Raspberry - Autumn Bliss

[MINESAPINT]

My plants are producing very many more new canes than I imagine is suitable. Each plant has 20 to 30. I am wondering if I would be wise to thin these to a respectable number?

Thanks

[boboff]

Personally I wouldn't.

Give them a good mulch with well rotton manure or compost, and get the cream and Merangue ready.

[pelmetman]

Apart from cutting down canes at appropriate times we haven't thinned out our raspberry bed for years yet each time we seem to get more and more fruit so I wouldn't bother.

Sue

[growingthings]

and get the cream and Merangue ready.

drool!

My Raspberries have produced lots of new fruiting canes, I've mulched (and watered! ) and they look like they are doing fairly well.

Hope you get a bumper crop, and we get a downpour soon..

Lorna x

[locum76]

In a commercial setting you'd thin to 6 or 7 canes per stool.

[Millymollymandy]

I thin out my autumn raspberries as I get far more fruit, otherwise it's just a jungle of canes and leaves packed too closely together and production is far less, not to mention far more difficult to pick! I cut out the thinner more straggly canes. Think it depends how many years they have been in situ as to whether you feel the need to do it or not - mine are on year 6 and all growing into each other.