I've been banging my head off the wall for two years trying to come up with a trellis idea. I love the really high one you showed. I'm going to steal that idea. T.Y.
Put little flags on, or just keep visual track of smaller numbers of the canes that are fruiting, and you can prune them in late summer or even after harvest. They are already on their way to death and pruning early prevents the risks of over wintering any disease or fungus that they could contract or harbor. Looking great!
Hi Stacey, I remember coming to your house more than 20 years ago to a bible study with JD. I'm still here in Victoria and growing figs and other fruit trees on a rooftop garden next to my apartment building. Cheers,
I never comment on videos. But needed to tell you how helpful this video is. Thank you. Don't stop sharing your knowledge plz, you explain so clearly with everything one would want to know. Subscribed. x
Thank you so much for this explanation. I bought one of these two years ago and was wondering why I was only getting fruit on last year's growth. This year it really took off so I expect quite a harvest next season!!
I have wild blackberries all over my property, but you talked me into getting some of these. Planted six new TC's in the garden not long ago. Can't wait til next year! Thank a bunch for all the tips in both of your videos.
Hey brother this video was really good! I was lost as to what to do with our little sapplig but you have given me plenty of great ideas with cheese on top, organic cheese as well, like from a cow! Rock on brother!
Really enjoyed the 2 methods you grow your thornless blacberries! Will be coying your methods. I grow the Triple Crown's. Did them on a pergola-style support, 5 foot high. We pulled the canes down and roped them to the cross pieces of the pergola, not cutting off the height. Then we tried cutting them at 6 foot, but the length still was too much. Have to move the plants (not sure how they'll like that!) So now will be doing it your way, now I found you. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing what you've done with yours. I think that if you moved them while they were dormant they'll take off like a rocket when growing season arrives!
Great video. Blackberries are the easiest fruit you can grow. I bought ONE thornless plant from the Cal Poly Pomona farm store years ago and now have about 8 and they are doing amazing. Very easy to care for and super productive.
Great information. I purchased a few triple crowns about 8 years ago and have had an abundance of fruit. I also have given away many many plants to friends and strangers. They do make great gifts. The jelly and wine they produce is delicious.
Hi there - I bought a thornless blackberry late last year and can't wait till next Spring (I'm in Australia). I plan to grow it over a decorative garden arch which leads from one part of the garden to another. I also have many other types of berries which I bought at the same time - marionberry, tayberry, sylvanberry, josterberry, loganberry, youngberry, raspberry and thornless raspberry. I have not had experience with berries before (not counting strawberries of which I have about 250 plants) and I am leaning towards just concentrating on the thornless varieties. I love your very informative videos - please keep them coming. 😍
Shalom! I have enjoyed your plentiful great information on thornless Blackberries. I will certainly become a better gardener for gleaming from your expertise. Thank you so much and Blessings to you and yours.
WOW how amazing- thank you for the clear explanation. I am getting my allotment in London (UK) next week so collecting lots of ideas for my patch. Will keep coming back for more ideas :)
Great video! I started with 25 and 5 years later have given away about 50 plants and have over 200 producing beautifully now! Huge berries (3 covers my palm), minimum work. Amazing jelly, cobblers, or fresh! I did learn a couple of things from your vid, Thanks for posting!
Thank you very much! It was very helpful as I just planted mine last season and I need to know wht to do this summer. Great video. very inspiring and enouraging.
all these years-20, I've been totally ripped apart from the 5 acres of blackberry bushes here--- I must invest in these gifts from God now! Who knew? Thanks so much for the vid
Love your vids & what a great Blackberry spread! I planted a thornless Black Satin Black erry bush just to see what it will do & it is growing sooooo happily with lots of new vines so quickly. We harvested a few berries already & they are the best blackberries I've ever eaten! they are sooo sweet & flavorful! Thank you for the information you share. I find your videos to be great resources & appreciate that you get right to the point with no fluff. 😊
If you have a climate that sometimes has cooler, wet summers, (as here in the NL) make sure you cut open the plant so that the sun can reach in. (specially in the bulky trellis form). Otherwise a mould can ruin the fruit that is not exposed to the sun. Mine doesn't propagate under the ground, but when the normal shoots touch the ground for a period, it gets roots and you can do it that way. 2 plants, 10-15kg annually, with once every 5 year a failed crop due to mould or very late frost. I use the same plastic wrapped wire 🙂 Main uses: pancakes and jam. The jam is made with high pectin sugar,(75% fruit over-all). Add other kinds of fruit like loganberry,black/red currant for variation, specially 10-30% black currant is nice.
