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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Root cuttings or tip layering are the standard ways to propagate
blackberries.
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>From: longdistshtr@shtc.net
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] Blackberry vine collection
>Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2001, 9:21 PM
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>Hi folks, this year in my area of SC is the most prolific
>of any year, I have ever seen.
>One group of vines is bearing fruit (drupe?) which is
>as big as some of those I've seen on commercial cultivars.
>Some of them are over an inch long.
>Now what do I do to save these vines? I know better than to
>disturb them in the growing season, but I don't want to 
>miss collecting a few of these vines.  I'm hoping that it 
>isn't a location or microclimate thing. 
>I tried to start some commercial varieties a few years back
>in a different location but they all got the virus that
>cause all the leaves to bunch up.
>Every year we are bothered by the wild vines and few dinky
>berries except this year and there are thousands and thousands.
>Doc Lisenby Zone 7/8 So. Car.
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