Primocane vs. florocane. The difference is huge in how you prune your raspberries and blackberries. In today’s video I will walk you all through how to tell what kind of raspberry or blackberry you have, how to prune them, and the key differences between the two major forms of berry.
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Are your brambles practically thorn less? Or are your fingers impervious to thorns?
All my wild Red and Black Raspberries and Blackberries can pierce decent gloves!
I've never seen two fruiting sessions on brambles.
If you have many rows of brambles… Prune wisely or wear armor!
Sufficiently watered Wild Black Raspberries taste spectacular!
You might want to address the potential for spreading plant disease moving from wild berry plants to your other garden plants.
I'm so glad for this reminder! I haven't hardened in a few years. (Maybe because I was caregiver for my 92 yo mother for nearly 4 years). We must have the floral- kind because I remember trimming only last year's canes before. I have some catching up to do!!
WHoever edits and posts your videos needs to get better about adding in the 'watch' this next vids, b/c this is the 4th or 5th time I've watched one where you've done that, gestured, and nothing has shown up. Good info on the pruning, though.
You have floricanes and primocans mixed up.. Primo canes produce 2 crops floricans produce in the fall.
Keep in mind, if you need to trim/prune back some of your new canes that haven't fuited yet you can make cuttings out of those to make more blackberry plants. I had a 75% success rate out of my cuttings last year.
….or lol you can just let them all leaf out and cut down the dead ones….the darn plant will spread everywhere regardless lol
Thank you Luke, you are so wonderful to share the knowledge you have. I appreciate everything you share. Once again, you have taught a valuable lesson.
I have red raspberries that fruit in late June to early July. Prune them to the grown every year and they grow nicely each and every year!
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Have you grown boysenberry?
In the PNW blackberries are like weeds. People pay a ton of money for blackberry removal. I trim mine down each year to a foot or so and they grow back 10-15' long canes forming a living shelter over a section of my chicken pen! Similar for my raspberries, but they stay in a bush that grows to about 8' high every year. I would like to thin them out, possibly using the cuttings to plan mtore elsewhere.
That would explain how we didn’t kill the wild black raspberries when hubby accidentally brush hogged them trying to remove the poke berries that are popping up everywhere
Every other video Ive ever seen have said primocanes are the ones thst fruit twice a year…
i have one florocane raspberry that I bought bare root from you guys and no raspberries this year. Should I do anything to it?
Thank You !!!
Thanks, Luke!