Raspberry plants

weedstoner420 said:

Raspberries don't need a whole lot, we just give ours a little top dressing ever year or two, and several inches of leaf mulch and compost in the fall.

Yours are the shortest I think I've ever seen, and they do look a bit stressed. Ours are planted in the ground and grow canes like 5-8 feet tall. Are you able to plant yours directly in the ground?

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BarnBuster said:

I can't tell, are you growing these in containers?

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Growium said:

I might be able to plant in ground if it’s the problem with them in pots. just there big garden pots there in about 11 gal pots. One did have a bad aphids problem which I see a bit late but has came back a lot better then it looked and now I know to keep checking for them.

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weedstoner420 said:

I would wait until they go dormant in the fall to transplant, but yeah, I think they would be happier in the ground. They like to spread horizontally by their roots, and yours look pretty crowded...

Here's the patch in my backyard, just finished their first flush and are about to start the second. They definitely like to spread out but are not that hard to keep contained to one area.
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weedstoner420 said:

OP how'd this turn out? Were you able to put them in the ground?

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Growium said:

I just ended up letting them finish in the pots as a lot of my border has gone now and replaced with paving,Im glad I did wait and now just waiting on some rectangle shallow pots which they are regrowing now in them big plastic pots and quite big.The new pots should be alot more shallow which should hopefully arrive by next week. Added a small cherry and Acer tree in fabric pots which are growing well.

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weedstoner420 said:

Nice! Yeah they like to spread so more surface area is definitely going to help even if you can't put them in the ground directly.

One thing I've noticed with the patch in my yard is they kinda spread outward and didn't really stay filled in in the middle. They're in kind of a rectangular area, started with one cane in the middle, and now 6-7 years later the middle has very few canes and the ends of the rectangle are more full. Not sure why that happened, maybe as we thin out the ends they will move back to the middle, we'll see. We do get some canes popping up in the grass every spring though, sometimes 5-6 feet away from the main patch.

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weedstoner420 said:

Nice! Yeah they like to spread so more surface area is definitely going to help even if you can't put them in the ground directly.

One thing I've noticed with the patch in my yard is they kinda spread outward and didn't really stay filled in in the middle. They're in kind of a rectangular area, started with one cane in the middle, and now 6-7 years later the middle has very few canes and the ends of the rectangle are more full. Not sure why that happened, maybe as we thin out the ends they will move back to the middle, we'll see. We do get some canes popping up in the grass every spring though, sometimes 5-6 feet away from the main patch.

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Growium said:

I think I’m going to leave them this year round in these big pots again, I think i have left it too late and don’t want to damage them. My cherry tree is starting to get some bugs on the leafs which I can’t see being good how should I get rid of theses not 100% sure what they are. Here’s the small acer too.

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weedstoner420 said:

Nice, wasn't sure what you meant by acer, I've always heard them called Japanese maples. Very pretty leaves though...

Looks like your cherry tree has aphids to me. We get them on at least some garden plants every year, different kinds on different plants. They're usually not too hard to keep under control. One trick is to wrap some tape sticky-side-out around your finger, and just sticky them off the leaves and stems. Clear packing tape is best, it's sticky enough to grab the bugs but doesn't harm the leaves. You can get probably 95% of them pretty quick that way, then follow up with something like a neem oil spray to get the rest. Good luck!!

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Growium said:

Thanks will give that a try tmw and see if I have some tape like that if I can’t i might try spray some off with the hose first before useing the neem. Yeah the Acer tree does have colourful leafs can get a few different types and quite easy to grow I got 4 more cuttings I brought I need to plant out.

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