Game Changing Tip to Grow SUPERNATURAL Blackberries!
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I started pruning mine like this two years ago. Now I dehydrate the leaves of the new branches that I prune. It makes a very healthy herb tea.
There are some great benefits in DH the leaves. I learned that from Heidi over at RainCountry Homestead RUclips channel!
And She is of the Woods, on YT
Thanks! Eventually, I probably would have thought of that - but you speeded up that process! 🙂
How do I get my berries to be bigger. They are now 1/4 to maybe 1/2 inch. Yours looked double bigger.
@@marilynschroder7221 Maybe it’s the variety? The thornless berries seem to be bigger. Are yours thornless?
I just pruned my blackberries tonight before I watched this video. The canes were at least 8 ft tall so I chopped them in half. Ended up doing the right thing by accident!😂
I found that I got the same incredible production by training the prima canes into a horizontal orientation. Every leaf node put out a flora cane the next year and I got buckets of berries. Shout out to Stark Bros. for their thornless Triple Crown variety. It's the best!
My fruit book said to, in the Spring, to cut the main cane back by 18”, and cut all side shoots back by 6”. Which I did this Spring. My blackberry canes are LOADED. I’ve had to tie ropes across the fence to hold the canes off the ground. (They are planted in the inside corner of a fence which works really well!)
What book are you referencing?
My blackberry bush is a monster! Super productive this year. I think I will still try this to make the plant more manageable. Thank you luke!!
Nice! Grow Bigger! Volunteers are always the best plants😀!
I don’t know which kind of wildlife is doing it, but they keep dropping volunteer blackberries onto the lawn at the side of our house. Just one side.
I pull most of them, but two, I carefully dug around and transplanted. They’re growing like crazy, and I did just cut them back a few days ago. Now I know they should fruit up next year!
Can you do a video on small home green houses. What you should look for when choosing one. Kindest regards Louise
Thanks for the tip! I’m going pruning today!
I accidentally pruned mine properly because I just didn't like the long canes, because they were in my way when I walked past them.
Mine are getting caught on the mower and I'm feeling so validated that it'll be actually good to cut them back lol
Now you'll get a ton of berries~
The bugs pruned mine. Lol
Thank God for the birds. Thanks fir sharing
My blackberry bushes that are several years old have only produced two berries this year- so I cant wait to try this Luke!! As a fellow Michigan gardener, I appreciate the backyard tips so much! This channel is perfect!
💗Perfect timing!! I have some questions: Can I propagate the part that is cut off, and how to do it? Could I use the leaves for tea? Are these tips the same for red raspberry plants? My plants are growing like crazy!
Blackberries are pretty tough suckers! shave out the bottom of the spot you cut to expose more of the inner lighter green and dip it in rooting hormone, then stick it in some good quality potting soil and keep it watered for a few weeks, it'll start taking off once it puts down new roots!
My daughter has her Great-Granny's green thumb thankfully, and sticks the pruned canes right into the ground where she wants a new bush, water, throw some old coffee grounds around [they love acid soil], and POOF! now we have 5 raspberry bushes and a HUGE blackberry climbing a tree. Jam, pies, cobblers, ice cream, more jam! And yes, you can use the leaves for tea. I make all mine: apple, berries, cherry, red & white clover, lilac, rose, peach, pine, dead nettle, dandelion, plantain, practically everything in our yard that grows, and they're not irradiated, which takes all the good stuff out. Good luck~🌱🍋🥭🍎🍐🍑🍒🫐🍓🍄🌿🍀
P.S. onion skins are super-healthy when steeped in tea~✌
@@nadinefrandsen6087 yes, these tender leaves are the best for drying for tea!
Thank you all so much!!💜💜
Would this apply to raspberries as well?
Greetings from Germany!
My blackberry wall is gigantic
I prune them at 8 feet. They produce side shoots even before pruning them. And I cut those side shoots leaving them 2 nodes in late winter.
So they fruit at like 5 feet to 10 feet I get buckets of blackberries.
