That was also my experience with Carmine Jewel suckers. I think I will sever the suckers from the mother plant with a spade from now on and then let them grow in place for a year before transplanting them. That should inspire them to grow more feeder roots.
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Good point. I was wondering if severing a large root from a mother plant would cause the severed root to send up suckers quicker than waiting on the plant to do it naturally
Here are pictures of my Dorman Reds and Loganberries and the dates they fruited for me, I really like the taste of both, they both are trailing and my Dorman Red grows like crazy with some 10ā long canes and tip rooting where they touch the ground.
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I donāt know, but at least it wouldnāt have to stand the transplanting shock at the same time as the shock of being rudely severed from Mama.
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Do you grow Dorman Red for fresh eating? I have heard various reports that it doesnāt taste good. How do you find it?
Yes, fresh eating, I like them, but I havenāt tried a lot of different raspberries here, I tried to grow heritage and fall gold but they really didnāt grow good for me even through I love the little bit of fall gold I got. I donāt have a lot of space or time to spend in the garden so I only keep the easy fast growing plants I have and give the others to neighbors.
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TY. If you like it good fresh, I might get a few. I had heard many say to avoid it, but itās worth a shot.
Hi, and welcome Kevin.
Iāve grown Kiowa, Apache, navaho, triple crown, and oauchita blackberries. I guess my overall favorite is oauchita, but Kiowa has huge berries and sometimes great flavor once they are dead ripe. It also has wicked thorns. Iād stay away from Apache because of a well documented and personally experienced white drupe problem. Triple crown has done ok for me.
Polka red raspberry has done well for several years. It produces both a spring and fall crop on the same canes, which are primocanes. This doesnāt match up with what the literature says it will do, but thatās what it does. Each winter I cut the plants to the ground which makes management easy. The plants do look terrible in the mid summer heat.
Iāve got climax, premier, tifblue, and alapaha rabbiteye blueberries. The birds absolutely love them. Despite a reputation for being generally pest free, Iāve lost 20 to 50 percent of the crop to the evil cranberry fruit worm. Between the birds and the worms, I sometimes get a decent crop.
Haldog
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Thanks for that info Haldog. I think Iāll give Polka a go along with Dorman Red. We all love raspberries need to make them work here 
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Just wanted to say welcome to the south and congratulate you on your new place. While you may not be able to grow everything you did back in CA, I think youāll be happy with what you can grow. Remember, Georgia is known as the peach state and are famous for the quality of their peaches, so if nothing else you should be able to do well with those.
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Ayers would definitely be a good choice for non gritty fb resistant pear
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How do you like the flavor of Ayers
Good choice with that statement. I am up in TN and will be starting my 4th season of growing blueberries. Every one of my 8 Rabbiteyes (Climax and Premier) is thriving , 5-6 feet tall and had a decent harvest last summer. Of the 8 SHB only two remain. Its painfully obvious to me from my vantage point that the SHBs are much more fickle than Rabbiteyes and freak out if their PH isnt nearly perfect. The Rabbiteyes just dont stress about PH as much and have proven to be more drought resistant for me. Of the 8 Northernās only two very weak looking bushes still barely hanging on. I wanted to experiment so I grew 8 of each. The results are not even close when it comes to maintaining and growing. The Rabbiteyes blow the others away on growth, survivability and vigor. I must admit though the SHB do taste a bit better. I currently have 8 Rabbiteyes ordered for this coming season to replace the SHB and NHB that perished.
Nice looking place you have there and welcome to the site!
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