In this video, I will show you the two times of year to prune your blackberries (now is one of them) and simple tips on how to prune them for huge harvests of big juicy berries.
I appreciate that you assume we have no prior knowledge and you make the distinctions between the types of canes that others don't. Basically they just name them as if qe understand totally what that means, how old that means they are, whether they'll be fruit bearing or not, and when they will produce fruit. You don't do that. Your explanations are thorough and complete and yet never condescending. We really appreciate it.
i have watched so many videos on this and got more and more confused and intimidated by the blackberries. This is , by far, the best video. I'm glad you let it get so bad so we could see how to fix similar messes. thank you
So glad to hear that! I felt the same way after watching a ton of other videos. Wasn't sure if I hit the nail on the head so thank you for the feedback!
Great video !!!!! Just wanted to clarify I live in California we really don't have a winter ....but we do have a few cool months end of November through Feb is this the time I should do my 1st prune and then again in June ......thanks so much
Me too, looks like I have a bush that produced not much, and new canes sprouting over the sidewalk that produced. It is growing away from the trellis. Frustrating.
After watching several videos on pruning trailing blackberry vines yours was the clearest, the most relevant, and the most helpful. Thank you for such a great video. I was able to prune blackberry vines correctly today because of your explanation.
Have had blackberries that look like the start of this video for awhile now because I’ve never quite had it explained to me in a way that made sense to this VERY amateur gardener. This video clicked. Going to take back control of my blackberries and looking forward to a much better harvest and garden next Spring. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing, blackberries are very productive, got 11 pounds from one plant. Erect variety ,Kiowa, one plant , one stalk coming out of the ground 7foot , topped it grew out the lateral branches cut them at 5 ft, 4 ft 3 ft 2ft , to the top . An got 11pounds , this plant also got 8hrs of direct sunlight, with some organic homemade compost 😍, sweetest berries I’ve ever had , also a large size fruit.
I'm managing a Boysenberry plant i bought from Knott's Berry Farm and i got very concerned that it produced maybe 10 berries and then seemingly started to die. However this has shined some light on what it's doing now that its past harvesting time. I have a primocane that has started to branch off without intervention, but I also have another that's a singular that is not approaching 5' when it was just a little sprout 6 weeks ago. Oh, I forgot to mention im doing this all inside an apartment. 🙂
I followed your directions last year with our blackberry plants! Wow! What a harvest we are having, here in N Ireland blackberries only ripen in September October and we have so so many it’s amazing so thank you! ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Oh thank goodness. I just moved onto a small property that has Himalayan blackberry plants sprawling all over the beginning of the garden, their getting big. I'm so thankful you have a video out on them. Now I can learn!!
I have never pruned my blackberry/boysenberry jungle but this year I have a huge crop. I will definitely clean it up this winter and redo my trellis that is sagging under all the weight.
@@BlackJesus8463 we had almost none, which is a little unusual, but I have irrigation to keep them happy. I can report that pruning them and putting them up on trellis resulted in a huge crop this year.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge about growing blackberries. I planted my Blackberry about a year and a half ago and I was so shocked to see how fast the blackberry vine grew!. It is definitely about 10 ft now. I'm so glad I came across your video . I will be cutting back the main cane and cleaning up the ground around my Blackberry this weekend.😊 Many thanks!
I just found this and am so grateful 🤩 I plan on planting some next year-this year I’ll get my area ready. As a kid we used to go berry picking & had to bring a ladder to reach the higher ones 🤣. As a kid it looked as big as a 2 story house!! Haven’t seen any like that since. Thanks for the pruning tips❣️🧤
Fantastic! It was bad for you that you didn't prune when you should have, but it let us see what to do and how the canes should look after winter pruning. Thank you.
This video was so awesome. Thank you! I had a 21 foot cane that i grew horizontally along the trallis, and back. You are right, no side shoots. This winter there was so much snow the rabbits started to eat at the bark and it destroyed the cane.
I am so glad that you did this video. I have ignored my thornless,trailing blackberry plant that I got as a gift this spring. (Zone 7B). I got no fruit this season, most likely the soil is poor in that area (Needs more NPK). I will add more compost and mulch. Some of the cans have rooted itself in the soil. So I need to prune now, like you suggested for next year's harvest.
