How Long Does It Take for Raspberries to Fruit

For summer-bearing raspberries, it takes two years for each cane to produce fruit. Individual canes grow vegetatively the first year, produce fruit the second year, and then die.

Do raspberries fruit in their first year?

Primocane varieties produce flowers and fruit on stems grown in the same year. Most Autumn fruiting varieties are primocanes, producing fruit in their first year of growth. Floricane raspberries have stems that grow for one year before bearing fruit and flowers, and are usually summer fruiting varieties.

How long after flowering do raspberries grow?

Floricane fruiting raspberries ripen in June and July. It takes about 13 to 15 months from planting time to see a harvest of ripe summer-bearing raspberries. The first crop of fall-bearing or everbearing varieties comes about four to nine months after planting, depending on the timing of the planting.