I bought some at Big Lots for the grandkids. In reading the labels, I didn't think they were much more than glorified fruit juice with added vitamins but the kids liked them. I think I could give the kids fruit juice and a daily vitamin more cheaply and without as much sugar. Annie

HA! I had no pips on Wednesday but yesterday, Thursday, just a day later, during a break in the rain, I spotted dozens and dozens of them! WooHoo! Okay, they were barely half an inch high, and if it wasn't for the purple color I might have noticed nothing, but I always worry about them when we get a lot of snow (like this year) and I'm feeling much relieved now. What a difference a day made.

If you pinch the tips they will branch and be bushy but as the canes get older the thorns get worse. They can get thick so picking berries can be like a dangerous easter egg hunt.... sometimes you get too eager going for the fruit and get a sharp stab. I currently have them in those blue water barrels cut in half. The ones cut length-ways are in wood frames to keep from tipping over and sit on cement patio fruiting for 2yrs+. Another barrel I cut width-ways so about 17in deep 24 wide also survive winter snow on cement patio. Just make sure something blocks the wind. I know it can get brutal especially further out Long Island, that can cause tip burn or if you're closer to shore you may have a bit of salt in it so you can cover canes with tarp but you need rain and snow to get to soil during winter so mulch or frost blanket over ground at bottom.

yes at ground level.. and throw the whole mess into the fire pit ... lol .. let me put it this way ... how do you know.. you wont cut off the one live part ... which part do you choose to amputate?? just leaf it alone ... ny right ... in my MI ... after ground freeze winter.. many things still seem to show some green.... potential life.. until the high heat of july and august suck all the remaining life out of it ... they never recover from it.. plus you throw in your transplant ... whats going to be pumping water into it ... ken