It was very helpful to me because it’s so much real life. Many times viewers are fixing a problem that occurred. We need to know exactly how to fix it. It addressed everything very well!
I planted bare root plants last Summer. This summer dealt with the deer pruning them to the ground. Until I put up the deer fence I wasn't getting any growth so this summer I didn't have berries yet. So I have young plans with no old canes as of yet. This was a very good video as I want to do what's necessary to allow these young plants to grow and prosper me berries. Thank you Brian
Thank you for sharing excellent information for me that did not know anything about berries. I just did my blackberry transplant and raspberry. I also bought two blue berry plants December 2019 and I am so happy because they are both startec to bloom. I can't wait for my black berry to grow and bloom. Your video excellent, well explained now I know what to do for my berry plant, thank you 🤗👍🌱
Great info! I bought two small blackberry starter plants a couple of years ago and little knowledge of how they grew or what to do with them. They both grew these massively long canes last year and fortunately I came across a video a few months ago that mentioned pruning them down in late winter, so I did that and wow, they have got so many beautiful side branches on them now and my berries are growing beautifully (exciting!). Thanks to your video I now know to prune them this summer after my harvest. Thanks!
In the UK there seem to be loads of wild varieties. The trailing ones are very obvious but less common. Some of the trailers are super sweet. I picked 4 large plastic containers worth today in about 3 hours - all different varieties mixed together. Occasionally you can find u7a trailer bush with exceptionally large super juicy sweet ones. Often they grow very tall in hedge rows so only the birds get the best one. their growth seems amazingly vigorous too
So incredibly helpful! I inherited a huge bramble that’s completely out of control. I now know how to attack it and hopefully get berries eventually to make jellies. Thank you!
Great information. I planted my first blackberry plant. It has been very warm the past 2 months here in N. cal and it’s only June. So, the plant was struggling. I had to adjust the watering schedule. With your tips I’m looking forward to next season.
Thanks. That was everything I needed to know. Maybe one thing that was missing was what to do with a new plant after planting. And I got reccomendation to cut it at around 30 cm to encourage growth of the roots.
LOL, this is exactly what happened to my blackberries and i had like 3 clusters of fruits and the birds got to them before I did. I literally just let them grow and be feral plants. Thanks for this video!
Thank you so much, Brian! I think it was a very clear and complete tutorial. I just planted my first blackberry plants, so I make sure I follow your instructions on how to prune them this summer after they fruit.
This was so incredibly helpful! I popped in to learn how to take care of olallieberries but you made me understand what I’ve been doing wrong with my raspberries, so that was an added bonus! Thank you, thank you!
Thank you for such a helpful video. I also live in Southern California but in San Diego. It is January and my canes are still Fruiting! It is hard to tell sometimes because it doesn’t get cold enough always for all the leaves to fall off so identifying the floricanes from the primocanes is sometimes a challenge. Your video showed clearly which canes were which, so hopefully, I will trim the correct ones. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience
I just got my first blackberry. It’s a “Chester” thornless. Thank you for explaining so well. It looked a little miserable when I brought it home a few weeks ago. It has one older main Cain and two pretty side shoots. It is late Fall here in California. Hoping it does well.
Thanks Brian, I needed this info from scratch. You explained blackberry growth so clearly. Appreciate you sharing your vast knowledge and experience! Greetings from SFO bay area! 👩🏻🌾🐝🌱
Good video, and perfectly timed. My blackberry canes are in about the same condition as yours. The only difference is that I DO want some more plants. Several of my over-grown canes are in the rooting phase now, so I'll use some of those for new plants, and prune the rest as you showed. Thanks!
I’m fairly new to your thread. I’m looking at past threads and found this one on pruning blackberries. My blackberries finished producing about a month ago, and I was wondering how I should prune them. After watching your video, I was able to go out and prune my plant to five new mega canes that are about six feet high. I clipped the end off of each cane, so the growth will now go into all the little side shoots that I see coming out at many of the leaf junctures. I am now hopeful for lots of side shoots with LOTS of big berries next year. NOW, will you please tell me how to keep the cardinal pair, that seems to this this bush is THEIRS, out of the bird netting we put around the bush this Spring??? We think we have all the holes plugged and then we see one of them inside the netting snagging berries!!! AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!
