How To Propagate Blackberries The Easy Way
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In this video, I show you how to propagate blackberries. This is an easy way to get blackberries without having to spend a lot of bucks at the nursery.
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Learn how to propagate your own blackberries today.
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Raspberries do the same. Through very little effort I’ve dug up and given 5 raspberry canes to over 8 friends so far and they too will now have raspberry abundance to share and feed their family! How amazing and quick we can get more self sufficiency in our own homesteads and our community
Good to know!
Thank you prepper, I have some blackberrys about 12 plants and want to propagate and have a 100, I love blackberrys and my sisters, nephews, nieces, neighbors and friends love them too, I grow a garden and give most of my vegetables away to people and family, most don't have a place for a garden or can't grow a garden, I will be 70 this year and love gardening, my dad grew up on a farm in Georgia, and he gardened for 40 plus years here in Florida, he passed away in 2014 , but before he did he gave me his gardening tools and I'm carrying on the tradition he started, growing and sharing with as many as possible. Keep the videos coming, I appreciate them and you for doing them.
Thanks, Terry.
You and I are about the same age.
I turn 69 this year.
Time sure flies...
Thank you both for sharing , I am 65 and I love gardening too
If you find a business that's getting landscaped, you could ask them for the pots after. In most cases they will tell you to grab the ones you want.
I always go to your videos first because I know you have walked the walk, thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
I appreciate that, Charley :)
I've seen these too, but since I did not know how to propagate from cuttings, I would dig them up and plant them where I wanted to start a new blackberry bush. Actually, I called myself an "apartment farmer" until I moved into a house, and I grew my blackberry bush in a tomato cage and kept it very pruned back each year, so my landlord would not get mad at me. I got HUGE blackberries.
A dirty shirt is the sign of a good gardener! I'll have to give this a try on my Caroline Raspberries - I spent about $40 on 5 canes this year. Thanks for the info!
You are the one that got me all excited about propagating blackberries so last year I planted a bunch and I am looking forward this year to propagating a bunch! Last year when I went to buy the thorn less blackberries they were get this selling them for 30 bucks each potted! Yes 30 bucks! Well I finally got some on sale for 15 bucks each! Yes they are that crazy on price here in Minnesota! Thanks to you that is history now! Thanks so much for your video’s I love them!
When your blackberries or any other plant that has layered itself and produced unwanted plants it is much faster to just pull or dig the plant up, pruning the root when needed to release the plant.This is much faster as the plant merely needs to recover from shock rather than growing new roots.
Yep... but I hate digging, and I'd have lots of little holes everywhere.
This method really works great...
If you mean shoots coming up out of the ground... I would just dig them up (if they are not where you want them to grow). Then put them in pots. This year I have found that's the best way to do them. They already have a root system started, and will take off a lot faster, with a better success rate. Then plant them in the spring from the pots.
I just found your channel a couple days ago and every time I watch one it feels like going to visit with a friend! I enjoy your videos so much.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you so very much for this information.I hope to use this on my property soon.God bless ya'll.
Love your videos!
I propagate my far away blackberries the exact same way. I also pull up the roots and propagate from the roots. I cut the root into 2 inch sections and make sure the tops of the root face up when you plant. Then just put the roots just barely beneath the service One plant can get you 5 or 6 root cuttings that you can propagate.
Yep... it's called "3B" mix. I get it at the local nursery. It's what I use for everything.
By the way, I've got several dozen Virginia Gold plants in small solo cups to sell at the Farmers Market, thanks to you...
:)
Is it a regular potting, veggie potting, or seedlings mix?
Good info, thanks !
Actually... I've started digging the "volunteers" up and potting them. They seem to be much more hardy than trying to propagate cuttings, since they already have somewhat of a root system already started. I think I'll keep digging... since I have a lot of sprouts coming up in places that I don't want them.
I'll do a vid on that soon.
thanks for the comment.
Great idea !
I wish i lived in Texas !! I want to Grow Blackberries next year so thank you for your help !! you have some great Blackberry plants 💞💞
Awesome. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Cool.
