how's it going everyone, now raspberries are definitely one of my favorite fruits
but they are very expensive to buy even as plants a few nurses around here I've
noticed that they're like can be over ten dollars for one plant but when you do
have a plant they produce lots of other suckers which is a great way to increase
your stock and that way you can also give some way to family and friends or if
you want you can sell them as well and today I'm going to show you how you can
remove those suckers and pot them up to produce more plants okay so these are
all the suckers of the plant around here so as you can see there is a large group
of them just clustered around here and the mother plant is just around this way
this is it here so it's probably around ten different suckers here so just going
to first clear out some of the grass and it's gotten in here then just go take a
sharp shovel put on a slight angle dig straight down just leave it up a bit
just pull them up see this one got a good amount of root
on that one that's what you want now the good thing about raspberry suckers are
that they are so tough so you can be pretty rough with them because they're
pretty hard to kill
so it's just started raining here so I can't quite pot up the raspberries yes
but even just after you come out make sure you keep you in a container of
water it's just keep them hydrated and stops
them from drying out okay so when you're putting up your eyes worries just need
some deep containers I'll prefer to use these sort of ones if I have them but
you know I've got a lot of these so I'll use them as well so it's going to be
taking one of the suckers such as this one I'll be putting it into this pot I'm
just going to measure around about how much root I can get in fit in so I'm
going to be just cutting it out here just on the other side of the good thin
root growth cut that off kind of put some soil on the bottom
fit it in and push the roots down that way they don't try and grow up second a
straight away or go down get a good root system going fill the rest up some soil
the ideally it is best to go around about where you dug them out okay for
example see with this sucker you can see right there
that was where the soil length was so really I like to go a couple of
centimeters deeper that way they just produce more roots and become more
drought tolerant now after you put it up then you just want to cut a few nodes up
so it just has that otherwise if you had all the entire length the amount of
greenery that would be growing from it and the roots wouldn't be able to
support it so that one's done then you just keep going from there
as you can see this one has the three suckers on the one sort of run-up so
just to separate them find a clear spot in that runner where there's not a lot
of roots just cut in between try to make it like even so I've got like even
amount of roots then I usually just cut off excess thicker sort of roots then
you have three separate ones now I'm actually just going to keep these for
myself to replant so I'm actually just going to put them all in the same pot so
just put some foil on the bottom
separate them a bit and feel the rest up with soil and just cut it to a few nodes
and there we go and you've got the three potted in one okay so with these
leftover trimmings so I took off the top such as this one I'm just going to try
and take some cuttings now I've never tried this before with them never
actually try taking rasberry cuttings but instead of chucking them out I may
as well see if I can get any to take so right here I'm going to put them in just
a sort of a cutting mixture that I just made up then just got some coarse bark
chips and then also some peat clay mix that a 50/50 ratio that way it the bark
chips allow the drainage but then the peat coil also allows it to hold on to
moisture so just before I put them in I'm just going to give it a bit of a
scrape along the outside bark to explain that green tissue that's where the roots
will grow for I'm just going to push them down just do that with the rest of
them so here they are all put it up and we'll put in the mixture or cutting mix
so I have no idea if this is going to work but may as well have a crack and if
they do that is just a bonus so I've got them all here there's probably about
twenty to twenty-five including just you know some three-feet cuttings that took
we're and I put them up as well so this is a
good bunch here um this is pretty much tripled maybe quadrupled my plants total
plants that I have now so this is awesome so there you go guys that worked
great I'm really happy with the amount of plants I got from most suckers
it is incredible like 25 plants or so that is amazing I'll be given some to my
friends and family as well as selling a few but of course I'll be keeping my sum
for myself and will be replanting those and increase our number of browser
plants and therefore raspberries so I know that haven't been uploading as
often as I can but just again because of the way that I've been really push of
time and if you have noticed the wheat and wind has really picked up and it's
just starting to rain so I better wrap this up but thanks for watching if you
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