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Post by txdirtdog on May 21, 2011 14:25:48 GMT -5
How do you do it?
My blackberry fruits are just starting to ripen good. Do you root a cane? Divide them? Try to grow from seeds?
What methods could I use to try to increase the number of plants I have in the yard? When would be the appropriate time to try it?
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Post by coppice on May 21, 2011 17:54:39 GMT -5
All caine fruit can be taken by divisions (when the plant is dormant) or by tip layer.
Tips of caine fruit when they touch the ground will often make roots (at the tip) and can be taken by division from parent.
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Post by txdirtdog on May 22, 2011 22:14:17 GMT -5
Thank you Coppice. So divide during winter or bend a tip to the ground to encourage rooting. Both seem easy enough.
Can you describe tip layering? I'm not familiar with this method.
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Post by coppice on May 23, 2011 1:01:36 GMT -5
All tip layering is, is a description of what caines do when nobody is looking. If you were doing say a google search, try "air layering". Air layering in its oldest form was to weight down a low slung branch with a nice flat rock. Let it (the rock) sit on branch for a year and when you come back and remove rock the branch will have callused roots and be ready to be cut free from its parent. Viola! one clone of the parent...
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Post by txdirtdog on May 23, 2011 9:05:23 GMT -5
Ahaa! Thank you sir.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2011 23:48:14 GMT -5
txdd, last year we went to Oklahoma on a fishing trip with my brother in April and found a hill side of wild blackberries so we just dug 6 small plants with about a quart to a gallon of dirt on each root ball. 5 of them lived and they are full of berries now here in Arizona ... we wrapped the roots with paper towels and just put them in a paper grocery sack inside of an empty ice chest for the trip home.... it was about 4 days before I got them planted .. they are tough plants and very hardy..... next time I'm going to leave the bermuda grass in Oklahoma... LOL.. I'm still trying to kill it out.
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Post by coppice on Jun 6, 2011 5:58:13 GMT -5
For what its worth caine fruit likes full sun. They might grow in shade, but fruit will suffer.
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 6, 2011 7:32:18 GMT -5
ACKKK... Come dig them up here... they are a hateful weed here on my property... Some of the canes out here are like 12ft. long and will reach out and grab you while mowing!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2011 5:36:21 GMT -5
I found a few wild blackberries with very large fruits at the edge of the woods on our property last year. This spring I moved them to a garden in a row. I plant to cultivate them like my large red raspberries and tie them to a fence support. They are doing well and growing now. I might try the tip rooting method too. Thanks for the info!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2011 21:05:14 GMT -5
ACKKK... Come dig them up here... they are a hateful weed here on my property... Some of the canes out here are like 12ft. long and will reach out and grab you while mowing! Top them when the canes get to four to five feet. Put fence posts and wire around them to hold them upright. You'll be eating blackberry cobbler before you know it. Yeah, they can be wicked but in my opinion well worth it. I also have thornless blackberry, but they don't produce as well for me. As to propagation, my blackberries send up canes which can be dug and transplanted when dormant. They are very tough and I have a harder time keeping them contained than trying to propagate.
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Post by Durgan on Oct 31, 2011 17:54:39 GMT -5
Propagated for a neighbour by digging a sucker and placing in a pot, watering well for about two weeks, and both are now thriving in 2011 www.durgan.org/URL/?IZJEX 11 August 2010 Thornless Blackberry Seven pounds of berries were picked from these two thornless blackberry plants in their third year, and the first year of production. The berries ripen over a period of time. Quality is excellent. All the berries have a slight tart taste. This depends on the degree of ripeness. If the berry is fully ripe, determined by it falling off the stem when touched, the berry will be sweet with almost no tart taste. www.durgan.org/URL/?VCJSF 14 August 2010 Making Blackberry Juice. Many blackberries are available, so juice is being made of the excess. A container of four cups of berries is filled with water, placed in a pot on the stove and gently boiled for about 20 minutes, with periodic mashing. The cooked mash is then run through a fine mesh screen. The finished product is of fine quality and nothing added. Pure!
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