This was wonderful, dear friend. Thank you for your knowledge. It broke my heart to see you beat yourself up for not pruning - it's okay!! You're doing so great, you're so inspiring. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's okay to make mistakes.
Next Level Gardening, Great video and pointers. My question is ; when do / can I (supposed )to transplant a sprout ? I tried several times ( most likely at the wrong time, Lol ) but they die... What am I doing wrong ? What kind of soil ( around a creek ) ? Any fertilizer needed ? La. resident ...
Boy am I so pleased that I found this video as I have done exactly the same through ignorance, but having now watched this I realise just how stupid I have been! OK so I'm about 2 months late but I guess that today I need to get all the old-growth cutout and just harvest what I have this season. Question: Can let last years primocanes ground to root for a new plant or is that only this year's new growth that will produce a new plant?
Have only pruned my blackberries every 10 years or so. They are quite bushy and most of the fruit is on the top and sides. Some inside. Then when they are really too much , I clearcut them to the ground right after fruiting. Seems to work and is really easy!
mine only fruited just this year. it got a new shoot and im watching it grow and seeing about maybe using the top as a cutting and rooting it. do you root the cuttings? or can they not be rooted?
Found a wild berry bush behind the house. 3 stalk visible, old cane that was dried , this years fruiting cane and I’m guessing a new, thick long shoot, but it was damaged at the base. Will the plant return or have new shoots if that newest cane is gone?
Dont feel too bad buddy becoz i also allowd my primocanes to grow like u did without prunng at all. Now i learned from ur and my own experience. This yr ill definitely cut this yr vines at 5 ft. I scrwed up my plants like u did but atleast i learned from my mistake
California Garden TV I keep thinking about growing them because I have the room, the problem is that I wanted grow everything and I am so afraid I won’t have the time to take care of everything, now I better think hard if I should grow them knowing I have to prune them in order to have fruits, lol...is there any other varieties doesn’t require pruning?
My favorite is a berry and cream homemade puff pastry/pastel. Or as we call it pasteles de frutas 🍇 topped with a little bit of cinnamon and powdered sugar.eaten with or without vanilla ice cream. Warm or cold.
Great explanation Brian! Those look very pokey...gloves needed! Interesting...do raspberry plants behave this way ? (I've never had any berry plants besides a few hanging strawberry plants). What a difference from before and after!
I'm glad to have found your video to learn about pruning. You said once the primo cane touched the ground and rooted, you can dig it out and plant it somewhere else, can you not dig it out and just let it grow where it is? Thanks.
Thank you for very informative video!I have 1 year old bushes planted too close together. i did not prune them in summer , they did nt fruite. My question is how to replant , prune and fertilize . top of the bushes dried. I am a new garderner, please help. Thank you!
Thank you for explaining this....i think i get it now. Im a newbie gardenere. Here in Cali its fall now and i never pruned my blackberries. I did top it off tho 😁. I got some SUPER LONG side shoots that grew this season. Do you have to wait till winter to prune? Its fall and my blackberry plant leaves are brown now....i think its going into dormancy 🤔
Excellent video and like the segments too!!! Finding that this is a great time of year to prune! Have 9, 50 foot rows of triple crown thornless blackberries 😊. We don’t do the best with pruning but keep trying to get better. Any advice for weevils? Thanks , Kristy in Missouri zone 6b😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
June July pruning .....noooooo.....and if I cut them back now (Oct) I'll get even less .....thanks for the info to get on track to a bountiful harvest.
Couple of questions- What zone are you in? State? What time of year is best for doing the severe pruning to shore on your video? I like in Michigan and am wanting to attack my hedge before the snow flies!
Just found your channel - thank you! We just moved onto property that has a number of LARGE wild blackberry brambles. Since discovering them (and harvesting tons of berries) this summer, I want to work on taming the craziness and ideally increasing production for next year. What you showed in this video is pretty much what I want to do (cut out dead canes - which now include the ones that fruited this summer), and prune primocanes. Can I also dig up and transplant the primocane structures so I can arrange them on trellises for easier management going forward? If so, when would be the best time of year to move them?
This was good to watch thk u unfortunately i left mine and its now spring w flowers but not many i need to prune desperately i realise thks again what do we say? Oh yeah n... nxt year 😂😂