Two years ago, I planted a Heritage Raspberry from one of those cheap bagged bare-root bags at Walmart, along with some other raspberries, blackberries, and grapes. Out of 11 of those cheap purchases, I succeeded with only 7. One year later, I found a couple of runners that had popped up into the yard, from the underground rhizomes spreading from the Heritage Raspberry. I cut the rhizome and dug up the largest of those runners, then planted it about three feet from the parent plant. That turns out to have been far too close. My Heritage Raspberries grow out of control, as tall as 12 feet if I do not clip the ends, and each of those first two plants has canes at least 1/2" diameter, leaning in all directions, to a spread of about five feet. I recommend planting them five feet apart, so the berries can get enough sun and you don't shed too much blood picking them. Of course, you can wear a stiff, thick shirt to help save your blood.
Back on point, this year, after the berries were in the ground only two full years, I dug up every little runner from those Heritage Raspberries and transplanted 48 of them to make a living wall along a long (125') fence line, not for the berries so much as for security and privacy. A few, perhaps 6, died, and I replaced them with new ones. Additionally, I gave away to family and friends at least 20 other runners, and have eight more potted, to give to two others of my siblings. I did similarly with Ebony King and Himalayan Blackberries, and have two Polar Berry runners potted.
It works best if you just sever the rhizome first, between the runner and the parent plant, and leave the runners in place for a week or two, to develop their own root systems, before you dig them up. Also, it helps to dig them up intact, keeping the dirt together around the roots, and pot or transplant that as a unit, back-filling the holes with other dirt or garden soil. Pulling the grass around them may disrupt the runners' roots too much. The advantage of the Heritage Raspberries is that they produce fruit twice per year, heavily on the end of first-year canes even the first year of transplanted runners. Of those 48 I planted along the fence line just this summer, about 30 have fruited already, right now. Those will fruit again in late June, on branches from the middle of this year's canes, while sending up new canes that fruit in September thru October, at the ends of the canes.
I also use another propagation method, for the trailing black raspberries, less upright and self-supporting than the Heritage. Where long canes trail to the ground, they will root, sometimes in several spots each, if you let them trail for a lot of their length. You can encourage that rooting by tacking the canes to the ground, with garden staples, and packing a little dirt over those spots. Later, when those are rooted, cut the canes a few leaves away from the rooted spot (toward the cane trunk), and water the rooted spots. Dig them up (if you want to move them) when they are heavily rooted. I just did this with about 20 pieces, this week.
With all of these runners, it helps to boost rooting by soaking them, after transplanting them, with a solution of Quick Start, SuperThrive, and Mycorrhizae, but it may not be necessary. For some I was lazy and just plopped them into pots, with some commercial potting soil to help. Those lazy products seem to succeed too, although they do not grow quite as well in the pots.
Good luck!
You've had a lot of success!
I've thought about putting mine along a fence too.
Thanks for sharing your journey.
alan
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That's what I want to do with my wild blackberry, we have bogambelia but thorned blackberries will deter thefts just as well and produce fruit to boot!
Can never have too many bb's. Our local Dickey Bub, like Tractor Supply was selling bb starts for 6 bucks this week. Little bitty starts. Most of the time around here they will run 15 bucks or so.
I am so upset with myself. I pruned back my bushes that I planted last year and threw all but a few away. Ugh- so glad I found your Channel. I won't do that again!!
Give it a try.
I have found that summer is not a good time to try to propagate.
It may just be the heat in Texas, but I’ve just found a very little success.
Fall and winter are the best times to propagate blackberries… maybe early spring.
I was spraying them with compost tea today and did a video. I'll try to put it up tomorrow.
Hey ! Big Thank you. Just got some cuttings from a co-worker and did not know what to do. Do a google search and BamM ! you came up. Thank you again.
Good info thanks!
I use fish emulsion and it works great. You can actually see the plant getting greener right before your eyes. I use it for propagating, my trees, vegetables, everything. Use 3 tbl. to one gallon, and it doesn't take much for each plant. About 1/2 cup.
You can get it at online nurseries.
Where do you buy "fish emulsion"?
I'm English and love your accent!
Everybody sounds like this in Georgia too.
This is good method; you don't always start new ones by digging them. This is something good to do with all your prunings. I dig some up it they go rogue; but that's just some of them. I am doing mine in the middle of winter; so I hope the cold doesn't make cuttings act weird.
