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July 11, 2006
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How to Prune Summer-Bearing Raspberries
by Jack Ruttle
Shorten tips of canes 6 to 10 inches. Late winter or early
spring, just at the end of the dormant season, is the best
time to prune summer-bearing red raspberries. Here's how.
If you didn't remove the old canes right after they fruited
last summer, take those out first. Then thin the canes that
will bear this season's crop. Prune out all the smaller ones,
leaving fruiting canes four to six inches apart in a bed
that's about a foot wide.
Next, you can shorten the canes that are left, but easy does
it! According to Marvin Pritts, a small fruits specialist at
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the most fruitful
portion is the top third of the cane.
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If you are in the habit of cutting your canes back by half
(leaving them about three feet tall) so they will be self-
supporting, you are sacrificing half your potential crop.
The top portion of the cane is most fruitful because the
buds are spaced more closely there. So the only portion you
should remove is the very tip, where the cane becomes thin-
ner or somewhat undersized. Buds that formed there late
last season are not strong and often suffer winter damage.
Most varieties should be five or six feet tall after you've
finished pruning. For support, fasten the canes to a trellis,
which can be as simple as a single strand of wire set
slightly lower than the tops of your canes. Later in spring,
remove the first flush of new replacement canes when they
get six inches tall. Such early cane removal increases the
crop by 20 to 50 percent.
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