I do everything your are doing. I have 85 running feet of boysenberries. I got 16 gallons of berries this year, expecting 18 gallons next year. If I had watched your video 4 years ago, I would have a whole lot more berries. Thank you for your sharing you experiences with me. I make BB jelly and jam, and jellies from my citrus trees.
4 plants, 1st year 6 gallons of berries ! was told I wouldn't get any this first year, it helped I grew blackberries before, trained on wire with plastic ties, put tips in the soil to double the number to eight plants now , these berries are delicious ! was so fun to watch the bees go nuts over the blossoms this spring, at times a least a couple of dozen honeybees busy making delicious berries 🐝🐝🐝
So glad I found your video! I bought two rooted cuttings 1 1/2 years ago and they grew quickly. I rooted the ends in small pots of composted soil and now have several more plants. This year, I got my first berries and they were delicious -- what a treat when I was working in the garden! I am just heading out to root some more plants, and now I have a better idea about keeping my plants thriving! I'm in Tampa.
Thank you for sharing your expertise! I grew up near Knott's and have enjoyed these berries for a lifetime! Now I have a few vines of my own. It's the best thing we eat from our garden! So glad to know how to tame them.
Just found your channel today and subscribed. I have always loved Boysenberry Jam. Boysenberries bring back so many fond memories. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve had the jam. I may need to have some again. Anyway, thanks for your wonderful channel! Great content and education ☺️♥️
Hi! If the plants were just planted earlier this year, you will not need to prune anything because you won’t have any dead floricanes. The ones that are growing right now, your primocanes, will lose leaves through the winter and when new leaves emerge next spring, they will become floricanes, bloom, and bear your boysenberries! Next year’s floricanes (currently called this year’s primocanes) will get trimmed next year after they bear fruit and begin to die, while your new primocanes that come in to replace the old will start the cycle all over again!
2400 VINES to prune? And I’m stressing out over one plant. 🙄 Thank you so much for this video, this will be my first time pruning my three year old Boysenberry plant! 😅
Well thank you so much for this! I am in Oregon and planted maybe eight little bushes two years ago. This was our first year getting fruit. We had a spell of very high temperatures and I’d say I lost half of my berries. They just seem to shrivel up and die. They did get plenty of water. Do you have any advice? Thank you so much for this video. Boysenberries are my absolute favorite.
Like a couple others, I'm wondering if you can share what you do with the remaining primocanes that were not trellised to the top. Do you leave them low? Prune them off? Weave them half way up? Please help! Many thanks from New Zealand.
Hi! We're pruning out the spent (dead) canes now in September, but they can be pruned over several months' time, actually. As soon as the floricanes (the ones that just bore fruit) are done producing their boysenberries in late spring, you can prune them out at ground level. It's a bit easier to tell which ones to prune if you wait until September because they'll be brown and look dead. That's how they are supposed to look. They don't continue to live after they're done giving you berries. Your old floricanes will be surrounded by the new, red primocanes with green leaves that emerge each spring to replace the floricanes. They will bear next year's boysenberries. Even the leaves look different on primocanes. Your old floricanes you'll be pruning out will have leaves of three, while the new-growth primocanes will have leaves of seven. It's a cycle that is perpetuated by the roots each year. The way the leaves change is that the new primocanes will shed their leaves in winter and go dormant. Then in early spring (late February, early March) their new floricane leaves of three will emerge just before they bloom. I know I answered more questions than the one you asked, but hope this helps give you an overall idea of how the boysenberry cycle works. Enjoy taking care of your boysenberry vines!
Sounds like a great idea! I would love to see a picture of them when they're all in bloom! The bees will be so happy! The boysenberries will be easy to pick from an arched trellis!
Thank you !! My vines are really long with shoots coming out all along the old vines. Should I wait and just let them fruit ? I planted them 2 years ago.
Hi! The vines you have right now that are long will bloom and bear fruit! Wait until after you harvest your boysenberries. Then prune the vines that gave you berries. The new ones coming up (called primocanes) need to grow so don’t prune them until after they’ve given you boysenberries the following year. Enjoy!
Hard to get good information on pruning these. Some resources have said to trim like a trailing black berry which is to remove everything after harvest, implying they fruit only on new growth. You suggest to trim like raspberries, as they are typically described as a raspberry and blackberry cross I was unsure. Thanks for the clarification
We are currently putting in 1000 tip starts that we will harvest in the spring. Stay tuned at rudysoriginal.com next February and March for when they will become available again! Thanks for your interest! And depending on conditions, we may be able to ship our bare root vines. It depends on where you live. We will only ship to areas where we know the boysenberries can survive. If you mulch deeply, they can survive down to 8°F. Anything colder than that kills them.
@Boysen Berry Farm hello, i planted boysenberry vines (og cultivar) from stark bros last sept. Temps hit -5 Fahrenheit and they survived because i piled straw up over and around them. They shot out this spring and are over 12" tall now. Next winter i will cover with double plastic and straw over the ground. More work but i can grow them here in michigan in zone 6. Thanks
