[Market-farming] Blackberry Problem

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu May 29 09:11:31 EDT 2008


On May 29, 2008, at 8:40 AM, TxBeeFarmer wrote:

> I've brought this up before, but never really found an answer.  Maybe
> someone will know this time.
>
> I have three kinds of thornless blackberries.  They grow great and look
> great, but no berries, or at least very few.  They bloom in great 
> numbers,
> but after the blooms, what look like immature berries, just dry up and 
> never
> mature.  What could be happening?
>
> Thanks
>
> TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
> West Texas Zone 7b

Some years ago (it may have been as many as twenty years ago) there 
were some thornless blackberries on the market that turned out to be 
sterile. Maybe you somehow got some of those?

I don't remember the variety or the company, I did buy a few (and 
tilled them in) but it was a long time ago and my recordkeeping wasn't 
as good then as it is now; so it would take me more time to locate that 
info than I have at this time of year. I'm pretty sure they were only 
on the market for a year or so, though, and were withdrawn as soon as 
the problem had been figured out; this would have been probably the 
late 1980's. So tbis might well not be the explanation, depending on 
how and when you got the plants.

Back to trying to make it rain by spending more time hooking up drip 
tape --

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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