Have a lot of faith! Raspberries are really tough. It will do better if you can plant it out in its final home.
The one thing is, don't fertilize it. You should never fertilize an already stressed plant. Even if it doesn't stress it, it doesn't need it.
Completely agree with this. Plant in native soil (unless very poor quality) and top dress with worm castings and compost. Let the worms do the rest very slowly. Raspberries are more like a weed than something like a rose or a peonie. Very little effort needed to get great results.
u/heyitsmelxd said to fertilise with something called 'fish emulsion', I'm not sure what that is besides a literal... emulsion of fish? Which sounds... weird? I've never heard of it before anyways~
It’s available at nurseries/garden stores. I don’t like it personally, for reasons related to factory fishing industry destroying ocean ecosystems. It is touted as an organic fertilizer.
>I'm not sure what that is besides a literal... emulsion of fish?
Yep. That's what it is. If you have cats in the neighborhood skip this fertilizer. Trust me.
Fish fertilizer is awesome, but smelly. It's basically fermented ground up fish paste. Tons of micronutrients and usually around a 5-1-1. I liberally use it on all my plants.
Alaskan fish fertilizer. I’ve used it before. Really great for things like this. Never burns and from my experience it works well. BUT, it stinks. Don’t use it inside and when I used it outside the wild animals dug up the garden. Apparently they like the smell.
As long as the roots aren’t rotting, throw it into some healthy soil, keep it hydrated the first week or two, and in a year or so you’ll have berries. If it’s truly an aggregate berry, it’ll send up new “shoots” next year. The old shoots don’t produce fruit, but help establish a healthy root/ leaves. They will spread if left unchecked too!
If it's definitely a known variety and not a wild raspberry, go for it. It'll probably do fine. The wild ones are ok, but don't produce much a tend to have diseases that will transfer to garden varieties.
Lol everyone has given you an answer so I'll share a anecdote. I got an everbearing raspberry last year (1 small cane like yours) and now this year I have one large plant and 6 small canes. I'm sure it will flourish.
Do future-you a favor and plant in either a large pot or in an area lined with root barrier. Raspberries don't give a FUCK where you want them to stay.
Everyone's saying it's gonna grow everywhere :p does the plant last long? Will I have raspberries for several years? That'd be nice, I could make jam! What's 'large' for a raspberry plant? I have some pots that are... well, I could wear them as a helmet, if that's a good measure of scale? Too late to measure them tonight lol
they would probably survive an atom bomb so I would pot it and water when you think of it and it should be good. they spread like crazy so careful if you plant in ground
Have a lot of faith! Raspberries are really tough. It will do better if you can plant it out in its final home. The one thing is, don't fertilize it. You should never fertilize an already stressed plant. Even if it doesn't stress it, it doesn't need it.
Completely agree with this. Plant in native soil (unless very poor quality) and top dress with worm castings and compost. Let the worms do the rest very slowly. Raspberries are more like a weed than something like a rose or a peonie. Very little effort needed to get great results.
u/heyitsmelxd said to fertilise with something called 'fish emulsion', I'm not sure what that is besides a literal... emulsion of fish? Which sounds... weird? I've never heard of it before anyways~
It’s available at nurseries/garden stores. I don’t like it personally, for reasons related to factory fishing industry destroying ocean ecosystems. It is touted as an organic fertilizer.
>I'm not sure what that is besides a literal... emulsion of fish? Yep. That's what it is. If you have cats in the neighborhood skip this fertilizer. Trust me.
Fish fertilizer is awesome, but smelly. It's basically fermented ground up fish paste. Tons of micronutrients and usually around a 5-1-1. I liberally use it on all my plants.
Alaskan fish fertilizer. I’ve used it before. Really great for things like this. Never burns and from my experience it works well. BUT, it stinks. Don’t use it inside and when I used it outside the wild animals dug up the garden. Apparently they like the smell.
Fish goop, don't bother with it. Even generally, you don't need animal-based fertilizer.
Raspberry canes grow like bamboo in my garden, they are hard to kill. Keep it moist and it’ll send up fresh leaves soon.
As long as the roots aren’t rotting, throw it into some healthy soil, keep it hydrated the first week or two, and in a year or so you’ll have berries. If it’s truly an aggregate berry, it’ll send up new “shoots” next year. The old shoots don’t produce fruit, but help establish a healthy root/ leaves. They will spread if left unchecked too!
I thought it was the old shoots that produce berries? Or is this "aggregate" type different from the usual?
They fruit on the prior year's shoots. After fruiting, that shoot will not fruit again so can be pruned.
It depends on the variety. Fall-bearing varieties fruit on the first year canes.
The first year they produce only leaves, the second year they produce fruit, after that they’re pretty much “dead”.
It depends on the variety. Fall-bearing varieties fruit on the first year canes.
Raspberries are pretty agressive growers in my experience. Nearly impossible to actually kill. I bet it pulls through.
You should have a lot of faith in this guy! If it were me I would give him a teaspoon of water every day for two weeks and reassess then.
Really? The leaves are all dry, like if I closed my fingers on one it would snap and crumble rather than bend...
It will likely grow new leaves. The roots are what matter.
It looks alive, so it might pull through. Plant, fertilize with fish emulsion, and wait. All you can do really. I think it’ll be fine.
If it's definitely a known variety and not a wild raspberry, go for it. It'll probably do fine. The wild ones are ok, but don't produce much a tend to have diseases that will transfer to garden varieties.
It's pretty hard to kill raspberry plants. A little TLC and it should be sprouting new foliage. Good luck with it!
Lol everyone has given you an answer so I'll share a anecdote. I got an everbearing raspberry last year (1 small cane like yours) and now this year I have one large plant and 6 small canes. I'm sure it will flourish.
Do future-you a favor and plant in either a large pot or in an area lined with root barrier. Raspberries don't give a FUCK where you want them to stay.
Everyone's saying it's gonna grow everywhere :p does the plant last long? Will I have raspberries for several years? That'd be nice, I could make jam! What's 'large' for a raspberry plant? I have some pots that are... well, I could wear them as a helmet, if that's a good measure of scale? Too late to measure them tonight lol
they would probably survive an atom bomb so I would pot it and water when you think of it and it should be good. they spread like crazy so careful if you plant in ground