Hi Danielle, I'm glad you found this video helpful. I have a second one which may come in handy - answering questions that arise over time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6zh5OVXjROo.html wishing you well :) Stace
@@SustainableStace i hate to give him a share because he is a senile, marxist-communist, but TexasPrepper2 has several videos showcasing his two-wire interweave trellis for his semi-erect triples. Some videos are before he installed and you can see the problems he had, and why he finally installed. So it definitely works. I have a couple wildseeded semi-erects that came up along the dog kennel so i just tie them to the cyclone-fencing, and an erect that came up near a shed. Even pruning the canes to 3' and keeping the laterals to about 13" to keep it stubby even that one will fall over when it's loaded and bearing so i just drove one of the light-duty C-posts and wrap the canes with some rope. For my wild-seeded bramblers i use a high-low trellis with a single wire at 3' & 5'. I have about a 2month window of berries, with the vines bearing first, then the semi-erects, and then the erects just about three-weeks apart.
Great video, very helpful. Thank you. It would also be helpful if you put your general location in your about section. Just your zone or northeast US, etc, so if I see your blackberries are flowering on July 1, I can judge when mine will.
Great idea Cindy! More recently I've been trying to reference that in my vids and I will add it to my description. So you know - we live on Vancouver Island (west coast of Canada) and we're in growing Zone 8.
Count me in too. I just bought my first thornless blackberry plant today, now I just need to decide where in my yard I want to plant it. I'm subscribed.
@@SustainableStace We have those to mostly in or next to the woods, I have those at the back of My Garden and they sometimes invade into the middle of My potted plants which is really annoying to remove.
I bought 3 different varieties of thornless blackberries and I'm so excited to get them growing! How long until they start producing? What kind of fertilizer and when do you recommend? Great video! ❤
Congrats on your new berry plants. I've got another whole video about Thornless Blackberries where I cover lots more content: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6zh5OVXjROo.html Time to first production will depend on how big they are and how quickly they get established. If they're healthy, then certainly next year you should see lots of fruit. Our thornless blackberries get a shovel of compost or rotted manure around the base in spring and that's it!
Superb video!! I just got answers to every question I've had over the last bunch of years growing thornless berries! We haven't done everything right, but have still had yummy blackberry summers! ONE MORE QUESTION THO: towards the end of the "season", I noticed some berries had little white worms in them. Sometimes, I just closed my eyes and ate them anyway, but if other people noticed, they wouldn't eat them. Do I need to spray the plants, or just eat the berries quicker?!!
I don't have worms on mine but your mention of it had me digging for info. It seems your situation is common. It seems while the worms are safe to eat (they are a young form of a fruit fly) most suggest rinsing / washing the berries before eating. I think rinsing the berries would be safer than spraying them!
@@SustainableStace Thanks for checking into this. Those little worms were IN the berry - if you pulled off one that had gotten a little mushy, probably from those critters squirming around. Although, rinsing is a good idea....1. don't think it would affect the worms inside and 2. not many of our berries even make it in the house :D We just stand out there and eat them!! But your pruning information has already been invaluable! We had not taken out the old canes and the plants as a whole looked a little pathetic this year. So cleaned them out after watching this today and hoping for some improved growth this season. Thanks again!!
Just found your channel! So glad I did. My blackberry, not a thornless variety, isn't doing so hot, sadly Ive neglected it to the point of abuse but, it's determined to thrive! It has very healthy shoots popping up about ten feet away from the original spot in the middle of a pathway. I want to get a thornless blackberry but was wondering if I should eradicate the plant I have now, so they don't cross pollinate? Or is that not a problem I need to worry about. Keep it up man, good job. Renewed my interest with this video. Thanks.
Hi David, Thanks for your encouragement. I'm glad your interest is renewed! I don't think you'll have any negative effects due to cross pollination. Wishing you success in the garden.
Hi David - sorry for the delayed reply . . . .I don't believe you'll have a problem with cross -pollination. It is so good to watch plants thrive, despite our abuse!
