Ty i may have to pass this year mine are just growing wild all over my yard so this year im going to use my extra cedar and stone scraps and make them actual beds to be contained although i have threatened to do this in other years and just let them run wild and free vs doing more work.
my best tasting raspberry i dont grow anymore. heritage are hard to beat but fruit too late for me. some years i didnt even get half the crop before frost kills them so i removed them. been slowly switching to growing summer bearers preparing for the inevitable arrival of SWD here. planted prelude, acc eden and cascade gold last spring. for processing, and eating out of hand in red stage, royalty purple is a heavy producer of big berries and it only sends shoots from the crown. im planning to propagate my 1 plant to make a whole row of them. they produce 30% more than the best reds.
I swore I didn’t have swd until my aunt came by and submerged all my berries in water, with the heat here they don’t last if you don’t pick them anyways and think of all the free form amino acids I am getting for free.
My issue with summer bearers is sometimes our snap frosts can top kill canes and I like being able to regenerate them by weed whacking or mowing the area. The idea of covering raspberries seems silly and I would hate to not get raspberries every year.
I do think I have had raspberry borers of some form by some vine death I have had but have yet to find one.
so far our snow here has been deep enough that i havent had die off. only on double gold which was only hardy to z5. my biggest pest here is horntail wasp in july. if i dont spray them before they flower i get 75%of them infested. then i have to snap off a few inches below the wilted tip and lose alot of production on the primocanes.
That’s exactly how they grew. New canes from the crown. Very thorny and super long. And a burnt orange color at peak. The canes also stayed green. I think you are right and that they were the black raspberry mutation. I plan to visit the location of where I got the originals from to see if there are anymore. Once the weather permits. I’m so anxious that they be there!
The bed is gone as I moved and they did not make the transition. I had one baby that survived last winter that only grew to about a foot. Not promising. I’m waiting for ground thaw to check on it and crossing my fingers it’s still there. I will nurse it back to health if so now that I have stable living. I also plan to visit where i got the original plants to see if any survived from there.
I bought the Annes but I need more control over their propogation. They are spreading too fast. That’s why I like the tipping kind of raspberries. I have much more control. I have a black Jewel and am looking forward to a first crop.
Did the fruit taste like rasphberry or more like blackberry aroma wise? (if you ignore the tartnes/sweetnes)
on your first picture, did the yellow and black fruits taste the same? or significantly different aroma wise?
could you direct me to that post?
If just joined this forum. so dunno exactly what your talking about.
I do know a store in the EU that sells ~50 rasphberry’s. So good chance i could buy some of those your talking about.
Well good luck on the ones you have now coming back and adjusting to their new home. It does seem like a interesting variety having some black raspberry and other unique characteristics so its definitely worth saving!
@steveb4 Usually when i leave mine fence high or so they break from snowfalls or animals or something and so i cut them before they go fully dormant to around 2-4’ high depending on where they are. They always get some tip death for me but that is the best way i can reliably get early fruit. In years when im more crazy i bring some in and get them started at the same time that i start peppers and tomatoes to get earlier harvests
@oscar I wish i could if i find it i will send you the information!
i too cut my black rasp primocanes at 5 ft. unfortuniyly i dont get much from my primocane crop but get a much bigger harvest the following summer. the 1st year i let them grow and i had some canes 8-10ft. not fun to try and mow around.
All my yellow/orange rasphberry’s taste like a rasphberry but not the same. Way sweeter. not nessesarely higher sugar. less accid. so you notice the sugar more. they still have similair aroma.
I don’t have the golden everest. But i got other summer rasphberry’s. And they easaly reach 10+ feet long.
Im not saying you specificaly had goldend everest. But that it would likely be a yellow/orange summer rasphberry. like for example golden everest.
My black rasphberry’s don’t taste like rasphberry’s. More like blackberry.
And fall rasphberry’s differ massively in growth style from what you discribed. So that leaves yellow summer rasphberry’s. By proces of elimination.
i have anne, cascade gold yellow raspberries and autumn britten, polka, joan j , acc eden and prelude red raspberies. all sucker profusely all over the place and the canes are less than 2 meters. my royalty purple and ohio treasure black raspberries have 3m+ long canes that only sprout from the crown. its a brown cap black raspberry you have. they have a slightly different taste than the black ones but basically a albino black raspberry. the nasty thorns and fruiting from the crown is a dead giveaway its a black raspberry. Drew51 is sharing one to me this spring. if you cant find your original , by spring 22’ i could send you some cuttings.
I can’t wait to find out if that one survived! And if it’s still green. I put black and gold up there and can tell just by the canes color which is which because the black ones turn purple quickly while the gold stays green. I will let you all know if I have any luck or not and thank you for the offer!
You have a yellow/golden summer raspberry? I can’t find any cultivars for yellow/golden summer raspberries that grow viney instead of shrubby. I’ve been doing a general search and switched my search words a thousand times. All that comes up are the ones that grow from shoots and not the crown or tipping. It’s become frustrating that’s why I came to this forum.
yellow raspberries are the same as red raspberries just not in color. they spread everywhere and have shorter , less spiny canes… only black or purple raspberries and thier sports have the long canes that sprout from the crown. look on oikios. they have the brown cap like you were growing for sale there.