Triple Crown Blackberries - trellising and care
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Trellising blackberries/raspberries with conduit? Any pictures?
Comments (25)I'll come post a pic tomorrow after I take one. It's far from a perfect system but was adapted from need. I used thin wood strips to make a crisscross loose lattice "fence" of sorts. It allows me to tie back at various heights. Mine is pretty much a berry forest though at this point and my raspberries are 5-9 feet tall depending on which type (the really tall ones flop over) I think with only two plants you have a lot if time to decide at least on the raspberries. You may find that you will need to charge your system later on based on growth. Our marionberries (blacks) we grow along a metal lattice fence as they like to go up and around then back down to tip root, and that's where the new growth comes up. The farm where I do you pick, the have wooden posts and metal wire in between (three or more in intervals) and wrap the brambles up and around that which seems like a good system for a raised bed....See MoreTriple Crown and Chester blackberry question
Comments (7)My canes are trained on the trellis. I have tried to tip them at 42-48" to force the laterals to grow. Some canes, I leave long to let the tips grow roots for more plants. I have also read that training them to the ground and covering them to insulate them for the winter is an alternative. Those canes get thick and to get them to lay on the ground will be a challenge, let alone the amount of work (if you have a lot of them) and them to train and weave them back on the trellis in the spring. I may try a section and see if that can work? I also read that a "V" trellis may be the answer in that the floricanes are on one side and the primocanes on the other. This way they are separate and it would be easier to cover and insulate. Insulating them on the ground would be easier, plus the snow helps to insulate from the frigid weather...See MoreTriple-Crown Blackberry ID affirmed despite erect growth habit
Comments (14)Wrong, TCStoehr. It works with 3 wires, or even 2. TC canes grow so long, so fast, that you can totally eliminate any support wires below 3 feet, as has been pointed out in the initial post on this thread. When weaving canes, the point is not to bend them so much that they break or are damaged. That is best achieved by fewer support wires, not more. Once you get them woven through one side of the wires, and over the next, your work is essentially over. They will usually stay in position, even when covered with berries the following season. Of course, they also grow in laterals that should be cut off at 3-4 feet in length, and these may be pinned to the wires with tape or plastic covered wire if desired. Or, if they are not too low, they can be allowed to droop. Of course, you can have as many support wires as you like. But you will soon find that most of them are useless. If you have not grown TC before you are about to meet one of the most vigorous of all fruiting plants. Control is the name of the game with these things. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MoreTriple Crown Blackberry & Caroline Raspberry
Comments (3)10-10-10 12 inches from plant 2 sides 2 tablespoons full right on that drip tubing for one side they need nitgron it take 2 weeks to show in plant. Move that mulch back from plants 2 feet it also need the nitgron to decompose robbing your plants. Cows have 5 stomachs there mature there manure has almost no value for plants. foilage feeding plant help in 3 days for 7 day until soil apply take on. if plants look better in 30 days time for more 10-10-10 growing wildly is good time to fertilize you want to be ready for september growth berry plants can double in size at that time year its cooler then. Water is 5 gallons summer per week and 5 gallons every 3 weeks winter berry plants like it alittle on dry side in soft soil root pushing not that great on berries. I click on your photo and looked at your album the planting and care looks great there just hungry. This winter there will be growth under ground in root zone that part plant never goes dormant when sap goes down you want it to be rich so roots fill soil when cane coming out the ground gets to 1 inch are more in diameter you can slow down with fertilizer. Are your prunning be a problem. This is not only way to fertilize berry plants but its one you need now this winter you can start 4x4x4 with horse manure 4 foot by 4 foot by 4 inches thick maintane 4 inches thick all seasons wet this release the compost tea into soil of root zone....See Morejcjrogers
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