When I put my cuttings under my misting system, I use a large tray, and do dozens at a time, in a small area (i have several vids to watch on this- see my propagation playlist) and I have... probably... well over 90% success rate. This time I went straight to pots, so I hope I can get the same success.
I really need to put a timer on those misters the pots are under. That would give me a lot better success.
Thanks, I just bought some dip n grow yesterday and started looking for some videos on UA-cam and all I could were about pot
Thanks for the Demo!
Thanks so much! This was a really helpful video. Appreciate the humor as well. ;-)
Well that is great I sold my tobacco plants for 2 bucks ea you might get more! 1 tobacco plant will make enough dried tobacco to make a carton of cigs if anyone asks!
Great information. Your channel is wonderful! TFS God Bless. ~Lisa
Thanks !
i DIG them up.....they are already rooted. put the in pot/ground.....treat gently for a week or two. i've done this for years
jimsgym1 how much watering do you recommend for these newly uprooted plants? Thank you 😄
Ms Mccoy I just moved them and some are wilting. I probably will wait longer (2 year’s ) before transplanting : ) how do you know if they are two years old ? The flower formations? Thanks so much
Yeah I was thinking the same thing hes wasting time doing it like that
I have some with thorns on them growing on my fence. I threw some cuttings in the woods behind my house 2 years ago. I had no idea they would grow. So now I went and got cuttings off of the main vines. Do anyone know if I should have dug them up instead? I was afraid of the bugs in the woods. All types of stuff started running so I just ran and got a bunch of cuttings a few minutes later. I had to build the courage to do it. I figured they can grow the same way. Any tips would be helpful from anyone.
Click on the link to the Dip-N-Grow in the description box below my video.
The soil I used was just regular potting soil.
I have so many plants in my back yard, I picked every year and nice fruits to eat for healthy
Thanks for the info.
It sounds like we might be close sharing that sandy, iron ore soil. I was out checking the berries today and we have some since the first time in a few years. That drought hit us hard here. I am planning on moving some bushes up here to the house for propagation. Thank you for taking the time and uploading the detailed video. - G
Thanks for the advice. I will do this today.
Best of luck!
Hopefully be relocating back to south east Texas soon. Going to need a butt load of blackberries and honeysuckle to keep the wife happy. Thanks for sharing.
You bet.
Thanks for watching.
And welcome back to TX!
So far each shoot that I dig up is one cutting, but each plant can make MANY cuttings for propagation.
Nice video. I'll have to try that.
That's what I've been doing lately.
I'll have a video up this week, hopefully...
Do you think you can take cuttings any time of the year? I've got plenty of shoots coming up, but I think it may be worth it to sacrifice one big cane if I could piece it out to 15-20 new cuttings. But is it too late in the year now to do? I still have shoots coming up.
Thanks for the video! You might be interested to know the blackberry leaves can be used to make an herbal tea that is very useful for ulcers, or preventing diarrhea, so when you strip the leaves off of them, you can dry them to use or sell. All about maximizing the yields!
I've heard that... but haven't tried it yet... thanks
I'd check not all varieties are good for that. Best to ask a herbalist.
Most of the plants I propagate are from the tips. They are a by product of regular pruning, so there are no roots.
Yes, you're right, you can dig roots and they will grow. My ground is hard, hard clay... I'm old and I don't like digging...
You have an oddly soothing accent. Thanks for the tips ^_^
TexasPrepper2 Awesome video! Just wondering, how big is the pot you're using here?
Too hot here right now, but fall cuttings have worked for me in the past. You gotta mist them, though. Look at my video on misting systems
WOW ! Maybe I am WAAAAAY underpricing my plants.
I will check out the local nursery prices before I price mine.
mmmmm Good Stuff. Thank you!
That is a very good fruit tree plants, keep on... if only that is possible in hot countries like Egypt, I am your buyer on the spot. Good idea for industrious man like you, good luck.
They are possible in hot places in arizone summers can reach 115 farenhiet and they grow fine
hii TexasPrepper2..
old video.. but i would like to know the result.. did they take root when you cut them off where the soft part is and dip in growth hormone
thx
andrew
Depending on the season, I usually get a 50% to 60% success rate.
