when I got my plot I 'inherited' some raspberries so I don't know how old they are.
At one end are what I would call 'proper' rasps. At the other end are what I thought were maybe a hybrid like Tayberry.
However it seems to me that over the last 5 years the Tayberry type are taking over and working there way along the row so there is only a small amount of proper Rasps. left.
Does anyone know if Rasps. revert back to wild type over the years ?
Thanks,
Gail
Absolutely no idea! Come on someone, somebody out there must know?!?!?
I've grown rapberries for a long time and none have reverted back to anythging else.
I grow several types - the one already on my plot fruits in June/earlyJuly (don't know the name) , and then I have Glen Ample which is a week or two later and you cut the fruited stems down after fruiting and leave the new canes for next year on those two.
Then I have Joan J and Autumn Bliss which start mid July through to September. You cut them down in November and so there's not much there at all and then they fruit on the new growth that comes up in Spring the next year.
Maybe the tayberries just like the conditions better. I can't see how it would be possible for them to revert.
Thanks,the tayberries type are much more vigorous plants so maybe they are sending up suckers that I never noticed.
They taste good regardless
Gail. ;)
What do you reakon on Glen Ample jennym? I have been very pleased with them - this being their first year. Plenty of very big fruits over a fairly long period. Now I need to get some autumn canes to prolong things!
Tayberries do have a great flavour. Slightly more perfumed than raspberries.
Glen Ample - nice big fruits I agree - just had some this evening with cream.
I have read somewhere that it is now easy to buy some varieties with really long canes - I did see some being grown commercially on a fruit farm when I was at college - so I'm going to look out for them. They must have been 5 or 6 feet tall.
I'va also got a yellow one but can't find the name and only had two fruits off it this year (tasted Ok though). I hope to get more next year, as they looked pretty.