Hi....thanx for ur post, the Nursery that sells them agrees it's probably Latham or another Summer bearing variety, as of yet i have no berrries or fruiting laterals starting so i'm guessing this is a Summer variety.

I've been waiting 2 years for fruit on the supposed Jaclyn plant that looks to be something else

If you can post a pic or two of the Primocanes and growth in general that would be great

Now i have to wait and see if i like this variety whatever it is, i still want to get a Jaclyn planted so i can see for myself what the fuss is about

Here is the plant in question, doesn't look like Jaclyn does it ?

The tall one in middle here

thanx

That definitely does not look like my Jaclyn primocanes. I'll try to grab some pictures in the next couple of days.

Here are some pictures of a primocane and the fruit. Some very short primocanes set fruit a month ago that is ripening now, but many are still forming flower buds. Thorns are very short, sparse, and dark colored. To me the canes seem to be rather wimpy looking compared to other varieties, but they put out quite a bit of good sized berries in September. I'll post some more pictures when berry production ramps up.

Are you sure your raspberries are not actually Canby Red?

Jaclyn primocane berries are starting to ripen in larger numbers now. Some of the canes only fruit at the tip, whereas others also have laterals that will ripen later. I first detected SWD on August 6th, and it has infested my early Caroline berries, and some of the Jaclyn (the ones pictured below were OK). We've had a string of temps in the 60's the past few days, and it seems to have really slowed down the SWD for now.

Edit: I just happened to check Nourse's website, and they no longer offer Jaclyn as well as some other varieties like Taylor. Oh well!

Hi all...hope everyone is getting excited about the coming Raspberry / Blackberry season !

I got a new Jaclyn Raspberry plant from Gurney's that i potted up around March 6th and been keeping outdoors while it's been warm and bring in when cold at nights....along with several other potted plants i have like Anne which i potted up around 2nd March.

It is growing very slowly, Anne looks like a small bush with lots of green leaves growing on old wood and several suckers growing nicely while Jaclyn is barely breaking any buds on old wood and the suckers growing up from the crown aren't very promising.

Does any one else here have experience growing Jaclyn Raspberry and is it a slow starter, i know some varieties like Lauren are slow starters.

It's just starting to leaf out on top now but i checked the ones they are selling at Home Depot inside and they have fruit already forming on the old wood....maybe just a lazy plant as each has a mind of it's own i guess......or most likely most of the growth is below the soil line.

I will try to feed it with some Miracle Grow more frequently than normal to try and stimulate some more growth.

All my other potted stuff is looking good as well as my regular bushes....it's just April now...nice head start this year if we can keep it going with a major cold spell coming back.

See attached photo of Jaclyn @ 3 weeks growth......below Anne @ 1 Month

Quite a difference in cultivars from one to the next

any and all feedback welcome

Looking back through my notes, I planted 25 Jaclyn bareroots from Nourse on April 16th 2014. 14 of them were budding leaves by the 17th of May, and the rest by the 24th. So they seem to take a while to get going in my experience.

Hi...anyone familiar with the leaf patterns on the Jaclyn Raspberry, i'm noticing that the basal sprouts have leaves that don't look anything like the leaves on top of the plant that is already bearing fruit buds.

After looking up the patent on this cultivar it has a very complex parentage of several unnamed varieties which include Black Raspberry...my guess is that there is some recessive genes showing up here, you can see in the photo above but the plant has just grown a little since then.

I just pulled my Crimson Giants today, 6 Feet of em and planted Anne and Jaclyn in place...2 years in a row losing too many berries in October because of hard Frost....i wanted to have berries into November but the weather doesn't cooperate.

Hopefully these two varieties will produce some nice early berries in the Fall, i've had Anne b4 but plant looked sick so i replaced it with Latham.

BTW, anyone growing Jaclyn should know that it is capable of producing a 2nd Fall Crop if pruned correctly according to it's breeders....you can Google the patent about Jaclyn online...it has a very interesting parentage.

Any photo's that can be posted of new Jaclyn suckers etc would be great.

