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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?BEQFJ 17 October 2012 Pruning Raspberries.
Raspberries are finished producing for the 2012 year. The vegetation is cut to ground level. New vigorous growth begins in he Spring of 2013 and the plants bear fruit starting in September until frost. The vegetation was put through the chipper/shreder and added to the compost pile.
Pruning raspberries
“Summer-fruiting raspberries fruit on one-year-old canes that are cut out after harvest and then replaced by the young canes.
Autumn-fruiting varieties are cut to the ground in late winter to make way for new canes that will grow from the base and fruit the same year.”

And Autumn fruiting varieties fruit in the summer on one year old canes, but not as much as they would on virgin wood.

We've had an odd year with raspberries, we were picking the Autumn not cut fruit in May, and are still picking the fruit from the new wood, often from the same plants now in mid October.

The Summer ones this year though were absolutely tremendous, with huge amounts of fruit, and wonderfully huge amounts of new suckers coming up for next year. I intend to dig lots of them out and move them to a newly reclaimed area as soon as they become dormant. I love this free plant propogation thing so very much.

I owe much of my success with Raspberries to MMM, and a new found reluctance to beligerance.

You know this Bob off,but you never know who's lurking,be ultra carefull to destroy any canes that look like they may be carrying virus,I 'm one for buying new certificated canes maybe after 10 yrs or so.(this new garden has loads but they look a bit iffy,so for the cost of 30 or 40 canes,I don't want to risk it).

I won't comment for fear of tempting fate!

I do burn all the old wood mind.

boboff wrote:And Autumn fruiting varieties fruit in the summer on one year old canes, but not as much as they would on virgin wood.

We've had an odd year with raspberries, we were picking the Autumn not cut fruit in May, and are still picking the fruit from the new wood, often from the same plants now in mid October.

The Summer ones this year though were absolutely tremendous, with huge amounts of fruit, and wonderfully huge amounts of new suckers coming up for next year. I intend to dig lots of them out and move them to a newly reclaimed area as soon as they become dormant. I love this free plant propogation thing so very much.

I owe much of my success with Raspberries to MMM, and a new found reluctance to beligerance.

I've had a great raspberry year and loads in the freezer for winter as I started a new raspberry bed last year so have twice as many as before! Glad they have worked well for you Boboff.