Summer... not very successful... too hot.
My blackberries survived the winter and they have begun to bloom. (I met you at the dog kennel in the green jeep).
EXCELLENT !Are they blooming already ?!? WOW...Mine are budding out a lot of green shoots, but no blooms yet. I'll probably have some blooms in a week or two. You're a little south of me, so you've got a little warmer climate.Thanks for the update, and keep me posted.alan
...excellent.....!!
We are also in East Tx and new to growing blackberry's. We are trying to re-do my in-laws berry patch that has been neglected for 3 or 4 years. It was a giant mess of vines, briars, poison ivy and who knows what else!! We have finally got it cleared out and trellis wires ran. I am going to take your advice about pruning but I was wondering if and when you fertilize your vines. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Love your video!
When they start to bloom and again after the fruiting is over.
Maybe another shot in the fall to help winterize them.
Not too close to the plants roots.
Maybe 2-3 TBS of fertilizer per plant
I like 10-20-10 best
Yes you better check they are not cheap!
great video. berry nice😀
Thank you 🤗
Shoot, I figured blackberries would grow in concrete.
My land is hard red clay. Before I planted, I ran a "ripper" down the row (about 1' deep) to break up the hard pan clay. Then I added some compost (not a lot) and planted a little while later. Then I mulched all of the rows with about 8" of wood chips (which i think helped more than anything). They have pretty much gone crazy. I would think the blackland would be about the same as clay, but I don't know much about it.
thanx for the comment
where are you located? im Randy Bobo in Longview Texas... please PM me at randybobo1959gmail.com
You will get a lot more production, and much larger berries on cultivated BB plants over wild.
I did the vid a day or so before I put it up, so it hasn't been that long. Not sure of the outcome yet... and it's 100F so the heat may hurt them some.
Well I know that. Most of them are actually in the row which is nice. I'm saying, I could potentially make a lot more "shoots" by cutting up one big cane and rooting them. Is it too late in the year to try this, from your experience? Or have you ever tried fall cuttings?
thanks. I'm gonna go get some cuttings from my dads yard.
No rust that I know of.
I don't think I have ever had to spray them or anything. They are the most trouble free thing I have. If I just can get me some help pickin'
:)
I cant believe you got that many hahaha thats awesome!
Awesome video. I have a huge field in my backyard, with tons and tons of blackberries. But some are kind of hard to get to. Thinking about propagating them and moving to a clearing in the field so I can get to them easier. Any tips? Never done anything as far as gardening/farming ect.
Trenton Cunningham these may be a wild variety... I've never transplanted anything but cultivated varieties, so I'm not sure. Some have said wild ones don't transplant well, others have had success. If it was me, I'd do a few and see how it goes before I put a lot of work into transplanting a lot of them...
Im in southeast Tennessee and enjoy watching your videos. I got a friend that has some Ouachita blackberries and they do very well here. I was thinking of getting some cuttins off of there plants since its sposta cool off a little here in the next week. How long would you recommend them rooting in the pots before planting? Would you wait till spring?
I would wait till they have a very good root system... which might be spring
How did the plants turn out?? It doesnt show when you made the video but i assume it has been awhile!....I have some wild blackberry plants on the far side of my property line and i was thinking about transplanting and doin some research to see if it was possible plus if it was best to use wild blackberry plants which are free or to purchase blackberry plants...All pertaining to how much they will beable to harvest!
i love his accent :-) i fee like Mathew macconaughey is in this video and just hiding! :-)
Great video my friend. What kind of potting soil do you use for propagating your cuts and for the ones you dig up we love our prime ark freedoms
I use a mix called BM7 from a company called Berger. But, any good potting mix will do.
Thank you much. I am just starting with raspberries. Any help will be much welcome.
Great video, thank you so much for sharing. But I do have one question. Why wouldn't you just dig up the whole new plant shoot up including the roots and then pot and regrow?
this is a great question
By the way were you using a standard potting mix to pot them in? Thanks again from the frozen North!
Just use refined peatmoss
YOU ARE FUNNY..THANK YOU FOR THE HELP
Great video I did not know that's how you propagated Black berry's the bad thing is I do not need to grow black berry's. We have 3 verities that grow wild here. I pick about 20 gallons a year just on my dirt road. Will that method work for raspberry's? With them I have just been spiting and dividing its very hard on the plant. .
