Hey everyone!
Found this little guy in my store-bought blackberries and couldn’t find much online about what to do. Any tips on helping it grow? Should I just cut it right under the growth and stick it in some soil?
I know I probably won’t ever get blackberries out of this, but it seems like a fun thing to try! 😊
Would love any advice—thanks!
by Jumpingdumpling007
10 Comments
Berry seeds need something called scarification. When a seed is eaten by animals it gets banged up and damaged and that tells the seed to start growing. I have been able to grow blackberry from seed by rubbing the seeds on sandpaper
That looks like a Himalayan blackberry… they are incredibly invasive and are very hard to get rid of. Very large and very difficult to get rid of from a garden. I would not recommend doing it for the sake of any of your other plants if it’s that species
Tip: Don’t plant invasive species. That’s how you get problems like Kudzu
It is better to buy a specific blackberry cultivar and grow that. You don’t know what the genetics for this are nor how it will grow. Blackberries are weeds and tend to take over areas
Advice: don’t plant it outside
What surface is this on? Looks really pretty
Every few months I go out with the weed Wacker and plow down raspberry and blackberry tangles. Even if it’s 95 out I have to wear long pants and high boots because of the ticks. Some of the ticks are the size of the period at the end of a sentence. I’m planting trees if I can, this is nuts
Don’t. Those blackberries are commercial blackberries chosen for durability, transportation, longevity in a store. You can find much better blackberries suited to your tastes and climate at the nursery.
Please don’t plant blackberries!! My yard is under CONSTANT attack from wild vines. They are so so so hard to get rid of, and the spread underground. Your whole neighborhood will be overrun in a matter of years. Please for the love of whatever you believe in, do not plant that berry outside
I think you’re on the right track, cut it underneath the growth and put it in a pot with soil. Id put it on a window seal and see what happens.
I agree with people that are saying do not plant it outside. If it takes, it would take over everything
As all said. Like most Rubus sp. its very invasive. However it mightnnot thrive in your climate. Is its struggling then it wont be invasibe. Problem solved.
I grow 2 species of blackberry in Norway and they dont go wild here. Raspberry however is very invasive in my climate.
Many Rubus speciea will need cold stratification to germinate. That means a cold period while the seedb is wet. Typically at least 6 weeks in the refridgerator. That might do to simulate winter. Sometimes up to 3 months is better for cold stratification.
Good luck!