score. free plants.

[CJ1]

Send me some. Well yeah. I could live off of them.

I want to do a straight raspberry wine grown here to save. No sugar no extras. Just raspberry. But it takes a LOT of them.

So. I'm out back weeding the garden. And they aren't looking good. The leaves on the northern facing side are dropping and the green stems are like burnt rubber. Bendy but brittle. But the short stems are robust and the leaves on the south eastern sides of the plants are green and happy.

I'm thinking that they might due back but survive if nutured. Won't produce this year. But maybe in a year or two. Unless one of you fruit gurus can help me nurse them back to producing.

Oh yeah. And I propped up that thick lattice work ya saw in the pic behind them. Maybe I'm an idiot but I thought maybe having the weight of the pant more held toward center would help them from dropping and take root.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'm wondering if they would benefit from being cut back a little? I'm no expert, but it might be worth a shot?

http://empressofdirt.net/transplant-raspberries/

 

[baymule]

Right now they have to establish their root system and get over the shock of transplanting. You can make your own root stimulator with willow. Clip the ends of willow branches, the green tips. Strip the leaves and cut in small pieces, soak for 3 days in a cool place. Then dilute and water the raspberries with it. You can also use the solution to root cuttings.

 

[CJ1]

Ok. Thanks. Have no easy access to willow.

Two of the plants are doing very poorly. One is great. I was thinking about cutting the two back like was mentioned earlier. Not a botanist or anything. But I was thinking that cutting them back to stems would force the plant to focus on roots instead of devoting Entergy into saving unsaceabke branches and leaves. Or is that something that will naturally happen after the rest dies? Cause the other two are really bad off.

 

[baymule]

Cut them back.

 

[CJ1]

How far back should I cut them?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

http://empressofdirt.net/transplant-raspberries/

"PRUNE THE CANES
I cut my raspberry canes down to about 10″ long. Advice varies (6 to 18″) but this has always worked well for me. When I trimmed these ones, I also removed any dead canes."

 

[CJ1]

Ok. There aren't any leaves that low. Living or dead. I'll prune them after I go shopping.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Just hope they'll come back for you. I'm rooting for them/you because I've never been able to grow them here. Blackberries, yes! Raspberries not so much.

 

[CJ1]

I need all the hopes I can get.

There was a patch of wild raspberries on the southern facing side of the treeline. But they cut all that down to make it look better to buyers. wish they hadn't of done that.