History Of Raspberry Plants

Posted by Gerald Hernandez on October 19th, 2016

According to Luther Burbank, who studied and hybridized raspberries and blackberries more than any other horticulturalist, and wrote his classical 8 volume treatise on Small Fruits and Fruit Improvement in 1921; the red raspberry plant was cultivated in Europe for centuries, growing wild from Greece to Spain and to the North from Norway to Sweden.

Red Raspberry, Rubus idaeus, is a native berry bush to Turkey and was gathered by the people inhabiting Troy, (Troas, Turkey) from vines growing at the foothills there in the first century B.C

The Romans spread the seed of raspberries throughout their empire as evidenced by seed of the raspberry vine in archaeological excavations in England that demonstrate that the English were gardeners growing richly with raspberry vines and raspberry bushes.

Raspberry has been hybridized with various  Click here to know more details jordgubbar plants to produce the boysenberry and loganberry. The loganberry was a hybrid cross between the California dewberry and the red raspberry. The 'Phenominal Berry' was a cross between a dewberry and an arctic raspberry that Burbank hybridized in 1905.

Luther Burbank made hybrid crosses between the strawberry plant and the raspberry plant that resulted in a hybrid bush, completely thornless, but the fruit produced on 2-5 ft canes was not good enough quality to succeed as a commercial raspberry.

The raspberry bush or vine grows up to 3 feet in height, and the berry when picked easily separates completely from the stem, requiring no further cleaning or preparation before eating. Wild raspberries are an important wildlife berry for animals and birds to eat, when they ripen in the summer and fall. Raspberries are best marketed by pick-your-own operations, due to the short shelf life, but the demand for raspberries has increased to a point that the berries are flown in by refrigerated air freight to satisfy to the demand for the raspberry.

The growth habit of raspberries can be described as trailing raspberry vines or as erect, upright canes. Many raspberry cultivars produce a non-bearing cane the first year, that flowers and grows berries during the second season. This non-bearing cane is called a Primocane. Ever bearing raspberry plants can bear two crops per year, one crop in the spring and the second crop in the fall. The ever bearing raspberry bushes can produce a crop the first season in the fall on primocanes. Popular everbearing raspberry bushes and vines are: Heritage red raspberry, Autumn Bliss and Amity red raspberries. The roots of raspberries are shallow and may require some supplemental watering during dry periods. The raspberries may be harvested by hand or by machine and frequent picking is required every 3-4 days over a period of several weeks.

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