Thanks for this video. Two questions, first: I have heard that you aren't supposed to plant blackberries next to raspberries, fact or fiction? I'm just wondering if you have had any issues. I grow Joan J raspberries and am looking to put in a row of triple crown blackberries right next to them. Second: How is the flavor of triple crown? I tend to prefer a berry that is more sweet than sour, not really a fan of tart berries. Any other information you want to include about winter hardiness, your climate, and your usda zone would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hi there! I've not heard about planting the two berry varieties side by side. I do with no ill effects. I love the flavour of triple crown - quite sweet when left to ripen - in my view. I use it for smoothies, baking and jam. All with good results. I'm on Southern Vancouver Island in BC, Canada. We're in Zone 8.
@@SustainableStace Thank you so much for getting back to me, I appreciate all of the info. I think I'm going to give Triple Crown a try this next spring. I live in zone 6, so we'll see how it goes. Thanks again!
Hey Stacey, great tips there. Just wonder how the new shoots got propagated a few feet from the main plant? Did it come from the underground roots or from the seeds? Thanks.
Planted a Blackberry three years ago. Live just north of San Antonio, Tx...It has yet to go dormant thru the winter, even this last winter when it hit 6°F for a week with 7" of snow on the ground. Didn't loose any leaves, thought for sure it would die from that extreme cold snap. How do I trim or cut it back ?
It sounds like it's very vigorous. During the time when it 'should' be dormant I'd suggest you prune it. Make it the shape and size you want it to be - they bounce back well from pruning! Remove some lower branches so energy is directed up the main vine and be sure to trim/nip the endmost section of the main vine to send it a message to push energy out for flowering and fruiting. I bet it's going to be a rockstar plant for you!
Where I live, wild blackberries covered in thorns are along all the edges of clearings, pastures, ditches and fences. An invasive species brought here centuries ago which are stubborn to remove and very prickly. What do you wish to keep out with a thorny hedge ?
Hi Stacey. I just bought 4 blackberry root bulbs at home depot. They are about 3 lb in size. They have a single shoot about a foot lon. I live in Iowa. Poor soil in my yard so i mxed sand with good garden soil. The area is about 15 sq. ft and is well drained. Questions. should I fertilize? How often do I water? Is earthworm casting a good fertilizer? Thank you
Blackberries come in trellis vs upright habit. No need for an extensive trellis unless you have blackberries that have a trellis (vining) habit! Consider a trellis to support netting because many birds favor blackberries, too.
Thank you. My husband brought one plant home. One of the leaves was folded, with the leaf edges touching. It had tightly - woven spider web looking stuff at the edges. I didn’t open it , in case there was a bug inside. Just plucked it off and ran to flush it in the toilet. That was in June. It was ok all summer, but now that September is here, I saw another one. This didn’t look as scary, so I looked at it. The white webby substance appeared to act like a glue, holding the leave edge together. There was nothing inside. I just plucked it off. I’m obviously new to this, and wonder if anyone could advise me as to whether I should destroy the plant, or just leave it? It is about 2’ high, but spindly, with skinny branches going every which way. I started to wind the branches into a chain link fence, but now wonder if I should lightly attach it to stakes, and maybe trim the branch tops next Spring, so it will resemble more a thick bush? Also, should I cover it with straw for an east coast Canada winter? Thank you.
Bugs happen! Don't destroy the plant. It sounds like it's small & struggling. It's a good idea to clean it off. You can spray it with a hose using a misting spray. If there are leaves folded up, I would open them up and pluck any bugs / residue out. If you think there's some disease / bugs you can use something like a Safer's Soap spray or make some (oil + dish soap + warm water) in a spray bottle. Usually that gets rid of common pests when you spray the leaves. Attaching branches to trellis, wire, fence with some ties is good. Winding it thru a fence may prove difficult in the future when you want to remove old canes. You can choose what shape and size you want and prune accordingly. Pinching branch tips in spring will stimulate more fruit down the cane. re: winter - yes, if you provide some compost and straw around the roots/base it will certainly provide some insulation and increase chances of a stronger start in spring. Good luck :)
Wow you talk pretty fast. I bought a couple of these off of BST on facebook from a guy in the country. I gave one to my sister and kept one. I put it in a 5 gln bucket and it's doing good. I am wondering when to cut off the "old wood." There is only one stalk of it, and it is not "dead." All of the leaves and new growth are on the new part. I am excited about having my own thornless blackberries. The man told me it will probably be next season before I get berries. I planted mine in March ...