Underneath I planted summer raspberries, which I cut at 5 feet. These canes produce fruits until the blackberries start, so I have the double amount in the same space.
So it depends which varieties you plant. The Navaho ones are awesome, cause the grow straight upward. I have other varieties too with more but smaller canes, but they only grow like 5 feet tall. I will change them for more of the other ones.
But does it apply to US residents though? What's your planting zone?
AMAZING VIDEO. I think this one should go a million like your tomato plant video!!💕💕
I needed this info
Very helpful. I think the time is right for me to clip back my newbie blackberry and raspberry plants. Thanks for this! 🤗
Can you do this with raspberries, also?
Yes! We have a huge blackberry bush climbing a tree, and 5 new raspberries. My daughter sticks the pruned canes in the ground, water, and POOF! new berry bushes~
I looked up commercial pruning methods for best red raspberry fruit production and one of the items that came up was this PDF from the U of Alabama Ag. extension. The pruning advice starts on page 12 of the pdf. www.aces.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ANR-0896_CommericalProductionGuideBlackberryandRaspberry_030723L-G.pdf
I just did this with my raspberry bushes a little over a week ago and already new growth is coming off the shoots!
I will do that today! I just thought i wasnt ment to have fruit. Now I'm pumped for next year! Thank you! I enjoyed your info during the winter gardening clss as well.
Thanks for this information. Got a thornless blackberry last year and didn’t know any of this.
Wow thank you for sharing Luke 🙏 great video
Thank you so much for this! Question: should we do something with the canes that bore fruit at the end of the season?
What is done with the second year fruiting canes after it has produced berries?
Whow great tip , does it works for raspberry plant too ?
It works for all plants, just make sure not to prune more than 1/3 so they don't go into shock~
You had this video a few weeks ago. I have to say we always had wild blackcaps and a couple years ago I realized there are black raspberries and planted two varieties and they are Huge-the plants and berries! Heaven Can Wait and Black Magic are wonderful and spreading nicely.
Not sure, but I believe the branches need to be horizontal to grow fruit the best. Not sure if pruning the can is necessary.
I had volunteer passion fruit come up under my cattle panel trellis, so I let them grow. Didn’t know we could grow them here. Hopefully some will ripen.
Thanks so much for this video! Exactly what I needed! Have my first blackberry this year.
💫 a tuft of growth 💫
Now that was some cute editing
After my 4-year old grandson and I picked blackberries last year, I pruned the bush, and now it's climbed up into a tree! It's okay though, since all the canes go to the ground, where we can pick to our heart's content, like picking apples. Mild pruning is good for most plants. Just make sure you take no more than 1/3 so you don't shock it. Also, while berries are in production, pinch off any new canes or shoots so all the energy goes into making the fruit~🤩 #ILoveBerries 💜🫐
Thank you!
Very welcome @@Meakamea, and good luck~
Well...last year the deer "pruned" my raspberries and, yes, I had the best harvest ever! 😂 Guess I'll not worry so much about keeping new growth inside the fencing.
Thank you for the simple explanation/demonstration for blackberries. I think it was two years ago I had a bounty of Triple Crown blackberries and minimal the next two. I will have to examine my plant and see if I can do a proper pruning, if not now in the spring. At worst I will dig it up and get a new one.
Awesome advice..thanks
What would you recommend as a support for brambles? A lattice? Metal trellis? Or would they be better off in a location where they can spread freely and not block other plants?
Oh.. I'm doing this right now! ❤
Wow wow wow! I Love my blackberries and have been buying more bushes to get more production and I’m running out of space (I live in Southern California on a postage stamp size lot). I most definitely try your method. Perfect timing Luke! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much for your information.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am going to trim mine tomorrow!
GM☕️☕️. Thanks for the morning tip !
Have a great day 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Thank you for the tip. I bought 3 blackberry plants in the spring. I am going to try it.
Trifecta plus is worth every penny of the price I have experienced such a big difference in my food growth and production ty Luke
Me too
Great information. I just planted my 1st blackberry.
