrown up several primocanes, but only Joan J and Anne are fruiting, no sign of buds or floeers on Heritage or Royalty. Is it possible I received mislabeled varieties, or could there be sometbing else going on here?
Thank you!
Edit: I’m seeing mixed information on whether Royalty is a primocane or floricane variety, but fairly certain Heritage should be primocane fruiting.
Royalty is a floricane cropping raspberry… I had them for a few years and they only produced one crop a year in the spring.
Singlecroppers.
Herritage here in TN reliably produce a fall crop on primocanes… and the next spring produce a nice abundant crop on floricanes.
Doublecroppers.
I had some trouble with ohio treasure black and joan j here… OTB never produced a fall crop for me… and joan j fruited at oddtimes…
Possibly not enough winter chilldays here in southern TN for them.
So if you planted them in Fall 2024 and they gave you a great floricane harvest this year… you must have planted canes that were several feet tall?
Planting them in Fall 2024… this spring they would have spent most all of the crowns energy fruiting as you say…then alot of energy trying to establish roots… then whatever was left sent up primocanes… doubtful much energy was left to fruit…
Thats all dependent on them being primocane fruiting in the first place. No mention of which nursery you bought them from so hard to know for sure until they mature.
Thanks for confirming about Royalty, I was going off bad info. It has some monster primocanes so I’ll be expecting a nice crop next summer.
My “Heritage” came from a big box store so I’m thinking it must be mislabeled. Delicious berries, more intense flavor and later summer crop than my Joan J, but seemingly not Heritage.
Sorry, I should have specified, these plants were growing in pots for a few years before I transferred them in ground, so they were already sending up primocanes in 2024.
The “Heritage” came from a big box store, so I’m not confident it hasn’t been mislabeled. Delicious intense raspberry flavor, and the summer crop was several weeks later than my Joan J.
For fertilizer, I gave them a hit of fish emulsion in the Spring and again during the summer once the floricanes were winding down.
A hint of 5-1-1 is probably less than throwing grass clippings and woodchips on them…
For reference… once mine become mature i go with 1-2 handfuls of 13-13-13 in the spring rainy season. Stronger canes, and healthier leaves are also more apt to have better natural defense as well as providing enough nutrition for a heavy fruit load.
Heritage from the box stores are from what i can tell true to name when potted… but the boxes with bags are usually wineberries… if yours dont look like wineberries then likely they are heritage.
From the information…i think if you up your fertilizer or amendments like woodchips and manure you will have better results… YMMV though.
Okay. I think I’m under fertilizing mine! I was pretty neglectful based on the big thread (https://growingfruit.org/t/blackberries-raspberries-and-hybrids). The way people talk you’d think I was coddling my raspberries by tossing some small amount of fertilizer and wood chips at them.
They have been growing - but it seems really slow to me. I’ll try more in spring.