Tip Layering Black Raspberries

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(9/23/89) Host Ray Campbell talks about successfully growing black raspberries and demonstrates a method of propagation called tip layering that works well for this plant. For more information: Fact Sheet HLA-6443 Layering Propagation for the Home Gardener

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I have had a Jewel Black Raspberry plant that I bought from the local farmers market for 3 years now that I planted in a 16 inch plastic planter.

It has never bared fruit but it's grown from being so tiny to a very tall plant with vines going everywhere.
I finally got three 5 feet tall bamboo sticks and wrapped the vines around them.
Had also started fertilizing with fish water which didn't give me the fruit I wanted, but the vines shot up fast.
I started noticing a putrid odor coming from the pot. The mulch had mold under it.
I removed the mulch and replanted into a 22 inch whiskey barrel, this time I decided to not mulch.

Now I am using Jobe's Organics for fruit trees fertilizer sticks this summer.
The roots have already filled the 22 inch pot. It's become so out of control I had to trim it down a bit. But it's still very long so I wrapped the vines around itself and the bamboo sticks. The tips of a few vines have found itself back into and around the planter.

Still no fruit but long & tall healthy looking plant.
Help! What am I doing wrong?
Great Video. I've got black raspberries here in Ohio and appreciate the info
Great tips, really!

Do black raspberries yield as much as red raspberries for the size of the plant. Are black raspberries ever-bearing or do you just get one harvest from them?
BRILLIANT!!!Thanks for putting this video up. Ray in U.K.