A couple of years ago Heron Breen (a NAFEXer who we don't hear from
lately) sent me several wild(?) selections of Main blackberry to trial here
in zone 3 Minnesota. I planted some in full sun and some in mostly shade.
The variety named "Thibodeau", those growing in mostly shade, are doing
something I've not ever seen in any bramble. It has green fruit ready to
ripen and primocanes that are 5' to 6' high and now some of the primocanes
are blooming and some are not. I know there are those (who haven't seen it)
who will insist they are not really primocanes but if they were to dig down
below the soil line to where these primocanes originated; definitely
primocanes.
Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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[NAFEX] Half primocane blackberry,
Jim Fruth, 07/07/2007