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
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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[NAFEX] Winterkill in Black Raspberries???,
Jim Fruth, 05/23/2009