It works with these methods

Different methods of propagation

Red and black summer and Autumn raspberries are propagated in the same way, namely by:

• Root cuttings
• Foothills
• Sinker

You can obtain cuttings directly from the roots of the desired raspberry plant. This gives you the guarantee that you will get exactly that Raspberry variety breed that you want to propagate.

The best time to obtain cuttings is autumn. With the spade cut off a piece of the root. Make sure that enough eyes and fine roots remain on the section.

Divide the root piece into individual cuttings. Each cutting should be about four inches long and have at least five eyes.

Insert root cuttings in autumn

Put the cuttings a few inches deep in the loose soil and cover them with soil.

Spread a mulch blanket made of leaves, straw or bark mulch over it so that the young plants are protected from frost.

In the spring plants The seedlings to the desired location.

Obtain new plants by lowering them

By lowering, the gardener understands that one or more rods of the raspberry bush are placed on the ground, fastened there and covered in places with earth.

In the covered areas, the rods develop roots and later also leaves. They are gouged out in spring and transplanted to the desired location.

Propagation by subsidence works better if you tie the rods with copper wire where they lie underground. As a result, they build up the sap and stimulate the formation of roots.

Special case of black raspberries

Black raspberries are not propagated by root cuttings or by cuttings. To grow new plants, you need to lower the shoot tips in the fall.

The rods are bent down and the tips are placed on humus garden soil. Then cover them with soil. From this, independent plants form over the winter.

They are separated from the tail in the spring and planted in the desired location.

Use raspberry runners

If your raspberries have formed a lot of runners, you can easily grow new raspberry bushes from them.

You dig up the runners and make sure that they are adequately rooted. Then put them in a prepared bed on a sunny spot Location.

However, you should only use this method if you only have one variety of raspberry in your garden. Otherwise you may get offshoots of varieties that you did not want to propagate in the first place.

Tips & Tricks

If you Autumn raspberries propagate by cuttings or runners, you can already harvest some fruits in the next year. With summer raspberries, it takes a year longer for new raspberries to grow on the young plants.