I'm just a little bit north of you in Fort Worth and was wondering how difficult is it to grow blackberries compared to growing blueberries? I planted six blueberry plants last year in a couple small (6'), raised beds. I made sure my soil pH was right and had a drip irrigation system set up and thought I had everything just right. All six plants died so I was considering switching to a thornless blackberry, Apache, maybe(?)
I've never grown blueberries, so I can't help you on that.
I would suggest the Prime Ark Freedom blackberries over Apache.
Or get a few of both :)
@@BIGALTX Thanks for the info, sir! I'll look into Prime Ark Freedom. Are they a mail order variety or can be found at my local nursery?
@@RESlusher
You might can find locally, but I've always bought online.
Nourse Farms, Stark Brothers, Simmons Plant Farms
are good places to shop...
FWIW I consider planting BB's to be the biggest mistake I ever made in the garden. I did not do my research before planting them, to find out that they should be considered a noxious weed or a invasive species. At 3 years old my BB's had spread 8 feet out each side of the row. Took another 2 years of digging and spraying to get rid of them. When trying to just dig them out new plants would shot up from root pieces as small as 2" long and the diameter of a pencil lead.
Unless you can plant them out in the back 40 consider renting a trencher to dig a trench at least 2' deep all the way around the intended patch, then install something heavy duty in the trench to act as a root blocker. Also if any of the canes bend over and touch the ground stake them up or cut then off, as they will send out roots where they touch the ground.
Don't get me wrong , the berries are tasty. But are literally a bloody pain to pick. The thorns easily penetrate blue jeans and stick there. I am in central MN so only the thorny ones will survive here. And if you have people around that like to run around bare foot mowing off the shoots in the grass will be a problem.
Gordy
Oh yeah... I definitely have to be pro-active or they would take over.
But... I have had them for several years, and as long as I keep the aisles mowed, take the dead canes out, and trellis them... they stay where they are supposed to stay.
Where do you typically sell your potted blackberries? At a nursery or a farmers market?
I sold a few at farmers market, but most here on the farm.
None to sell this year, though
Great videos, I'm in East Texas myself (Alto). Just where in East Texas are you?
Howdy Alto, just up the road from you about two miles south of Rusk
Where can order bottle and soi for these plants ?
Thanks for sharing nice vdo
Awesome video! Learned a lot. I am in DFW, how far are you? I would like a few plants.
I'm in ETX... but nothing to sell right now. I didn't propagate anything this year.
Sorry.
can you do this with baby cakes as well. this is my first year with black berries.
Have you considered removing that large tree? I am removing some,and in some places putting smaller fruit/nut trees.
I like truthful people if I lived in Texas I would buy from you! I'm a prepper too! I need to do a youtube channel cause I think I'm a good prepper and and show people lots of great things! I need a new phone though that doesn't limit my recordings to just a couple of minutes!
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What about clipping them from the big plants, not just the small ones that show up? I see a bunch of blackberries growing alongside the road. I want to take cuttings and propagate them here in Washington State.
Have you seen the video "Greening The Desert?
It is available on UA-cam. It is fantastic.
It is amazing.
Would I likely have any success propagating a blackberry cane which has already fruited, or does this technique work only for primocanes?
I'll harvest my blackberries some time next month, and I'm going to prune the spent floricanes to ground-level afterward. I was just wondering if the spent floricanes could be dropped into some soil and propagated, using the methods shown in this video.
Thanks for any feedback.
I've never tried it... but I don't think it will work.
Why don't you just prune the new primacanes (they'll need it anyway) and use them.
However, I will say that I've had poor success propagating in the summer. You may want to wait till fall.
larry thank you so much for sharing your videos,wisdom and knowledge .I tried propegating some blackberries and out of 20 plants only 3 took.Is this what happens usually?i llve in east texas as well and i had a mister system that went off every 4 hours and the plants were in the shade .I did this a month ago June 2015 .does it matter when you do the cuttings ?I only have 6 plants and would love to grow more your help would be greatly appreciated .thanks pippy
mike pipps The summer time is not a good time to do this... especially in TX. My success rate goes way down in the summer. I would try this in Oct, Nov or March, April... or so... you'll do much better.
