I see you pinching the tips off of the primocanes to stimulate side shoot growth. My question is this. If you cut the tips off , can you root them and create a new plant ?
@@curtunderwood8039I would bend it to a pot /ground in June and cut at the height desired afterwards at the end of the first year, if the purpose is propagation.
Greetings from Wisconsin, and thank you for the informative video! We call them blackcaps here. I've grown black raspberries for years but didn't pinch them back, now I will. I am adding two varieties this year, Cumberland and New Logan. I love eating them fresh, and they are an important ingredient in my Montmorency cherry wine along with rhubarb, it really makes that flavor pop!
Very useful information. I grow black raspberries, very tasty. I did not know how to care for the plant, and the bushes turned into a bunch of branches diverging in all directions. Now I know how to care. Thanks for the recipe. Fresh berries in winter - wow!
THANK YOU for this informative video. I've struggled for four years with my black raspberry plants, not knowing how to maintain them. This set me on the bath to maintaining my plants.
In July, I topped off the fruiting canes. In august, can / should you pick the tips off the offshoots of the new fruiting canes as well? The offshoots on my bushes are huge, very long. This is opposed to winter/spring pruning them I guess. Tks for your videos. Very helpful.
Thanks for watching our video. If you tip offshoots, it will trigger them to branch out. I never do that as that will lead to small berries and weak canes. If you leave the long canes till spring, pruning them back after the last frosts you will have a good crop of berries. If you want to propagate the long lateral offshoots are the ones you need to tip layer into the ground.
Thank-you, I'm from Ontario Canada and i boil my maple syrup and will try that recipe using syrup instead of honey with my black raspberries. I'm in zone 4b plant hardiness. Your girl is quite like my granddaughter who loves her honey berries along with all other berries and eats them just as fast. She is a berry good girl. NAMASTE
I seen you berry patch and literally caught my breathe. My patch is nothing compared to yours. My dad had a red raspberry patch 3x the size of yours and we were out there picking constantly. My dad had a recipe to get rid of the black beetles that love raspberries. He made up a concoction of white vinegar, sugar and water. He pounded tposts in ground and wrapped protection around top of post so jar doesn't break. Have to fill glass jar 2/3 full of solution. Has to be glass cuz bugs are attracted by scent and when they get wet they can't climb back out and drown. First couple days you will have to strain out bugs 2x a day with strainer and pour mixture back into jar and reuse. After a couple days the population will decrease and then you can strain less often. Make sure you watch level of bugs in jar cuz they will make an island of bodies and they won't drown anymore. When you have a bucket of dead bugs discard of them far away from your homestead cuz you don't want bugs being attracted to the dead bugs but go to the solution in the jars.
Great and inspiring video. I lost my crop this year because we weren't here to water at the right time. Biggest disappointment of my gardening year. I just got in there to remove the deadwood and to prune the new canes down to about 3.5', happy to see that I will likely have fruit next year - and I WILL be here. I do have a question - how are the birds not eating your fruit?
The long ones did not produce that well. The berries were way up at the top of the canes and were rather dry. Next season we’ll try something new, we’ll trim them much shorter.
Is this variety of Black Raspberry the same as those found in the wild generally? Further, do you know if it is possible to transplant and domesticate them? I have to imagine you're very busy but I always really enjoy your foraging and preserving videos. Keep it up!
As far as I know, wild black raspberries are a different variety and won't produce like the domesticated ones. Wild black raspberries grow in a slightly different pattern than domestic ones and if you try to prune them like the domestic variety they don't produce much berries. They like to grow in messy brambles. So if you transplant wild black raspberries, you'll have a very wild patch that is hard to pick and maintain. The variety of black raspberries that we have had been given to my mother by a friend 10 years ago and she gave me some starts when I started my patch. I'm assuming that they are some standard domestic variety.
@@YouCanToday Awesome! I saw you comment that you shouldn't tip wild black raspberries though. Mine were here when I moved in and they look exactly like yours. Same size and everything but I don't know if they were planted or wild since they are native here.
Can you do the same tipping the tops with red rasberries? I do the same with my black resberries, however I want to get different varieties and want to start with red ones first :). Keep up the greeat work!
From my experience tipping the red raspberry decreases its fruit production dramatically. Red raspberries don't really send out lateral shoots and most of their fruit is produced on the tips. Good luck with your raspberries!
We have that growing wild all over the farm I was raised on along the side of the roads down the old railroad tracks just everywhere out in the woods well maybe not directly in the woods but on the outline of the woods it may produce so many black raspberries it ain't funny. Now that I moved I miss them I need to find me another place to pick. LOL the problem is nowadays they spray along the side of the roads and the railroad tracks so heavily it kills them. I could not find a black raspberry bush for sale anywhere last year where do you find them?
@libertarianman69 Yes, wild varieties are awesome! In our area where we live we have sticky raspberry (Rubus phoenicolasius) that we collect wild. Black Raspberries in our area produce fairly tiny berries that are fairly hard to pick, a cultivated variety growing in the backyard works much better. In terms of finding them for sale, it can be challenging. They do not transplant really well and many plants die off mid summer, even if they are watered really well. Actually we started selling black raspberries from our garden this year. If you want to purchase our plants you can do that by following this link: kinsdomain.com/product/jewel-black-raspberry/ We trim the plant to keep only 1 - 3 green shoots to increase chance of survival, and package roots in a moist coconut substrate. We ship them priority mail which usually takes 1 - 3 days to arrive. If they are planted promptly they have a chance to make it. Once they are established, in about 2 years you'll be able to propagate them from your own plants fairly easily.
Yes you can. You will need to pinch the tops when they are slightly over 4ft. Basically you'll be pinching 2 - 3 inches off the top so once your cane reaches 4ft & a couple inches, pinch the top.
Thank you so much- you're video has helped me with my bushes, however I have one question, what if the new ones are like 10+feet, how far back do I trim them? I didn't know to prune them as they grow wild at my work. I've just started to strangle them in to shape with some metal trellis. Do I cut those long ones back to about 4-5 feet?
If you're dealing with wild black raspberries, pruning them will make them weak and cause diseases (from my experience in PA). If its a domesticated variety that's gone wild, yes, you can prune them back to whatever height you want them to be and they will sprout lateral shoots.
Ive transplanted about 300 plants so far another 500 to go. Trying to get a set up like this. Cant wait for spring to see how it looks. Looks like shit right now. Alot of weird sizes and varieations. God i hope it looks good.
@@maxtenke3738 Sorry no. This year we are doing a small experiment to see if there is enough of interest for us to develop the business idea further. If everything works out we might expand to ship outside of USA in future.
Hello. Great question. It certainly did make a difference. We have created a follow-up video with results and have posted it last week! Check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wrhk1LflGpI.html
