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| Well, i finally picked my first Nantahala Red Raspberry AKA Sweet Repeat and i think it's my best tasting raspberry to date, about the same as Taylor but a little more kick of raspberry flavor.....considering it's Oct 28th and i got my first berry today i'm lucky as Real Cold is on the way so how these late season varieties fair with frosty weather coming we will have to wait and see, my other varieties that are growing and flowering still because of immature plant size and or late spring plantings are: Double Gold: still flowering & starting green berries Crimson Giants: still flowering & some green berries Caroline: flowering & starting green berries Polka: still flowering and giving me a berry here & there Autumn Britten: about spent, 1 or 2 more berries Josephine: still flowering and giving up berries almost daily Fall & Kiwi Gold's: almost done, we'll carry into November Prelude: almost done, non stop berries since June ! Nantahala was cultivated to be a very late season raspberry just like Crimson Giants so we'll see how late they can put out. Below is pic of my first ever Nantahala Red Raspberry....wow ! |
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| Cool, I'm going to have to try that one down the road. I sometimes think first impressions are misleading. I thought Rosanna tasted fantastic, and then thought maybe it was just because it was new? I had another taste and I'm pleased to say, no it's good! But it is a very shy producer. All the same, I'm keeping it. |
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- Posted by gnomeabram SE Wisconsin 5B (My Page) on Wed, Oct 29, 14 at 0:00
| My Jaclyn and Caroline plants were unaffected by 3 frosts and 1 hard freeze, but the 2nd hard freeze seems to be taking a noticeable toll on the leaves. Fortunately about 95% of the berries have already been picked, but one Jaclyn cane is full of large berries that are still ripening. Overall I'm very happy with my first crop of fall raspberries. |
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| Awesome gnomeabram! I saved about 20 quarts for this winter. I was getting about 60 a day when peaking. As much as 80 some days. Our first hard freeze is coming Friday or Saturday. Bummer! I still have about 5 quarts of strawberries from June. I'll make jam with them soon. With the raspberries I like to coat them in chocolate, amazing! Great when guests come over. I dip the frozen berries, and it works well. They stay cold, and taste great! I also make syrups or use in baking, like scones, or other goodies. |
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- Posted by gnomeabram SE Wisconsin 5B (My Page) on Wed, Oct 29, 14 at 21:00
| I ended up with just under 5 gallon-sized bags full of berries this fall, with less than one gallon of summer (royalty) berries this year due to the harsh winter (normally get 6-12 gallons). All of it gets turned into jam sooner or later! |
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| I have blackberries, strawberries, mulberries, and currants to use for jam. So I usually use very little raspberries for jam. I did make some raspberry jam this year. Sometimes blueberry I grow them too. I could have saved a lot more raspberries but my wife eats about 40 a day! Hard to save many! |
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- Posted by fruitful412 PA 6 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 30, 14 at 21:02
| I'm still getting about a quart a day of my fall crop, which consists of a combination of Caroline, Anne, Fall Gold, and Double Gold, about 30' of row total. However, I must say that I'm rather disappointed with the Double Gold. I wanted to try them because of their unique color, and last year I only got one berry before the frost killed them off. This year I have about 4 quarts in the freezer (for the most interesting-colored wine ever, I hope!), and they've been painfully slow. Also I didn't expect the tall canes (as advertised) to be so tall! I have two that are topping out at 9'. (Picking raspberries on a stepladder?) But the fruit is very small and literally rots on the plant about 50% of the time before I pick it. Does anyone else have this problem? My other berries are doing super, so it's not the soil or local conditions, at least I hope not. The Fall Gold berries are huge! I'm going to expand my plantings of those for next year. They spread like crazy anyway and I have so many requests to pick them from friends. |
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| fruitful412, I have also been a little disappointed with Double Gold. I like the color, but I find the flavor to be just decent (in comparison to my other raspberries). Then again, I haven't actually tried that many since my 3 y.o. loves them and gobbles the vast majority of them. My Double Gold canes topped out at a little over 7 feet. I tend to get a mix of berry sizes, some dinky and some larger. The smaller berries do seem to have a tendency to rot on those rainy fall days. |
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| I have not had any rot problems. My canes are only 4-5 feet, but it is against an east wall, only getting morning light. Production is low, berries tend to be small, not all. Taste is decent, low acid, which is really not my favorite. Overall though it's not a great cultivar. I expect more out of the NY programs. Rather disappointing. Encore and Prelude are out of the NY programs and have good taste, Caroline is better, but only slightly, very vigorous, medium berries but consistent size, both good producers, overall excellent plants. Why I tried Double Gold, and Crimson Night. CN is similar to DG, but berry size is better. A low acid type. |
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- Posted by meredith_e 7B Piedmont NC (My Page) on Wed, Nov 5, 14 at 19:07
| I have Caroline and one that is either Rosanna or Bababerry, but I lost the label so I can't remember which. Caroline was excellent! I let it get very ripe, and it's amazing how good raspberries can be. Rosanna-or-Baba wasn't as flavor-packed, and it rotted as the berries got really ripe the way I like them. Our weather has been cool, though, so ripening has been very slow. It was their first crop each, and probably late. I have lots of unripe berries still. |
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