While growing Red Raspberries against a trellis, tie the healthiest primocanes to the supports and cut all others.

Perform trimming in spring to remove frost-damaged canes from last winter.

Remove the damaged, weak-looking, or diseased canes, as they have the chance of getting infected by pests and diseases the most.

Make the spacious area around the plant by cutting the current year’s canes while leaving 6 healthy canes on the bush.

Avoid the healthy-green primocanes while pruning Red Raspberries, and trim only the spent floricanes.

Harvest the fruits before pruning and prune the buds to have fewer but bigger fruits.

Collect all the debris and place them for composting.īefore pruning, strip the plant away of all the ripe berries, work your way from the top to the base, and remove all the spent or old canes.

Take each cane by hand and cut the entire bush to the ground with disinfected gear.

For fall-bearers, sort out the canes from which you have recently picked the fruits.

Pruning Everbearing Raspberries (Fall-Bearers)

Better to cut back all the way to the ground level if there is too much overcrowding.

Take each of the floricanes and snip off 2-3 inches from the top using sterilized pruners.

For summer-bearers, select the canes that look old and brown (spent floricanes).

The methods for pruning summer Raspberries and fall Raspberries are almost identical. After the first year’s growth, primocane develops flowers and fruits, converting them into floricane. However, fall-bearers require pruning when primocanes suffer leaf fallouts and the stem develops thick brown bark. So, you must prune the Red Raspberries (summer-bearers) during early spring.įor pruning Everbearing Raspberries (fall-bearers), aim late winter.Īdditionally, both varieties show different signs of pruning.įor summer-bearers, it is necessary to prune the spent floricanes. Ripe berries in the Raspberry plant may indicate that it needs plucking and pruning!įurthermore, each Raspberry varieties have distinct ‘trim-tables.’

Sporadic pruning results in the overgrowth of canes, competition between the canes for sunlight and nutrients, and death of lower portions in leaves and buds.

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