So far I have very few Jaclyn primocanes/suckers emerging, but will try to get a picture when some decent ones show up. I'm somewhat disappointed in the amount of dieback in the floricanes, which I'm attempting to get a crop from for the first time. Some of the strongest primocanes from last year appear to not be budding at all. All of my best summer bearing varieties (Royalty, Taylor, Boyne) are budding at a rate of 90-100% already. With SWD a big problem here, if I don't get a decent floricane crop from Jaclyn I'm going to have to consider tearing these out.

I have noticed the Jaclyn primocanes attempting a second crop the last couple years, but the flower buds don't start forming until nearly all of the first crop berries are depleted. Around here, that doesn't happen until a few weeks before the first frost.

Here's a closeup of a Jaclyn sucker, as well as a photo of the lack-luster Jaclyn floricane growth. At least most of the buds that did break are also putting out flower buds, so maybe I'll get a decent amount of berries from these.

Hi...i have a pic here of the Jaclyn plant i planted recently, as you can see the bottom of the plant has some strange leaves coming out of base, i got this as a bare root plant so i just potted it up.

Not sure if these are part of the plant itself of something else mixed in, not seen these type of leaves on any of my other Raspberry plants......is it possible this is some recessive gene...this plant has a very complex parentage.

BTW...my plant finally started to flower this week.....

Take a look at the basal leaves and see if they look familiar

thanx

If I had to guess, I'd say that's a weed. But I'm no expert!

Started getting my first Jaclyn Fall Crop berries today, Primocane not very big but very heavy load of berries on top third +

It's been a very odd year for mine. Lots of primocanes (some to 5 feet), but only a few flowered about a month ago that are now resulting in berries. Picked first berries about a week ago, but 90% of primocanes are still flowering or just have flower buds. Luckily, SWD has been no where to be found so far, following a year in which they arrived on August 1st. The hot/dry weather might have something to do with it, but we were under an isolated 4" (!) downpour last week, so things may change in a hurry.

In case anyone is still interested in the variety, here is another Jaclyn update. Last fall I wanted to find out why I was suddenly having so many problems with my raspberries, after more than a decade without any major problems. I had a soil test done which indicated my soil was low in Nitrogen and Potash. I've made three applications (1x fall, 1x early spring, 1x last week) of Lesco 24-0-11 (from Home Depot). It's been a night-and-day difference for all of my raspberries, including Jaclyn. The primocanes are much more dense than last year,about waist high already, and much more uniform in height. I trimmed off all the floricanes this spring, but may attempt a floricane crop next year if their vigor continues. So far I'm glad I didn't give up on this variety, but we'll see how the primocane crop turns out.

Thanks for the update!

Yes i'm growing Jaclyn and all my berries are growing something fierce this year !....will keep you posted on Jaclyn ok.

well kwik update on Jaclyn, had my first berry this week, but that's ok ...Primocanes are starting to take off high now...looking for a nice Fall crop for my first time here.

Here's my fall update on Jaclyn...the Lesco fertilizer I applied earlier this year has worked miracles. The primocanes are very thick and tall (some to 7 feet), loaded with fruit that has been ripening for a few weeks. Unfortunately, they are infested with SWD. The infestation actually started with my summer-bearing varieties back in July, but it has carried over into the fall crop. I have attempted to control them with Spinosad, but with so many Jaclyn flowers still blooming I'm reluctant to spray too heavily and risk killing pollinators. It's becoming obvious that fall-bearing raspberries are no longer be a viable option around here unless/until SWD can somehow be eradicated by some other means. I'll probably leave the primocanes intact next spring to see if I can get a floricane crop that can at least partially avoid SWD.

Here is my 2018 update on Jaclyn. I decided to keep all of the primocanes intact over the winter, and did not trim them until they budded this spring. While there was significant winter die back as in previous years, there were enough floricanes to give a surprisingly decent crop that is ripening now, with the same great taste as the primocane crop. This is significant to me because now is also the time when Prelude ripens around here, so I'm getting a great early harvest between the two varieties prior to the emergence of SWD. Also, the primocanes are approaching 5 ft tall already. I'm definitely keeping this variety for the early floricane crop, the trick is to heavily fertilize them based on soil analysis. I may even expand my planting using suckers...Nourse doesn't sell this variety anymore and I wouldn't buy from the nurseries that currently do. Glad I got them when I did and stuck with them.