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[kim m <fruitgrowing101@gmail.com>]

The best varieties that work for us in a Zone 3 climate are

 

Red River: Medium red berries, canes sparsely spined, earliest cultivar.

Double Delight: Small, medium-red firm fruit, early.

Summit: Small to medium size, medium-red color fruit, canes have a few scattered spines.

Autumn Bliss: Large, oval conical, dark red berries, canes spiny and erect.

 

http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/fruit/pdf/blc01s01.pdf

 

http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/fruit/pdf/blc01s01.pdf

 

http://www.northscaping.com/infozone/FS-0016/FS-0016.shtml

 

Red River and Double Delight are worth trying if you live in a zone 3 climate .

 

See the attached links

 

Cheers

 

Kim Maser Canadian Sources Nafex

Zone 3b

Sherwood Park, Alberta

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com> wrote:

Primocane fruiting plants bear on first year canes (i.e. primocanes).  Typically the cane will come up in the spring, and once it reaches a certain (genetically predetermined) number of nodes of growth it initiates flower buds from the tip of the cane downward.  These then bloom and fruit, with the fruit typically ripening in late summer and fall.

 

A floricane is a second year cane i.e. one that has overwintered once.  Plants that are floricane fruiting send up new canes in the spring, and don't initiate flower buds until cued by shorter daylength and cooler temperatures in late summer and fall.  These flower buds remain dormant along with the rest of the cane until spring, when they flower with the fruit ripening in the summer.  Traditionally floricane fruiting cultivars have been termed summer-fruiting while primocane fruiting cultivars (which incidentally also fruit on the lower half of their floricanes) have been termed everbearing or fall-fruiting.

 

Hope this helps any confusion.

 

Michael

 

Michael Dossett Corvallis, Oregon www.Mdossettphoto.com phainopepla@yahoo.com

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Diane Porter <dporter@lisco.com> wrote:

From: Diane Porter <dporter@lisco.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Heritage
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 2:23 PM

What are primocane/floricane fruiters?

Diane Porter

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On Feb 21, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Michael Dossett wrote:

 

 I don't think the flavor of any of the primocane fruiters is as good as the best floricane fruiters but until recently there weren't many primocane fruiting options out there for people to choose from so I think it has been viewed with less importance.  Hopefully this is changing, though primocane fruiting raspberry breeding has now been shifted in large part with a focus on those genotypes adapted to growing in California and Mexico with low chilling and hot summers.  There is interest in breeding primocane fruiters for elsewhere as well, just not nearly to the same level and I think they still play second fiddle to summer fruiters in most areas.

 

Michael

 

Michael Dossett Corvallis, Oregon www.Mdossettphoto.com phainopepla@yahoo.com

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