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

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Fall bearing blackberries

Fall bearing, in this case, means producing fruit on the primocanes, like fall bearing raspberries.  That is, if the plants freeze to the ground in the winter, the new shoots that come up in spring will still bloom and have a crop by late summer.  It would be a boon to northern growers.  And I found out there IS work on such types being done at Arkansas, with the possibility of some varieties being released in a year or two.

-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on The Grape Grower at http://www.bunchgrapes.com

> From: "victoria l. caron" <vicaron@gis.net>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:45:53 +0000
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fall bearing blackberries
>
> Lon, I don't know about any variety names, but there was something in Medieval England about not
> picking blackberries after Michaelmas. Maybe some blackberries are late ripening, but not 'fall'
> - I picked right into October this year because there had not been a frost yet and in one place
> they were just starting to ripen. ........vic