Raspberries Dieing

[Digeroo]

I have a patch of dead raspberries and some started into flower and suddenly died, though the new growth looks ok.

Can anyone suggest what is causing this?

I am concerned that people are sourcing diseased plants from their gardens and from friends.

I am thinking verticillium wilt is there a solution?

[Digeroo]

[artichoke]

I had high hopes of some new raspberry varieties I spent a lot of money on two years ago, but they have withered and died as well. Thanks for the suggestion as to what it might be. All the dead ones are on one allotment site, and I have two really flourishing rows of raspberries on a site 5 miles away. How much risk is there of carrying the infection from one site to the other, does anyone know?

[Deb P]

Interesting...my whole autumn fruiting raspberry patch has died as well this spring, it just never came up. I don't know how old all of the canes were as they were there when I took my plot over in 2006, but I had extended the patch will new canes a couple of years ago, but no sign of any of them!

[Crystalmoon]

Hi there, my raspberries are also doing nothing so far this year. I didn't get any fruit last year from my Summer fruiting canes as the awful wet stormy weather destroyed the blossom before being pollinated. I was hoping that as they had had a year off so to speak that this year would yield a bumper crop but so far they have only grown a few inches from the pruning point of last Autumn...I have no idea why unless I shouldn't have pruned them last year as they didn't fruit?
xJane

[Kea]

The Town Council groundsman sprayed the plot next to mine with weedkiller the summer before last. They don't seem to worry about wind or the fact that things like raspberries have suckers. the effects of being sprayed didn't show up until last summer and most died and those that didn't, didn't produce any edible raspberries. They were expensive canes when I got them just had 3 years in the ground prior to being sprayed. TC totally unapologetic about it.

The cause of the death of your Raspberries is more likely to be a virus, there are quite a few viruses that result in the rapid death of raspberry canes which is why it is better to buy virus free stock. Unfortunately even if you do and your neighbouring plot holder doesn't then his gets a virus it will eventually be transmitted to yours as well because most viruses are transmitted by a vector e.g. aphids
Raspberry canes usually only last about 7 to 10 years before becoming unproductive and dying off.

I have the dilemma now of how to replant because half my canes are about 7 years old and are dying back but you are supposed to plant on new soil/ new position but I don't have one so I'm not sure what to do.

[artichoke]

Well, my local plot has two rows of raspberries which are flourishing at the moment, no sign of this sudden death so far, and I planted them in about 2001........Every year they have been envied by all.

The five mile away site is the raspberry death problem, and I don't think it is due to spraying, because the council doesn't take much interest and my neighbours have abandoned their plots. I think it is disease, sadly. I am going to abandon these expensive varieties, and stop growing raspberries at that site.