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RaspberriesRed

YellowBlack

RaspberriesRed summer-bearers or “fall bearers”

Black fruited raspberries are called“blackcaps”. All fruit in June

Yellow fruitedsummer-bearers or“fall bearers”

Floricanes

Drupelet

Terminology: Fruiting Lateral

Primocanes

Summer-bearing Raspberries:

Primocanes

Floricanes

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Summer-bearing RaspberriesCultivars:

Recommended for Western Oregon

Meeker• Medium-large sized• Excellent for processing• Good flavor• Some resistance to root rot

Willamette

• Medium sized fruit• A bit dark when fully ripe• Good flavor• A bit susceptible to root rot

Summer-bearing RaspberriesCultivars:

Recommended for Western Oregon

Chilliwack

• Medium-large size• Excellent for fresh &• Excellent for fresh &

processing• Good, very sweet flavor• Somewhat susceptible to

root rot

Summer-bearing RaspberriesCultivars:

NOT highly recommended for Western OregonAll are sensitive to root rot

Canby

Tulameen

• Large sized fruit• Firm berries• A 55-day fruiting season• Excellent flavor• Susceptible to root rot

Chilcotin

Comox

Summer-bearing RaspberriesCultivars:

Note: The cultivars Newburghand Sumner are quite resistantto root rot. However, the flavorof these is not impressive

Newburgh

of these is not impressive

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Summer-bearing RaspberriesCultivars:

Recommended for Eastern OregonAll are relatively cold hardy

Haida

Skeena

Algonquin

• Small-medium fruit• Firm berries• Good flavor• Some resistance to root rot

Canby

Chilcotin

Summer-bearing RaspberriesPlanting Establishment:

New primocane growth(on a raised bed)

At the end of year 1

These young, shortprimocanes will producea “baby crop” in year 2

Summer-bearing RaspberriesManagement Systems:

Hedgerow

Hedgerow is too wideHedgerow is too wide

Summer-bearing RaspberriesManagement Systems:

Hill System

Dormant hill

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Summer-bearing RaspberriesPruning:

Step 1: Remove dead floricanes

Summer-bearing RaspberriesPruning:

Step 2:Thin primocanes

Step 3: Top primocanes

Summer-bearing Raspberries

Training Systems:

Hill System

“Tee pee”

Topped, bundle tie

Tee-pee

“Arc-cane”

Primocane-fruiting Raspberries:

Dead fruiting lateral

Tip portion of primocane that fruited dies

Base of cane will produce asummer crop next year (floricane)

winter

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Primocane-fruiting RaspberriesCultivars:

Kiwigold & Goldie

yellow-fruited clones ofHeritage, nearly identicalexcept fruit color

Heritage• Medium sized fruit• Good flavor• Season: Aug. 20 - early Oct.• Some resistance to root rot

except fruit color

Primocane-fruiting RaspberriesCultivars:

Summit

• Medium sized fruit• Good flavor• Season: Aug. 10 - early Sept.• Some resistance to root rot

SummitAmity

• Medium sized fruit• Good flavor• Season: Aug. 15 - early Sept.• Some resistance to root rot

Primocane-fruiting RaspberriesCultivars:

Kiwigold and Goldie,yellow-fruited clones ofHeritage, also available

Fallgold • Medium sized fruit• Good flavor• Season: Aug. 10 - early Sept.• Some resistance to root rot

Primocane-fruiting Raspberries

Planting Establishment:

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Primocane-fruiting RaspberriesPruning:

Remove tip portion in winter

For a June (floricane) & a fall (primocane) crop

Early summer crop on baseof floricanes in June

Primocane-fruiting RaspberriesPruning:

Leave about a 3-4” stubble

For a fall (primocane) crop only

Primocanes grow in spring

Black Raspberries: Black RaspberriesCultivars:

The commercial blackcaps grownare Rubus occidentalis

O ti bl k

Munger• Small-medium sized fruit• Firm berries• Good flavor• Susceptible to root rot

Our native blackcap, R. leucodermis, is great tasting

Canes have great fall color, butare very thorny

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Black RaspberriesCultivars:

Blackhawk

• Medium-sized fruit• Fair flavor• Some resistance to root rot• More cold hardy than Munger

Jewel• Medium-large fruit• Good flavor• Some resistance to root rot• More cold hardy than Munger

• More cold hardy than Munger

Purple RaspberriesCultivars:

Brandywine

• Large sized fruit• Good flavor• Some resistance to root rot• Cold hardyy

Royalty

• Large sized• Good flavor• Some resistance to root rot• Cold hardy

Black RaspberriesPlanting Establishment:

Establish plants at3-4’ in the row

Plant on well-drainedsoil or raised beds

Sunny location

Neutral pH

Pruning:Black Raspberries

Summer pruning is required

Tipping to 2-3’ high

Primocane brancheslate summer

Pruned plant in winter

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Black Raspberries

Plant in spring

Temporary trellis

Harvest:Pick fruit every 3 to 4 days. Pick early inthe day, but after dew has dried

Pick into shallow containers to avoidcrushing fruit

Common Problems in the Home GardenWinter Cold Injury

Tips of floricanes injured by winter cold

Cane damage to blackcaps frequently

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Common Problems in the Home GardenPoor Pollination

Blackcaps are sensitive topoor fruit set (crumbly fruit)

Poor pollination in rain

Blackcaps are sensitive asbloom is early and flowersare held in a flat position

Common Problems in the Home GardenDiseases - Root Rot

Floricane symptoms at harvest

Primocane collapse inblackcaps

Plant resistant cultivarsPlant in well-drained soil on raised beds

Common Problems in the Home GardenDiseases - Anthracnose

Blackcaps are sensitive toanthracnose

Lesions have a gray center

• Maintain an open canopy• Remove diseased canes

right after harvest• Use dormant lime sulfur

Common Problems in the Home GardenDiseases - Verticillium

• Blackcaps are sensitive to verticillium

• Plants wilt and die in late summer

• Plant only certified plantmaterial

• Avoid sites that had othersensitive hosts (Solanaceous)

• Remove and destroy infectedplants. Do not replant in these areas

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Common Problems in the Home GardenDiseases - Botrytis

Botrytis on fruit and cane botrytis

Note symptomaticrings

• Disease is promoted by a warm, moistenvironment. Maintain an open canopy

• Avoid overhead irrigation and late watering

Photo: Pete Bristow

Common Problems in the Home GardenDiseases - Yellow Rust

• Cultivate in late fall to bury/removefallen leaves

• Remove and burn infected floricanesright after harvest

• Do not tie up new canes until all leaves have fallen

Common Problems in the Home GardenHerbicide Damage

Phytotoxicity from Round-Up R is the most common herbicide problem in home gardens

Leaves are chloroticand strap-likeand strap like

• Avoid using thisherbicide (or a 2,4-Dproduct) anywherenear raspberries

Common Problems in the Home GardenHeat/u.v. Damage

Red raspberries, in particular, are sensitive to damagefrom intense u.v. light

Symptoms are whitedrupelets on the sunside of fruit

• Shading reducesproblem

• Symptoms don’t occurin all years

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Raspberries:

Pages 227 - 231

in your Master Gardener Handbook

This slide presentation and the aforementioned

pages were prepared by:

Dr. Bernadine Strik, ProfessorExtension Berry Crops SpecialistOregon State University

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Common Problems in the Home GardenDiseases - Viruses

Raspberry Bushy Dwarf VirusRBDV

There is no control for infected plants