A Breeder/Grower's Note on Cane Pruning

Do not use one generic pruning rule for every berry cultivar. Some varieties fruit on second-year canes, while others can fruit on first-year growth. Keep the cultivar name with the plant and prune according to its fruiting habit.

About This Variety

Rubus idaeus 'Williamette' FEATURES Willamette Raspberry plants are quite popular with both home gardeners and commercial growers, this June-bearing variety produces abundant crops of extremely large, dark red berries. Firm and juicy, with a hint of tartness, they are delicious eaten fresh and great for freezing. Raspberry plants can fruit on different types of canes, and these are categorized into primocane and floricane.

Both primocane (first year) fruiting and floricane (second year) fruiting raspberries have both primocanes and floricanes growing from the plant after the first year. Floricane fruiting varieties have primocanes that grow throughout the first year and do not produce fruit. Primocane fruiting varieties have primocanes that produce flowers and fruit the first year, and then the remaining cane will overwinter and fruit again the second year.

Pruning needs differ for these types of plants to be productive. CHARACTERISTICS Plant Type: Floricane Type: June Bearing Flower Color: Pink Habit: Upright Bushy Spacing: 6 Feet Spread: 4 - 6 Feet Ripening Time: June Container Roll: Fruit Production Taste: Sweet-tart Plant Height: 6 Feet Foliage Colors: Green Yield: 2+ Lbs. Common Names: Raspberry Bush Raspberry Plant Polination Requirement: Self Fertile Attracts: Polinators Bees Butterflies Resists: Deer Drought Clay Black Walnut PLANT NEEDS Light Requirement: Full Sun Maintenance Category: Easy Blooms On: Last Years Growth Bloom Time: May to June Hardiness Zones: Perennial in Zones 5 - 9 Find Your Hardiness Zone Watering Needs: Average Water regularly - weekly, or more often in extreme heat or containers.

Uses: Landscape, Berry Farms Patented: No This plant is in the public domain.