That is a fine video. Have the "dead" berries fallen, shriveled, or rotted? Recently transplanted mature caneberries can do strange things, I would wait until next year to see if they behave better. There may have been enough energy stored in the plants to do everything but fruit properly. The vigorous primocane growth shows that your transplant method was fine.

Hi all!! I'm new to growing gourds, and while I know this is a pumpkin thread, I have been looking for an answer to why my luffa vine's female flower's start out appearing healthy and happy, but soon turn yellow and never full mature. I'm wondering if the same explanation might apply to this branch of the gourd family as well. I've had some healthy female flowers, 7 to be exact, on a vine that is easily 30 feet long (with all of its branch offs). I'm very mindful of the females because I'm told that one healthy vine can support up to 30 good sized loofah (luffa) gourds. I currently have 5 growing, and I believe a 6th was successfully pollinated by hand as were the previous 5. I contacted the site owner of luffa.info and he suggested I might have a fungus issue, or the water here in West Palm isn't all that great, but I can't find a definitive answer, and this is the only vine I have and I was hoping for a healthy crop of loofahs for gifts, but unless I figure out the reason for poorly maturing females...there's no way I'm gonna see even half that amount. Do you think it could simply be a matter of the vine needing to grow more in order to support more fruits? I only ask because while it's still branching, the rapid growth I saw over the last few months has slowed dramatically, and the vine may be close to, or has already reached it's maximum size. As best I can tell the vine is very healthy, and has been lightly fertilized, and I was hoping someone that's an experienced gourd grower, if not loofah, might be willing to help a newbie gardener. Any thoughts or possibly pointing me in the right direction if this is the wrong area in the forum to be inquiring about loofahs, would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks! 40Acres

The only Blackberries I have are wild and they grow, produce berries, die, grow, produce berries, die, and have for 35 years. Like other cultivated cane fruits Blackberries can be susceptible to some diseases and insects, so your Counties Extension Agent may be more correect than you want him to be. I periodically move my Raspberries so I can rebuild that bed they grew in and that may be something you need to do. Here is a link that might be useful: Blackberries

Can't tell from the image if this is mechanical or animal caused, it is not typical of insects or disease, unless adult beetles do this at mid-cane. Half of your blackberry vine represents how much of the entire blackberry planting? The vine as pictured is going horizontally, can't tell what the "top" half is. If the leaves end up turning brown, cut off all the damaged cane, plus half-way to the nearest green leaf. Sometimes berry canes end up getting kinked and it can be surprising what ends up surviving past the kink.