Viral diseases of plants are dangerous and incurable, so it is important to know how to protect plantings from diseases.
If, after winter pruning, remontant raspberries produce a large number of small shoots that do not bear fruit, then we are talking about a virus of overgrowth.
Such bushes need to be removed and you should not wait until the disease spreads to other plants.
Some gardeners hope that everything can be fixed, cured, and fed. But this does not work with viral diseases.
Affected shoots grow to a maximum of 0.5 m and never bear fruit. They should not just be dug up, but destroyed and the condition of the raspberry patch should be monitored.
Bushes that were close to the infected plant may show similar symptoms.
You should not take seedlings from such a raspberry patch to form a new plantation, because the disease can migrate there too. Healthy seedlings are needed to create a new raspberry patch.
