Since planting these vines two years ago, they are starting to explore in every direction with their vigorous growth. I planted around four vines on a t-post fence, I have been training them and making sure they grow on it instead of trying to leave the fence and start a new blackberry journey somewhere else. As soon as one of these vines reach the ground, they shoot in roots and try to start a whole new plant. So I must be ready to tie them back and train them back into the fence regularly.
I had no idea there were thornless blackberries until about five years ago, I had great success with them where I used to live. So I was glad to start some in my new home. And now they are starting to really produce. Once planted it takes a year or two for them to get used to their surroundings, but once they do get ready!
The size of the vines forming along with their leaves tells me the plant is quite happy.
They tend to fruit in the summer and then again in the fall. Though eating the berries in summer is more recommended. As by the fall many bugs are also feeding on them and some of them can get gross. But you can still find good ones among them and have a tasty treat in the fall.
Soon I will have extra plants to pull up and I can start more vines somewhere else. As every time they reach the ground I will pull them up and use them as rooted plants ready to go. I think I will add them to the fences that encloses my third acre area.
I need to work them more into the middle, it seems the plants on both ends are doing the best. So I work their vines to areas not yet covered.
Eventually I will run out of room on this fence, so it will be good to find a new spot to grow more.
When the winter comes around these plants will drop their leaves and go dormant. But the vines will remain and wait until warm weather comes back around the following year.
The plant seems more resistant to bugs than most, I rarely have to do anything to protect these. Japanese Beetles will be my biggest problem, but that is with nearly every plant..lol almost as bad as a plague of locus.
This must be one of my fastest growing plants, if you have never grown one its hard to imagine. Just has much vigor as the native blackberry plants, but with none of the blood loss..lol
But really glad to have them, I used to climb through wild blackberry groves to collect them, I would get all cut up and my clothes would get torn from all the thorns on the native kind. But picking berries from the thornless variety is much more enjoyable. I also think the thornless berries are much bigger. And just as tasty if not even more delicious.
This plant is amazing. I love them
Yes they sure are. But they need chill hours to form, not sure if they can grow where you live?
You always succeed in doing something related to agriculture, I have to admit it, it's not easy to learn the science of successful farming, whatever plant you plant will certainly grow optimally, even though there are always diseases that come to the plant, you always get a solution on how to overcome it, I think you are a very reliable farmer of mine.
It seems that this berry tastes very delicious, so far I have never tasted how the berry tastes 😊🙏
Ah thank you, I have had many years of gardening to help me along. But its is all coming together now and I am quite glad I have all this space to try growing new plants on.
Oh wow, you need to try a blackberry.. some can taste a little tart, others are very sweet.
Whatever our work if it is done well, it will certainly get good results, as the saying goes, effort never betrays results, are these words really my friend? 😊
Iya benar,terapu buahnya seperti sulit saya temukan di daerah saya teman ku.
So true, we call it "the fruits of labor"
Oh well hope you can find some one day, maybe you can grow a thornless blackberry plant just to try the fruit. Takes about 1-2 years to mature to bear fruit. But they do require chill hours, not sure how many you get a year.
I agree with that. Never tried growing those plants.. but I really like eating the berries.😄😄
The berries are sure are tasty, I eat handfuls of them at a time..lol
You're so lucky about it.😊😊
Thornless blackberries are fabulous ! I've got one that's at least 15 years old; it was mature when we moved in, so no idea how long ago the previous owners planted it. It still produces masses of new vines every year, if anything the problem is keeping it trained and under control.
It might be an age thing, but I've found that when it roots itself the new vines from the fresh root can sometimes be spiky. Likewise new plants that grow from any blackberries that drop onto the ground and grow. The birds drop quite a few all around the garden, so a job every spring and autumn is to go round and find them all so we don't wake up one day with an impenetrable mass of brambles 😁
Oh that is cool you got a mature vine already growing.. I am only imagine how many berries it produces and the work it requires to keep it trained.. lol ours is a lot of work as well.
Yeah I think those spikes is what drives into the ground and starts a new plant when they touch the ground.
hah I feel ya, I need to stay on top of my vines otherwise it will become quite a mess.
I have only raspberries in here does blackberries have the same resilience??
Blackberries are even more hardy where I live.
I used to have a Raspberry bush, it lived for a good 5 years and then got a disease. But maybe they grow better here in Virgnia. I should try again honestly.
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I wonder if that thornless blackberry is similar to mulberry since they look 100% similar. I am currently growing something like that but so far, it looks like it's dead despite I've been watering them daily 🤣
Oh cool, I think mulberries grow in trees vs blackberries grow as vines.
Hope yours comes back, probably best to check the soil before watering. If its too much water you can also kill it.. plants are picky like that.
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That time is already long over, over here
Slowly winter crawling upon
Soon it will be winter here too.. getting the wood furnace ready for a long winter.
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Bigger fruit - there can be no doubt about it. After all, where man gives nature a slightly different direction, the result is usually something bigger and fatter. Smaller would have been boring.
As far as the more intense flavour is concerned, it is much more difficult for me to agree with you. One of the advantages of living completely surrounded by almost untouched nature is that it keeps on giving, year in and year out. Of course, I don't have to ask.
The neighbour planted the grafted variety because she wanted the blackberries (like you) as a treat and as a natural fence around the garden. That's why it's easy for me to do comparisons and difficult for me to define the flavour.
What I do know, however, is that he does a lot of pruning in the autumn.
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Oh very cool, yeah those blackberry vines can surely make a natural fence. That is cool they were grafted, I have yet to play around with stuff like that.. maybe one day.
The worst solution would probably be to leave the blackberry plants to their own devices. This means that grafted varieties are totally overloaded and "forget" flowering and fruits.
Blackberries is one of my favorite fruits I always ate. But sadly the plants we have here are already dried. I started to plant black berry trees again. You have a healthy black berry plants in there my Friend.
Oh nice.. yeah I like them too..
Hope yours come back soon
Yes Sir, We're propagating it back again. 😊
Blackberries vines ... wow!
The leaves are really so perfect...
Yep! We got them wild around here too but they are full of thorns.
They sure are pretty
As someone who lived in the Hiddens of Oregon I got to say the thorn-less blackberry is sorely (pun intended) needed..
Hah yep, I will never go back to picking them wild.. too much pain and blood loss.
I too have the thornless variety and you do have to keep on top of them as those trailers root everywhere. I have mine kept in check by my local deer population here in western, N.Y. I see you are from Virginia. My brother is up visiting from Hurt, Va. and he is enjoying our cooler weather right now. Happy gardening.
We used to go search for these Vines in the forests when I was younger, just for their very juicy berries.
It grows so well on your farm and I'm sure you will enjoy them for a long time as soon as they start producing berries.
Memories are what these vines brings to me, I haunted them because they grew in the forests and the berries were just too delicious. So you mean they now have the domesticated version?
berries for summer is good, at least there is a little refreshing touch in the beautiful summer.
I wish I had that too. I only have mulberries. =)