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Now let's talk about raspberries. Pruning raspberries involves a certain amount of brutality
and in fact we're going to have to kill a lot of these canes. If you have neighbors
that are looking for canes you can rip them up and spring transplant them. You don't even
need a lot of ceremony; you can just rip them up and replant them. These are very special,
they're not red, they're not purple, they're golden. We find them especially pest free
and easy to produce. Now the goal in pruning this patch is to leave a small percentage,
maybe 30 or 20% of these canes intact which means that I have hundreds of canes that need
cutting. So what I'm going to do is in my mind I'm going to choose some of these mature
beautiful canes that have growth ready for they're second year in fruiting and everything
else, anything that doesn't meet the grade in the path, in the way, not big enough, old
and dead. You see I'm finding excuses to cut everything but the champs, this being a champ
here. This ones broken and crossing, out it comes. This ones old and dead, out it comes.
This ones in the path, out it comes. When I finish I'll be left with a stand of beautiful
mature canes and then this will fruit this year, and die off and then this years growth
will become next years fruiting canes. And that's a little primer on pruning your golden
raspberries.