TexasPrepper2 thank you larry i will try the fall and see if my success rate will
go up
mike pipps Where in ETX are you...
alan
Do you need two different kind to cross pollinate or one is enough?
Blackberries are self-pollinating. Bees help a lot.
I have done my propagation somewhat different. I took my cuttings in February, dipped in rooting hormone made of one cup of water two tablespoons of honey. In groups of 20 they were stuck into a 2 gallon pot, then placed in a clear plastic bag. I had nearly 100% success with each cutting putting on a beautiful set leaves. My problem is two weeks after each plant put on leaves they began to die off. I don't understand what's wrong. there is plenty of moisture present. The only thing that I can figure is they maybe getting to much light. Any help would be more than appreciated.
+Blackberry Poor
I've had the same problem. Not sure what it is. I always thought it might be too MUCH water... not a shortage of it.
But again, not sure. I usually have about a 50-75'% success rate, but it also depends on what time of the year. In TX, the fall seems better. Summer is not a good time here.
Do you need to have a high humidity for them to root? Or can you just make sure they are wet enough and leave the humidity dome off?
My experience is... if I don't have a mist system that will mist them regularly, several times an hour, the success rate is low. I have had very bad success trying to propagate from cuttings in the summer.
Fall/winter is better in TX.
Maybe they don't have enough stimulus to grow in summer. Not really sure but we will see man.
Thanks!
When it comes to growing cuttings, what are the best conditions for the best chances of success?
Reason is, I've tried growing cuttings on my back porch, where they get a lot of sun - I think I fried them in the heat we've been having in western New York, though I still plan to plant them to give them a chance.
Next year, I might start in the Spring, and grow them in this old barn by my place - light that isn't too bright, plus a window, and a fan could be put in if need be.
Anyways, what would you advise? After all, this is my first attempt, and I do not have a greenhouse.
Also, when it comes to propagating through tip-layering - that is sticking the end of a branch in the ground/pot of dirt, how much of the mother plant should I cut off? A few inches? Also, what about those lateral branches that come off right where the dirt is? Should I leave the lateral branch with the mother, or the new plant?
I Propagate in the Fall.. in the shade.
You are a lot farther north... not sure what would be better for you, fall or spring...
Cut the new plant off from the mother when you think it's rooted enough to stay alive on it's own.
I would trim close to the ground and let the mother cane spring back up.
Leave anything coming up from the ground at the propagation point.
Alright, I will try that - hopefully things will be better in the Spring for me, especially the cuttings.
Of course, said lateral branches are still just above the soil, like an inch or so, and still part of the mother plant.
Raspberries? Sure, why not?
It also works on grapes, muscadines, and kiwi (though i have had limited success with kiwi-only about 20% actually make it).
Give it a try...
Any chance of getting you to show me how you have your blackberries in the row. I have some started and let to see others ideals. I have triple crown thorn less.
i kind of thought my own question for a little bit. Was it because you can turn one new shoot into three cuttings?
question: The second plant you potted, the top was cut off, so that means it won't grow any taller, but will grow lateral shoots..correct?
Correct
Can you make a video of you separating the blackberries from one big pot to their individual pots? Won’t the roots tangle up?
Here it is on my Blackberry Playlist:
ua-cam.com/video/gu8Tt89LnGI/v-deo.html
Thanks for your help. For the first time, I think I’m gonna be successful propagating Blackberries. They are looking good. Question: can I save my left over already mixed up “ Dip n grow” in a glass jar w/ lid for future use?
I don't think so.
I seem to remember reading that it needs to be used within 24 hours.
You might want to contact their website and ask them
TexasPrepper2 - Thank you Sir.
Texas, can I ask how long are your cuttings? I've tried cutting several off of our plants and they keep dying. Potted on miracle grow and watered several times a day. I prune all the leaves back but 3 at the top. Help
I'll make cuttings long enough to get 2 of the nodes in the potting mix.
That's usually 8 to 10" long or longer.
BUT... I don't have much success in summer.
You might want to try again in a month or 2.
I stopped even trying to do any summer propagating