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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Winterkill in Black Raspberries???
  • Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:01:19 -0500

Michael Dossett wrote, ""Winterkill" is a problem with black raspberries wherever they are grown."

I don't think I can agree with the word "wherever". Sure I have unsprouted canes here and there but the problem is never wide-spread. None of the folks that I've sold plants to have ever mentioned winter-killed plants either. Could it be the variety(s) that your people have that are the problem? Everyone here has the Pequot Black Raspberry.
My plants seem to live eight to ten years and I replace 10 to 15% of them every year. There is one exception though: I have a patch with virus infected plants that have outlived all other plants. These are my most productive except that the berries have too few druplets to be worth picking. Not picking them takes the bird pressure off the other areas. I've not replaced them also to try and figure out how the virus spreads, a mystery that has baffled me for some years now. The virus doesn't seem to be spread via vectors because adjacent healthy plants don't get infected. So what else?

Jim Fruth
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Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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