Yes! I'll get after it tomorrow. Thanks!
Great reminder to get on the blackberry pruning this or next week! Thank you - helpful and informative as always! Former Michigander living in the Virginia Piedmont - ten very productive blackberry plants - and hundreds of wild blackberries along the swales that lead to the creek! Great tips!🌿☀️🕊️🎉
Thanks so much Luke!
Interesting. I naturally just did this to manage the length and stability of the canes in the first year. This is harvest year and the harvest is solid with lots of side branches off the main cane. Glad I did and glad that you’ve confirmed what just felt natural to me.
I am totally excited about this. Thank you!
Awesome! Going to do this to my blackberries tomorrow!
i also have a blackberry bush that just started to grow out of my rain drain and i’ve just let it.
i’ve had fantastic growth for 3-4 years. but i do think i a going to prune it back heavily this year. it’s gotten huge
Brilliant! Of course! We've planted blackberries for the first time this year so I'll file this idea for the future. (Spent the last two years getting several varieties of red and black raspberries established.)
Great advice, Luke--thank you. 😊
Thank you for this info!! I have a Black Cap Raspberry also thanks to a bird!!! I’m going out today to see about pruning mine!!
Thank you so much Luke! I really needed this advice. Now I can grow big!😊
Great tip. I’m going to do this tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing this tip, I have no success of growing berries successfully , Hopefully my new black berry cane I ill try this method and get some fruits., Thanks a lot
Cool. I'll be doing this once my new bushes are properly established.
I have been looking into buying berry bushes next year but am still looking at what variety I want. I will use this method once I find the space I want them in.
Heading to my super long canes now, thank you!
Asking: do you have a video you may have done to suggest how to prune blueberries?
If there is, I need to see this too
Thank you for info
Thank you 🙏 Thank you 🙏 for sharing your knowledge
I've purposely let my blackberries and raspberries grow wild because I wanted them to form a thorny hedge around the perimeter of my garden. If I get some fruit out of them, that's a bonus, but they're primarily there to keep the pests at bay.
Funny my blackberries are a favorite spot for the ducks and cat to hangout under
For the variety I have, the tips produce fruit on the first year in the fall, then on the second year they grow fruit along the stem. I'm not saying you shouldn't prune them. But this year I had 2nd year growth (floricane) produce the fruit along the stem(ripen end of June), and the new "early" shoots (primocane) now have berries on them right now. Some of the shoots won't get berries before first frost though. The fall berries are always a race with the first frost in zone 6b. I'll have to try this pruning since the fall berries are so iffy if I'll get any due to frost.
Love this tip. I unfortunately cut a few overlong canes totally off to the main stem because they were getting in the way when trying to get to the veg beds on the other side. I know now what not to do or what I really should have done.
On the plus side there's loads of wild blackberries growing along the railway lines running by past our neighbourhood. So going to head there soon to find out what's ripe for picking.
Thanks Luke, I needed this info right now.
Can we prune blueberry bushes the same way?
No
Yes, pinch the tips of any new growth or shoots so all the energy goes into making berries. You can prune any bush to help them stay compact, or let them grow wild. Just make sure not to prune more than 1/3, as it can cause shock, then they could die. It's hard work making food for humans!
Great tip!
Thank you, finally a blackberry video that I understand!
This year I pruned mine in the spring and it did the exact same thing!
Thanks Luke!
Thank you so much for sharing this! Does this trick work with blueberries and raspberries as well?
I have a blackberry bush that I was about to give up on, but it sounds like there might be enough summer left to try this out and see what happens. Thank you!
I got two half-dead clearance blackberry plants last season around now. I amended the hole w/compost and tossed em in. They now span about 15-20 maybe even 30 feet of fence line! My wife is so excited about it and shes not the gardening type. Side note, my dogs are unintentionally doing a great job at this pruning method 😂.
I buried the super long runners last season so it's rooted about every 8 feet or so.
Edit (I re-watched and heard first year of the first year when he was at a u-pick) I have brand new bush this year. Do you have to wait a few years to prune that cane? I do see 1 or 2.
