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["Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

I probably can't help you much with flavor, since it's an even more
subjective term than sweetness.  I can say all the blackberries I mentioned
don't have any of a watered down type flavor (if that's what you mean).  All
of them are pretty intense.  I've never had anyone complain they were bland.

I prefer a sweeter blackberry that doesn't require added sugar.  They seem
to taste better when they sugar up themselves.  They're also easier to sell.

As was mentioned, there's no comparison between store-bought blackberries
vs. cane ripened.

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Kacalanos" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] flavorful blackberries?


Thanks for the info, but I wasn't asking about sweetness. If I want
sweetness, I can add sugar. What I want from fruit is flavor, and I haven't
detected much in any of the blackberries I've tried so far.

I enjoy black raspberries, which someone mentioned, since they have a nice
distinctive flavor. We have some wild, and also planted some.

Melissa

--- On Tue, 11/30/10, Mark Angermayer <> wrote:

> From: Mark Angermayer <>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] flavorful blackberries?
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 8:50 AM
> I've grown several of the moderately
> hardy blackberries (as opposed to West
> Coast varieties):
> Arapaho
> Ouachita
> Navaho
> Apache
> Triple Crown
>
> I'm also familiar w/ Chester. Although I haven't
> grown it, I've sampled it
> from a U-pick fairly close to here.
>
> Of all the above Triple Crown is the sweetest berry.
> If picked when fully
> ripe, it's plenty sweet. I do get a little dieback of
> Triple Crown here in
> zone 6. For zone 5 Apache would probably be a better
> bet. It should be
> sweet enough for you, though not quite a sweet as Triple
> Crown. Apache
> produces huge berries.
>
> Mark
> Kansas



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