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Wed, Sep 24, 14 at 14:26
| Well it's not much, and not ripe yet, but it will have a very small fall crop first year planted. I'm excited about this one. Berries are the biggest blacks I have seen. I made a mistake and cut other cane, it had two canes only. Well that split into three laterals, but at the top, and no fruit. I'm going to have to figure out how to prune this one.  |
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- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Wed, Sep 24, 14 at 14:42
| Interesting...and very late! Weather looks great the next few weeks for most of the country, so should have plenty of sun/warmth to ripen them. Might have to add that. I'm still get a ton of gold raspberries, along with plenty of reds... |
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You know my golds are slow this fall. The reds are doing great! No complaints! Monday's harvest, includes a trickle of strawberries. Nourse Farms will be selling Niwot next year. Oh I talked to the breeder and he said the first year the fall crop can be very late, even too late. But it is not. And may develop earlier next year. Double Gold, and Rosanna are still all green for me. Looks like some years I will only get a summer crop on those. As you said weather looks good, i should get a crop this year. At least I will berries till the frost comes! I think in 2 weeks they will be ready. Hopefully a week, but they are slow to ripen, they are getting bigger, just really slowly!  |
This post was edited by Drew51 on Wed, Sep 24, 14 at 14:57
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| Niwot looks cool...make sure you weight them so we can compare notes. My double gold are still several weeks away from ripening. |
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- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Wed, Sep 24, 14 at 18:28
| I have to dig around and see what golds i'm growing... I think I bought them at Home Depot or someplace like that...so i might have lost the container they came in... All i know is i had a small summer crop and a bumper fall crop. Caroline are fantastic this year for me.... Only issue is i have to hack them back hard every year or they spread too much. |
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| I have almost every yellow around, all are just doing OK, not great. last year was a lot better. Summer crops were moderate too, Last year the summer crop was huge! As was the fall crop. it might be the extreme cold from last winter set them back, not sure what's going on? I have them in 2 locations, so it's not location. Caroline, Polka and Prelude are exploding for me. Himbo Top too, it's always been a heavy producer. Caroline and Polka are the best tasting. Crimson Night is super sweet but a shy producer. My wife's favorite. |
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| For Niwot black raspberry pruning ideas, please refer to my pruning file at http://home.comcast.net/~ptallman/PPprune1.pdf Pete Tallman |
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| Thanks Pete, Your Niwots are on my list for next spring. |
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| I couldn't weigh the berries, but they all finished and ripened. Pretty good size, taste was OK, hard to judge without other blacks around. Plus plant is new. From memory I like Jewell better, but taste is subjective. |
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| They have an excellent size Drew. Those are the largest blacks I've seen. |
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| The fall crop berry size is large, the summer crop is more normal. Very cool Pete Chimed in! Thanks for the help Pete! Pete gave me some advice on how to breed raspberries. A PDF file on all you need to know. Very helpful, I used techniques from the file on a cross I'm doing now. Very helpful on pollination to germination techniques. Anybody need it, pm me. |
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