Great educational vid. I do this each year but didnt really realise how beneficial it was. Hope you don't mind but think ill be recreating this video for my own gardening channel 😊👌
This video is perfectly timed for me. My blackberries are rudely growing outside of their boundary, but I was fearful of cutting all that new growth, thinking I wouldn't get a crop next year (and I need it for my jam selling business). I will henceforth don the mosquito protective armor and carry my pruning shears into battle! Onward! (Also, thanks!)
Thanks. I know what I'm doing today.
Looks like you have thornless - my favorite 😍 Tipping canes is super important, yes!
Make sure to net them now to protect from the birds. #protectwhatyouvalue
We grow Triple Crown with very large fruit and the birds don’t bother them. We also have smaller fruited raspberries and blackberries which might attract the birds that would otherwise be in the big blackberries.
Thank you for this, gonna start clipping right away. this also goes for raspberry's ?
This information is so awesome. Thank you
Nice.
Thank you!
Can't wait to try this !
Excellent info!
Awesome! I needed this tip!
I had a similar experience. It took 3 years for my blackberry plant to adopt and yield fruit.
Perennials:
~Sleep
~Creep
~Leap
First year; focus on roots growing & developing.
Second year; roots and top both grow moderately.
Third year; top grows and produces more visibly as it matures.
Thanks for this! So i take it summer bearing raspberries would work the same way? Also wondering if you can propagate the cuttings? I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us!
Stick the cuttings in the ground, making sure your bush will have plenty of room, toss a handful of old coffee grounds around it [they love acid soil], water deeply, then let 'er rip! You'll have jam, cobbler, ice cream, muffins, cakes, pies, next year. Or eat them straight off the bush like my grandson~
@@deneseiB ill give it a try! Thanks for sharing!
I planted 5 Prime Ark Freedom blackberries this year and they're growing beautifully. But they're a primocane and I've never grown a primocane variety before. So, I'm not 100% certain what to do with them regarding pruning. I think I just cut them back in early spring like my Heritage Raspberries? I don't want to cut off their blooming ends. Can I get more info on primocane fruits?
Super-timely video! My canes were growing taller than the 8-ft fence they were growing against. The neighbor on the other side chopped them off. Jerk. But, I guess he was doing me a favor, although I would have preferred to do it myself, lol,
This is the time to tip root your canes Into 1 gal pots. Your neighbor could have done same thing and got free plants.
THANK YOU
Brilliant, thank you! Just planted my first two blackberries this spring. Is it too soon to prune those immature plants in this late summer time? I'm guessing that I shouldn't expect fruit next year, so I'm not inclined to avail myself of this super technique. But I will next year for sure!
Thanks so much for this video! I planted some blackberries for the first time this year in a large grow bag from bare root plants, so I assume that everything I see this year is primocanes? They are small but healthy plants putting out foliage like crazy. Do I wait to prune them until next year?
Great video. Question: Can the part of the plant that was cut off be planted for a new blackberry plant? Thanks.
When would you do this for a prima-cane variety?
Awesome, thank you
Great tip! Would this work with my raspberries too?
What is the benefit of taking off so much versus just the growing tip (2" or so)?
This is awesome! I'm going to attack mine with the slippers when I get home. Thanks! Any tips for getting more blackberry plants from cuttings. I've had no luck doing this with blackberries.
Slippers 😂
Hi Luke this is Brenda from the area 6b. We love your videos. Me and my fellow growers here in Michigan have been experiencing problems with our tomatoes this year I'm wondering what's going on we noticed that we are growing the bigger tomatoes but they're not getting big there's only getting the size of a baseball. Some of us are growing the big boy the big girl celebrities and we also noticed that they're just now beginning to turn red. Can you help is with this.?
Genius tip! I blame the birds also for my numerous black berry bushes. Now how to identify the species? 🤔
Can you transplant the blackberry bushes?
Awesome!
Can you do the same thing to blueberry bushes?