When is it best to remove excess shoots from raspberries and how to do it right

Removal of unnecessary shoots in raspberry plants contributes to the development, improve the quality and quantity of fruit. However, to this kind of care should be taken carefully and competently. There are many nuances, which are known not all gardeners.

The reasons that should be removed shoots

The first berries raspberries appear the next year after planting a seedling. Exceptions are remontant varieties. In the second year of fruitful shoots lose the ability to fruit.

Spring growth creates a density in the planting, the sun's rays penetrate poorly to the main run.

In addition to the growth and development of new shoots spent useful microelements. The result is a decrease in the amount of berries.

New shoots, as a rule, do not bear fruit, unviable, and therefore can not withstand the winter cold, and die. In such a situation, the question of their removal becomes obvious.

In any season you need to remove the shoots

Raspberry needs constant care:

· spring podmerzshie removed, weak and broken shoots, whereupon it will be possible to determine the quantity to remaining shoots. They will be the basis for the next harvest;

· summer withexplores otplodonosivshie remove twigs, berries after harvest. Benefit from them will be gone, they will only take the power, that is to serve as an ordinary weed;

· In the autumn cut stems, the life of which has ended. Leaves a strong and young shoots, some of which were taken in the spring for fruiting.

Such seasonal manipulations are necessary to ensure a good harvest.

How to remove undergrowth from raspberries

Shoots that appeared in the first year of life of the plant, and should not be left on. They are removed, leaving above the ground no more than three centimeters. New shoots should be shortened to 17 cm.

Such manipulations should be done in late autumn, when the plant is "asleep."

Besides the remaining stumps easier to warm in the case of low temperatures. Autumn pruning not only contributes to a good harvest, but also protects the plant from possible diseases, parasites and viruses.

If there are no plans to transplant the bushes, the root growth is completely removed.

In the spring of all the potential harvest the shoots should be cut off from the crown to the first healthy kidneys. To prolong fruiting can be shortened escape to different lengths: one at 15 centimeters, the other 20. Berry will mature serially, depending on the length of cropped tops.

In the summer, when it detects the sick branches, they are removed at the root, but so as not to damage the entire root system as a whole.