Yellow raspberries

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have red raspberries on the west side of the yard. I bought yellow raspberries last spring. I planted them about 50 feet away and waited for wonderful yellow raspberries, but the plants looked a little sick and several died. I thought maybe not enough acid and got some acid food and can't remember what else I did to them, but they lived and some had a red speck instead of a raspberry it looked like a little red fruit. Would the yellow cross with the red ones and turn red? I can see that if the plants were sickly and would not produce nice big raspberries, but they should be little yellow specks I would think. I have not decided what to do with them this spring. I might just pull them all up and get some more yellow and plant in the front yard.

 

[897tgigvib]

I sure want to hear what the experienced yellow raspberry growers say about this too!

 

[thistlebloom]

I grow my yellow raspberries with my red ones and they do fine. I didn't know you weren't supposed to grow them together.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I've only grown the red raspberries, but my understanding is that the black raspberry is the one that should not be grown with the others. Yellow and red together should be fine.

 

[catjac1975]

My red, yellow and black are together and do fine. What is supposed to happen when the blackberrys are with the others?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Your question made me look it up. I took a quote from the source below it,

Red raspberries tend not to show virus symptoms if infected but aphids can still spread the virus to Black raspberries that tend to be very susceptible. Plant black raspberries away from red raspberries but if you have a limited space, always plant black raspberries upwind from the red raspberries so that aphids are not blown by wind from red to black raspberries.

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/fruit/raspberries.cfm?section=small

I think this is another of those things where something can happen, not necessarily that something will happen each and every time without fail 100% for sure. If the red or yellow raspberries have the virus they may not show it but the black are more susceptible and will get hurt. If the red or yellow dont have the virus to start with, they cant spread it.

So it is good practice to spread them apart , just in case.

 

[catjac1975]

I find raspberries and blackberries to be easy and pest and disease free. Lucky I guess.

 

[Jared77]

Are you sure you have blackberries or black raspberries?

 

[catjac1975]

I have large thornless blackberries. Yum.

 

[897tgigvib]

Both my varieties of thornless Blackberries grew very vigorously last season, their first year in the ground. Most of their leaves are still on. Blackberries around here hold some of their leaves until the next spring.