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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Thanks to all who replied.  I looked more closely last night, and it appears that only one of the stalks even has a bud on it - clearly the vendor expected them to send up new shoots from the roots, rather than bud out from the above-ground portion.  It appears a second one may be sending up a shoot as well.  

My established raspberries break bud a few weeks before new shoots emerge, and the new Caroline is only about a week behind the established Fall Red for new shoots, which wouldn't be unusual for a different cultivar with different winter experience.  So I'm going to give it a little longer and hope they all sprout.

Ginda 

Eastern MA, zone 6

On May 16, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

You might still get something from the roots.  Raspberries are propagated from root cuttings and the roots will take a lot of abuse and still grow.  It does take longer as they have to generate buds and push shoots from below the soil line. I worked at a berry nursery one time and they saved all the root trimmings when they bundled raspberry plants.  Those were stored in a cooler for several months, then planted.  They just dug a trench and dropped in handsful of roots.  Each clump put up good numbers of shoots.

-Lon Rombough

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On May 16, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Brungardt, Sam wrote:

Seems like you should be seeing green on all the plants by now, Ginda.

I'd suspect the plants may have been dried out when you received them.

About 2-3 weeks ago I planted some Caroline raspberries I got mail order

and every one of them is showing new growth, some from the one

year-old-canes and some from buds on the roots.  I'd ask them to replace

the plants that have not shown green yet. -- Sam Brungardt (St. Paul,

Minn.)

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