I have JoanJ most looking very bonny though rather frustrating since fruit has set but not ripening.
But one plant right in the middle of the clump has died. It is about an eight inch diameter ring of stems. Has anyone any suggestions. It is on a slight slope so actually well drained.
Our autumn raspberries are on flat ground, where some of the time the water table is quite high, being at the bottom of the valley. However our summer weather in SW France can be hot and dry for some days on end (as now) and we find it impossible to know whether we should be watering them or not. A couple of years ago we went through a very dry late spring, and we watered them a lot. Leaves started to go brown, and lots of individual canes began to fall over, clearly dying. I remember ringing Ken Muir, soft fruit specialists, to ask for advice and possible reasons. I was told that these symptoms could equally be from too much watering or not enough water! I can say though that the next year they all came up, and have been very good ever since.
It would be quite easy for them to have got too much water this year. I do hope that is it, and the problem will not spread. I am slightly worried about Aminopyralid because four years ago that area was manured but none of the leaves of anything including the weeds are showing signs of curling. The leaves go yellow and the leaf veins go dark brown, while AP damage they stay green but rather stunted.
Worried it is root rot which I think is a fungal infection. Has anyone else suffered from this.
I have Joan J Raspberries and this year its all growth and up to now no fruit I also have 3 that have given up the ghost, They are on a gentle sploe and in previous year have produce lots of fruit. The only thing I can put it down to is too much rain.