Gold Raspberry (Everbearing) - v. 12 x 11 x 11 cm - Apice Piante

Gold Raspberry (Everbearing) is a very vigorous plant with slightly thorny branches. Large fruit of bright yellow color.

WARNING!!! THE PLANTS WILL BE PRUNED FOR TRANSPORT.

Shrubby plant with a height ranging from 80 to 250 cm, with a perennial rootstock and partially upright biennial branches known as suckers in the first year and fruiting branches in the second. In many varieties, the sucker also bears fruit in the first year. The varieties are distinguished into UNIFEROUS, which produce large fruits in a single period, and EVERBEARING, which produce for several months.

PLANTING: It can be grown throughout Italy, prefers loose soils; for heavy soils, add fertilized peat to the hole. Plants should be arranged in rows at a distance of 40-50 cm within the row and 200-250 cm between rows. It is advisable to set up a row of posts spaced 200 cm apart and three support wires to which the main branches should be secured.

CULTIVATION: Rustic crop, requires little care, emergency irrigation during the summer, and balanced mineral fertilization with a predominance of nitrogen in spring and organic fertilization in late autumn. It can also be grown in pots, ensuring frequent irrigation and fertilization with slow-release fertilizers or through fertigation.

PRUNING: In winter, remove the two-year-old branches that have fruited, and if necessary, thin out the one-year-old suckers.

TREATMENTS: In dry environments and for hobbyist cultivation, fungicidal treatments are usually not necessary; however, two interventions are recommended, the first in autumn and the second at the resumption of vegetative growth with copper and wettable sulfur salts to prevent major adversities.