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Raspberry Bush suddenly struggling

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  • 14-12-2016 11:00am
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    crisco10
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    Hi,

    Transplanted a few cuttings from a friends garden over the summer and they had gone from strength to strength, and were about 4ft tall before stopping growing in September/October. But in last week, the leaves are losing their colour and all falling off...

    Is this "normal" or is my Raspberry bush dying? It is in the ground in a SW facing corner of garden, so as best as possible is in a sun trap.

    Any ideas? thanks!

    Picture attached of a few of the leaves (that havent fallen off yet!)


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    looksee
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    Raspberries are deciduous, the leaves fall off in winter.


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    crisco10
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    looksee wrote: »
    Raspberries are deciduous, the leaves fall off in winter.

    You know in all the googling of "Raspberry bush losing leaves" - the deciduous nature of Raspberries was not mentioned.

    I'm sure that someone says it somewhere, but perhaps goes to show the scare mongering nature of googling things. Always seems to go straight to viscous disease!


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    NABLOSE
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    It's normal that Raspberry bushes die off partly during the winter. It would also no harm to cut them down to the ground every second winter.
    We are located in the North West near Sligo and we have a very very hardy variety of Raspberry that produces fruit till late October. If you interested we can give you some cuttings or you can dig some plants out, a wee contribution to our farming project in return would be greatly appreciated. Regards


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    magicbastarder
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    NABLOSE wrote: »
    It would also no harm to cut them down to the ground every second winter.
    don't do this unless you know which sort of raspberry you have - some fruit on the current year's growth, some fruit on the previous year's growth. if you have the latter, you'll be losing a year of fruit every second year.


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    crisco10
    Registered Users Posts: 6,200 ✭✭✭crisco10


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    NABLOSE wrote: »
    It would also no harm to cut them down to the ground every second winter.
    don't do this unless you know which sort of raspberry you have - some fruit on the current year's growth, some fruit on the previous year's growth. if you have the latter, you'll be losing a year of fruit every second year.

    Is there a better way of finding this out than just simply waiting and seeing?


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