I planted some raspberry plants earlier this year and it produced a few raspberries this year...
Kinda strange, as they all seem to be developing differently. For example, I planted two Anne raspberry plants. One of them is around two feet tall, and it's sprouting multiple branches going in different directions. It also sprouted a baby cane nearby. So far, it's yielded nothing.
The second Anne raspberry plant is still about a foot tall, and it doesn't have as many branches or canes, as the aforementioned. However, it yielded 7 or 8 berries. It kinda tastes like mango, but tart.
Then I have two Caroline raspberry plants, but one of them just died. The other is very short and barely alive... maybe one foot tall, and it sprouted extremely small berries - about 5 or 6. The size of the berries were smaller than a dime... the berries from the Anne were like six times bigger.
Also, the Caroline raspberries were very tart... if I bought them from a store, I would've thought they were just poor quality. But recently, the Caroline raspberry cane yielded two more berries, and while they were still extremely small, they were much sweeter than the initial harvest.
So my questions are...
1. What affects the sweetness of raspberries?
2. What affects the size of raspberries? Does it have anything to do with what I'm doing? Soil? Weather? Watering? What's the primary factor?
Thanks!
Kinda strange, as they all seem to be developing differently. For example, I planted two Anne raspberry plants. One of them is around two feet tall, and it's sprouting multiple branches going in different directions. It also sprouted a baby cane nearby. So far, it's yielded nothing.
The second Anne raspberry plant is still about a foot tall, and it doesn't have as many branches or canes, as the aforementioned. However, it yielded 7 or 8 berries. It kinda tastes like mango, but tart.
Then I have two Caroline raspberry plants, but one of them just died. The other is very short and barely alive... maybe one foot tall, and it sprouted extremely small berries - about 5 or 6. The size of the berries were smaller than a dime... the berries from the Anne were like six times bigger.
Also, the Caroline raspberries were very tart... if I bought them from a store, I would've thought they were just poor quality. But recently, the Caroline raspberry cane yielded two more berries, and while they were still extremely small, they were much sweeter than the initial harvest.
So my questions are...
1. What affects the sweetness of raspberries?
2. What affects the size of raspberries? Does it have anything to do with what I'm doing? Soil? Weather? Watering? What's the primary factor?
Thanks!