[Market-farming] Blackberry Problem

Richard Robinson rrobinson at nasw.org
Thu May 29 17:05:52 EDT 2008


 On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:29:09 -0500, TxBeeFarmer wrote:
> The plants look very healthy.  I agree, it looks like a lack of pollination,
> but that doesn't make sense.  I'm a beekeeper and the hives are about 50
> yards away.  I have noticed the bees turn up their noses at the berry blooms.
>  Perhaps there are other more savory blooms nearby - although I doubt it.
>>> 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?


Every year I have a few raspberry plants whose berries get hard and desiccated rather than plump and juicy. It's isolated to a few plants surrounded by healthy ones, making me think it's a root-derived problem (these are fall-bearing on primocanes). I thought I had a description and picture in my diseases book, but I couldn't find it today. But I wouldn't say mine look like immature berries, more like mummies of a real raspberry. 

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