Triple Crown Pedigree: Carbondale 47 x Arkansas 545 So your seedlings may revert towards one of those two blackberry parents that created the 3crown hybrid, you can research those two. Seedlings are not easily confused with suckers; the seedlings are truly tiny plants with tiny root systems. One pull and you know.

Crown blackberries should be big at planting time just after fruits get into green stage new canes should a pier then again after fruiting ends. Zone 5 pushing limit of time for blackberry plant do its thing I hope you have all sun you funnel in to plants reflective heat would help as in warm place by tin wall on North side plants. If canes flowering now 13 June after 3 to 4 weeks from now July 14th there be change first year all ways slower.

lonesome: TC plants should not be blooming on this seasons' new growth; only on laterals growing on canes that existed when you planted them. I would not take out any healthy canes from plants that are well-spaced and supported by a trellis at least 6 feet high. Don't build a low trellis for this berry, and plants should be spaced at least 4 feet apart to give them adequate room. I would just space the canes out a little and tie them to the wires as they grow upward, then top them off when they reach about 6 1/2 feet. Leaving strong canes in place will greatly increase your berry production next summer, and completely removing healthy canes will just cut that production. The best production on this berry takes place from about 3 feet upward. There is no need to encourage rapid upward growth on these berries. They are extremely vigorous. You don't have to grow in laterals on new primocanes now. The plants will do that in the spring of 2007 when they get ready to produce, assuming they winter over successfully. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

You can keep as much growth as your trellis will support, however, there is a compromise here between retaining most of the growth, gambling that there will be little or no transplant shock, or pruning about half the growth off and allowing for transplant shock--and possibly better growth of next year's primocanes. If you don't need a lot of berries next year, I would prune by about half. If that leaves dozens of leaf nodes, it will result in hundreds of berries next year. Triple Crown will fruit quite low on the main cane.