Large golden fruit
Ripe berries move into warm yellow-orange and stand out immediately.
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Double harvest, double pleasure — no excuse to buy fruit 🧺
Family: Rosaceae · Pot diameter: 13cm · organically grown · Height: approximately 45cm
Rubus idaeus TWOTIMER® ‘Yellow Sugana’ lights up its foliage with large yellow to golden-orange berries that change the familiar image of a raspberry. Juicy flesh and a mild, sweet flavour are delightful in a bowl of fresh fruit. On upright canes, the colour appears warmer still against deep-green leaves. It is an unusual choice that brings variety to the harvest and a bright detail to a small edible garden. In a mixed bowl with red raspberries, its soft golden tones remain immediately recognisable.
Yellow raspberries bring an unexpected bright note beside classic red cultivars. On a terrace or in a small fruit border, the golden berries look like little lights among the leaves and make harvesting a distinctive visual experience.
‘Yellow Sugana’ retains the two-crop mechanism of ‘Sugana’ and adds rare bright colour with a gentler flavour impression.
Ripe berries move into warm yellow-orange and stand out immediately.
With the correct winter cut it crops in early summer and again in autumn.
The yellow fruit combines juicy aromatic sweetness with a gentle flavour impression.
Why you will love it: It offers the same clever two-crop system in a colour that transforms every bowl and dessert.
Plant in sun or bright partial shade, allowing 60–80cm between plants. In very hot areas choose morning sun.
Silver foliage, blue autumn flowers and spherical heads highlight the golden fruit.
Sun or bright partial shade; afternoon protection during prolonged heat.
Even moisture from flowering until the end of harvest.
Very good winter hardiness to about −20°C, with container root protection.
Wash fully ripe fruit before eating.
Plant in deep fertile soil that drains well yet stays cool. Add organic mulch around the roots without covering the cane bases.
Water deeply when the top few centimetres dry. Even moisture from flowering to harvest helps fruit fill uniformly.
Tie 5–7 upright canes to wires at 80 and 150cm, keeping old and new canes on different sides.
In early spring add mature compost and a balanced fruit-plant feed according to its label. Avoid excess nitrogen.
Mulch the roots, remove weeds by hand and pick frequently. During prolonged heat, provide light afternoon shade.
Pick as fruit turns golden orange, thin weak canes and keep roots cool into autumn.
It is self-fertile. Bees and bumblebees help both crops form full berries.
The first crop arrives June–July and the second from late August into October in mild weather.
Pick when lemon yellow becomes warm golden orange and fruit slips from the white core.
Secure netting to a separate frame as fruit begins to colour and leave easy access.
After planting: train a few strong canes, retain complete tips and water consistently into autumn.
In yellow ‘Sugana’, retain the living lower part of each cane that fruited only at its tip in autumn. In late winter, cut the spent tip back to a healthy bud so the lower shoots can carry the first summer crop. After that harvest, remove the whole old cane. Keep replacement canes for autumn production rather than shortening them all together.
‘Yellow Sugana’ can produce two crops. In winter remove only the tip that fruited, retain the lower cane for early summer and after picking cut the entire old cane at the base.
Action: Let the new cane grow without tipping.
Retain: Retain the complete tip for the later crop.
Action: Cut below the last point that carried fruit.
Retain: Retain the healthy lower section with lateral buds.
Action: Cut the old cane at the base as soon as the first harvest ends.
Retain: Retain new green canes for the second crop.
Use sharp, clean tools suited to the diameter of the wood.
Tie old and new canes on different sides of the wire.
Do not do this: Do not cut every cane low in winter if you want two harvests; that keeps only the later crop.
New upright canes first form flowering tips in late summer.
Yellow berries turn golden orange as sweetness increases.
The lower cane is retained for the following year’s early crop.
Distinct basal stems, leafy side shoots and fruit attached to the branching framework.
The lower living portions of previous-season canes produce the summer crop.
New current-season canes bear fruit near their tips.
The two views follow the same natural growth cycle.
What to expect after planting: New upright canes first form flowering tips in late summer.
Yellow ‘Sugana’ began as an unexpected colour change on the red form. A mutated shoot, known in horticulture as a sport, produced yellow rather than red fruit. Lubera preserved this change through vegetative propagation, and the selection acquired its own place alongside red ‘Sugana’.
The relationship remains visible in its growth, ripening time and potential for two harvests, but the new colour changes the experience of the fruit. Yellow to golden-orange berries brighten the bush and stand out in the harvest bowl. A change that began on one shoot became a different way to enjoy a familiar raspberry.
‘Yellow Sugana’ can occasionally show red drupelets among the yellow ones of the same raspberry. Because a raspberry contains many individual little fruits, a colour difference can be confined to a small part of its surface. Two different fruits have not fused: the variation appears within one aggregate structure formed from a single flower.
The potential for two harvests depends on buds along the cane following different developmental schedules. Upper buds can fruit during the first growing season, while lower ones continue the following year. Wood that has completed the second crop does not remain a permanent productive framework; new shoots from the perennial base take its place.
Six practical answers for choosing, growing, harvesting and pruning this exact cultivar.
It is self-fertile. Bees and bumblebees help both crops form full berries.
1.6–1.8m high and approximately 0.6–0.8m wide, with the habit described above.
Yes, in a container of at least 45–50 litres with two firm wires and consistent watering.
The first crop arrives June–July and the second from late August into October in mild weather.
It is a stable cultivar trait. Full ripeness is shown when yellow becomes warm golden orange.
In winter cut only the fruited tip and after the first crop remove the entire old cane.
Every order is prepared with care so your plant arrives upright, secure and safe.
Individual protection
Plants in pots with a capacity of 3 litres or more are placed in individual boxes that hold the pot securely and reduce the risk of tipping over.
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