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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’ fills the basket with large golden-yellow raspberries not once, but twice. The first crop arrives on retained canes in early summer and the second on new-cane tips from late August, with juicy mild sweetness and attractive orange tones at full ripeness. Strong upright growth is easy to organise and creates a bright genuinely distinctive harvest, ideal for extending raspberry season with a colour that birds often notice less quickly than red.
Let fruit move from lemon yellow to golden orange and follow the two-stage pruning plan to keep both crops.
‘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.
Late winter for two crops and after the first harvest
‘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.
Mature ‘Yellow Sugana’ retains lower old-cane sections for the first crop and complete new canes with golden fruit at their tips.
Yellow colour results from reduced formation of red anthocyanins, while habit and fruiting remain those of ‘Sugana’.
What to expect after planting: New upright canes first form flowering tips in late summer.
‘Yellow Sugana’ did not begin as a new cross, but as a rare colour event within the known red ‘Sugana’. In Lubera plant material a shoot appeared that retained upright growth and two fruiting seasons, but ripened berries without strong red pigment.
The different shoot was isolated and vegetatively propagated. Following generations were checked to confirm that yellow-orange colour, large size and the two-crop system remained stable rather than being a temporary plant response.
Once stable, it was released as TWOTIMER® ‘Yellow Sugana’. The original Swiss ‘Autumn Bliss’ × ‘Tulameen’ cross therefore gained a bright colour form without losing the practical repeat cropping that made ‘Sugana’ known.
The change appeared in one shoot after mutation in cells of the developing meristem. Vegetative propagation preserves that exact colour genotype.
Yellow fruit forms fewer red anthocyanins while retaining other flavonoids and carotenoid tones. Flavour perception changes more through sugar-acid balance than colour alone.
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.
