first i would like to thank very generous member for raspberries. very good roots and the plants are very fresh. just watered and resting under the shade. had bit of super thrive to help perk up :) 

 

What is super thrive and why do you use it

super thrive is... not sure what it is, but it's used to reduce transplant shock. some says it works, some say it's snake oil. i tried it and it seems to help. 

what difference a day makes! i know it's hard to see it here on the photo, but all the canes are now straight and most of the leaves look good. the tips with new growth looks like they are going to do something soon. 

i'm looking forward to them :) 

 

Those really perked up. Looks like they should make it!

yellow raspberry Anne putting on new leaves :) 

 

SuperThrive is basically vitamins & hormones and does great for preventing/treating stressed plants.  Your plants made a great comeback, Pete!  Nice job!

Hi bullet08,
I see you're trialling different fruits and berries . You could try Elaeagnus x ebbingei berries.
They are nothing to die for, but their berries are ripe now here .
Because of that out of season ripeness, they thought they were worth the try, IMO.
I planted a small tree -30 cm of height - last September, and I already have ripe berries now .
Elaeagnus x ebbingeiis is a medium sized tree that is used near the fences to stop people from watching inside your garden. This tree does not lose her leaves in winter.
I'm trialling these trees as wind chill breakers for the fig trees - to block wind-chill effects with a useful tree - so basically they are part of my winter protections.

- I'm sure you'll find a place for them :)

Visiting a neighbour, I noticed a vine like berry with no thorns, and asked what was...like all giving gardner, he started pulling a branch off for me, while telling me the story... a guy who travel to N. California, every summer got berries from a farmer and started selling 'special pies' from these special berries...then he got plants and started a big berry planting and more pies...  Not sure if it is a tale, or not, but I got my branch and will make it root in many others... It is a strain of Boysenberry... thornless.   I feel lucky!

Hi Grasa,
How old is yours ? Has it already fruited or blossomed this year ? Mine are now opening their flowers .

My thornless boysenberry is less productive than the one with thorns .
The one with thorns has clusters of lets say 6 flowers, when the thornless has no clusters and makes flowers one by one or max up to three but never more.
Here boysenberries will be ripe one month sooner than blackberries, in the beginning of July .
I really appreciate my boysenberries/loganberries.

Congrats on getting your raspberries Pete, looks like you did the right thing with the super thrive, they look great.

grasa, i heard about Boysenberry, tho never really paid too much attention to them until this spring. i was at local whole food on sat. afternoon. they have bunch of blueberry, raspberry and blackberry plants out front. i really need to start fertilizing mine. needs some growth on all of my plants. 

tamin, thanks. i read about superthrive from dennis sometime ago, but never used it. just let it sit on the shelf. i thought it might help, and it seems it's doing its job :) 

All I've learned from various gardeners at my p patch and from my readings is that you have to prune it to incentive lateral branches, fruiting near the crown, if you let it grow it trails forever and it is not productive as it has the potential to be.  I just got my cuttings yesterday.