Primocanes-New, first-year canes on raspberries and blackberries.
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Primocanes are the first year canes. They are green and frequently more hairy than thorny in appearance.
For biennials, don't cut these. For everbearers, at the end of the fall, snip off the top 3 or 4 inches.
Unlike other blackberries, 'Prime-Jim' and 'Prime-Jan' fruit on the first-year canes (primocanes) in early fall and then again on the same canes (floricanes) the next summer. This allows for two blackberry crops a year.
Leave new canes (primocanes) of trailing blackberries on the ground each winter to help protect them from freeze damage. Trellis the canes before they begin growth in mid-March.
Next year, this year's floricanes will be replaced by new shoots, primocanes. After they've fruited, the canes die back and should be cut down to make room for the new primocanes.
primocane First-year growth, usually vegetative, on caneberries. Only fall-bearing raspberries produce fruit on primocanes late in summer.
 See also: Berry, Primocane, Plant, Support, Planting
  
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