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ok, wtf. last years latham yellow rasberries (Original Post) mopinko Jul 2014 OP
Ya got any bees around there??? elleng Jul 2014 #1
Do they ever graft rasberry plants? Curmudgeoness Jul 2014 #2
Yes - busy bees, seeds dropped...new plants are the F1 hybrid. NRaleighLiberal Jul 2014 #3
def not grafted. mopinko Jul 2014 #5
How do they taste? n/t TygrBright Jul 2014 #4
ok, but the yellows were amazing. mopinko Jul 2014 #6
crawled around this patch picking mopinko Jul 2014 #7
Is there such a thing as a bad tasting raspberry? hedgehog Jul 2014 #8
absolutely not. mopinko Jul 2014 #9
I had a terrible result with berries this year - I planted 9 raspberries and 6 blackberries hedgehog Jul 2014 #10

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
2. Do they ever graft rasberry plants?
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 08:26 PM
Jul 2014

When that happens to roses, it is because the graft died and the root stock put up a plant. But I know nothing of how raspberries are cultured.

If it were me, I would go back to where I bought them and ask them WTF is going on.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,500 posts)
3. Yes - busy bees, seeds dropped...new plants are the F1 hybrid.
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 08:28 PM
Jul 2014

Other possibility - the yellow is a hybrid, seeds dropped, and you get segregation into parents, cousins, etc.

And final possibility is what was stated astutely above - growth from a rootstock if the plants were grafted.

mopinko

(71,802 posts)
5. def not grafted.
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 07:27 AM
Jul 2014

grown from a couple bareroots.
dont think these are seeded plants. these would be the fall canes from last year. only had the one crop from them so far. never known raspberries to come up from seed, but...

but they are ALL purple now.
these are fine tasting, but those yellows were amazing.

mopinko

(71,802 posts)
7. crawled around this patch picking
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 08:37 AM
Jul 2014

there are a few yellow bearing canes so far.
damn. those were so good.

mopinko

(71,802 posts)
9. absolutely not.
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 09:19 AM
Jul 2014

just have a little thing here on the farm about color, and foods that are beautiful as well as delicious. and those yellow ones were both.

and the red ones i planted are insane. i planted 3 quart pots of them on my hugelpile last spring. i guess this thing is a good idea, because i have a 3' thick, 20' long hedge of the things now. i have to pull them out.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
10. I had a terrible result with berries this year - I planted 9 raspberries and 6 blackberries
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 09:26 AM
Jul 2014

The planting bed may have been too"hot" - I might have had too much chicken manure in the mix. Also - the chickens pulled out some of the blackberries. I had to leave for 6 weeks, when I got back there was no sign of the blackberry plants and only some bare sticks with no roots for the raspberries.

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