Biobombe wrote:Rust COHLE wrote:What I do know is that for fruit trees, for example, curved branches start to bear fruit more and more quickly, as in trellised forms or palmettes, but can this be transposed to raspberries?
I would be tempted to say yes, without a proven scientific basis or personal test because never had a raspberry, but the principle being to slow down the flow of sap by bending the branch or the cane of the raspberry tree so that the wood buds turn into buds fruit (are there differentiated buds, wood and fruit, on the raspberry tree?), it could possibly work ...
For a fruit tree we can indeed accelerate the setting of fruit by bending branches / twigs: these are arches.
This makes it possible to calm the pressure of the raw sap in favor of the developed sap.
But a raspberry tree has a lifespan of one year! Everything is happening quickly and in my opinion the verticality of the plants is optimal for a quick fruit setting.
then I will add that you have to see what you expect from your raspberries in terms of production, either you have the place to put in number or not, if you have the place, forcing the production makes no sense the number will be enough, the father of a friend planted a large orchard, we harvested fruit but we left so much that even by doing nothing we have a super surplus production
if you don't have the room, wanting to compensate by trying to boost a few feet is also ridiculous, it's a lot of work for not much
a pro will always try to optimize because it is his livelihood
I have a mulberry tree, last year I made 24 jars of jams, so much the better I didn't have many other fruits, this year I had mirabelles, blue plums, quinces, apples, rhubarb so j 've already made 12 pots of blackberries but I succeeded in my goal of autonomy
in jam 52 jars in the cellar, and yet I still have blackberries all the rhubarb and more plums so I will still make a few jars to diversify and ensure autonomy, you never know if my consumption of jam increased, but it I will have to find other outlets for its fruits knowing that next year's production will be even higher and more diversified
so don't worry too much, at my mother's house we tore up all the raspberries to build a fence wall, the wall is finished and it pushed back raspberries and by doing absolutely nothing, my mother harvested more than one kilo of raspberries, well she saved a kilo of raspberries since most of the time they were eaten directly on the feet, next year there will be even more raspberries and therefore more raspberries, it is safe from wind I think we will do nothing more than harvest