We love blackberries, and have tried growing them from cultivated nursery grown and from a wild cuttings, the latter was really too small to survive. Does anyone in the North Canterbury area know where we can get wild blackberries, and/or a rooted cutting. They would be grown in a tunnel or greenhouse to avoid spread to neighbouring areas.
You need to be a member of ooooby3 to add comments!
Hey I planted a thornless bramble last year and was really disappointed as it didn't even flower let alone berry
Do they usually take two years to fruit?
Are they for me ? If so , I would be hugely grateful.
Went to the Rare Fruit Society budding an grafting workshop last week an came home with many more 'babies' to grow - then enjoy an share...
Richard Watson > Julie-Rose EUINGAugust 3, 2010 at 9:35am
The Marionberry are a cross between Olallieberry and Chehalem blackberry,so i would think that any "babies" would be a hybrid cross, so there for you wont get the true Marionberry, but hey i'm sure a Chehalem and Olallie combo would be still just as nice.
Please make sure you only plant thornless blackberries as the thorny types are such a problem an easily spread by birds. If you find someone with one growing;
bury the end of the cane slightly - in a few weeks roots will have formed. Cut an repot. Grow inside a large circle of dogwire for ease of pick an retaining it - it can grow beserk! Don't grow it in the veg garden - give it it's own spot - preferably next to a building for the water runoff and protection - they love it.
I met a man on Stewart Island who had harnessed a wild blackberry that had especially good fruits, fed and pruned it, tied it to wires and has enjoyed the results for several years now. In an area where there are wild blackberries anyway, it's hard to argue that this is not a good idea :-)
I agree- In Australia we are inundated with wild blackberries and it is a REAL problem. Mainly spread by birds. Not everyone is going to be so dissaplined and control the wild varieties - of which I have never tasted one that is great or particularly big - I reacon go for the thornless/controllable variety. play it safe and protect our invironment.
Replies
Do they usually take two years to fruit?
Went to the Rare Fruit Society budding an grafting workshop last week an came home with many more 'babies' to grow - then enjoy an share...
bury the end of the cane slightly - in a few weeks roots will have formed. Cut an repot. Grow inside a large circle of dogwire for ease of pick an retaining it - it can grow beserk! Don't grow it in the veg garden - give it it's own spot - preferably next to a building for the water runoff and protection - they love it.
-
1
-
2
of 2 Next