Summer Fruiting Raspberries

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Hello everyone.
I've inherited some SFR's planted in the ground and in a cage. They were not pruned back after fruiting last year and are presently 5ft high and sprouting leaf. Any thoughts or advice? There are also Autumn fruiting plants, in the same cage of the same height too.
I've inherited some SFR's planted in the ground and in a cage. They were not pruned back after fruiting last year and are presently 5ft high and sprouting leaf. Any thoughts or advice? There are also Autumn fruiting plants, in the same cage of the same height too.
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David, are the summer fruiting ones single canes with sideshoots just developing or do they already have woody sideshoots? If the latter, they probably weren't pruned after fruiting last year. If you have a mixture of both, I would remove the fruited canes now and leave the straight ones as those will fruit this year. The fruited ones may well fruit again but with low yield so remove to renovate and encourage new shoots to form from the base which will carry next year's crop.
Given the recent weather I think you have probably been lucky and can still cut the autumn fruiting ones to the ground (this is usually done in Feb.) as mine have hardy started sprouting from the roots yet. This type grows from nothing and fruits the same year. If you leave them, they will produce an early crop (probably earlier than the summer fruiting ones) but the 'proper' late crop will be much smaller.