Need a clever plan to prune my raspberries right

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  1. Selleri

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    I bought a 3-pack of raspberry canes from Wilkos, allegedly there is one early fruiting, 1 mid- and 1 late fruiting plant.

    Being a tidy lady, I carefully threw away the box, as well as the tags attached to the canes. :dunno:

    Now I have a huge container with 7 healthy canes, 2 of them are flowering now. (That's £2.99 well spent... :) )

    How should I prune them and when? I somehow recall that late fruiting ones should be cut down after fruiting, but early fruiters will fruit on last year's canes...

    Should I just chop the fruited canes after frosts and leave the rest?
     
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    After an individual cane has finished fruiting then cut it down to the ground. Doesn't matter if it is early / late or summer / autumn fruiting, that methods works for all of them. The Summer fruiting ones will produce suckers this Spring that fruit Next year, and Autumn fruiting ones will produce a sucker this spring that carries fruit late Summer this year ... but if you prune immediately after fruiting then you don't need to know / care about when they sucker / fruit etc.
     
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      Thanks Kristen,
      I'll do that!
      I started to get worried as it seems that now all the canes want to flower this year. Not complaining though :)
       
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