Can an ordinary gardener grow raspberries from seeds: a promising business or an empty exercise
The traditional method of propagating the beloved raspberry is by dividing the bush or buying seedlings from a nursery.
The whole point is that, according to the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , raspberries are a strictly cross-pollinated plant, which means that they do not retain their varietal qualities if they are propagated using botanical seeds.
Therefore, if you want to preserve the variety, the process of raspberry propagation should be carried out exclusively vegetatively.
You might be curious to know what will happen if you try to propagate raspberries from seeds.
Of course, the plant obtained from seeds will not completely replicate all the properties of productive varieties. However, there is a possibility of obtaining productive seedlings. This is what professional breeders achieve by using this method.
At the household level, if you grow raspberries from seeds, you can get fruit-bearing plants with a probability of about 15%.
By simple mathematical calculations, it can be assumed that most plants obtained in this way will have low yields and differ from the parent plant.
Therefore, it is not recommended to propagate raspberries from seeds, because the chances of success are simply negligible.
Earlier, the expert told when and how to sow tomatoes for seedlings.
