Thanks for sharing your clever Elderberry ideas👍! Today I learned : 1. Use a homemade hardware cloth box to remove berries quickly and easily into a tote. 2. Wash/soak berries in beekeeping strainers to remove unripe berries, debris, and set bugs free. 3. Use a high tech bottomless plastic cup as a funnel to fill bags with berries. 4. American Elderberries can be eaten raw.
I'm glad the video helped. I post things I have learned along my journey. I'll be posting a video on me making elderberry tonic in the near future. Thanks for watching and commenting
I am so grateful I found your channel! I planted my two bushes last fall they have a few berries but not many. I'm praying they will grow bigger next year and give me enough to make something. I will be following along to learn all I can. Be blessed 😊
Tina, To produce berries in the first year is great. The second and third year you should be blown away. I'm experimenting on wither to cut back to the ground the second year or wait till the third. I always cut back the second but I'm leaning very heavy now on the third year
I have done that and it is not fun. Glad the video helped. I will be posting a video of me making elderberry tonic in the near future. Thanks For watching
I appreciate the video, as I have only recently found out about elderberries. I purchase around 20 cuttings this past Spring, and had started them in pots on our back porch because we live on a river (a little too close it turns out), and we flooded and I lost them all! Then in June, as I was traveling to and from work (in the country, not a city), I saw plants in several places with clusters of white flowers on them, so I pulled over and used my plant app to identify them, and sure enough, wild American elderberries! I found a really good patch along a drainage ditch, and the landowner told me I could have all I wanted, as he didn't know what they were and no one else ever harvested them. He did tell me that the power company had him sign an easement and that they would be cutting everything down under the power lines, but didn't know when. Well, we had a hurricane blow through here in southeast Texas a month or so ago, and the resulting downed trees and power lines resulted in power outages from 1-2 weeks, which resulted in the power company cutting down trees once they had power back on. I was worried that would happen, so instead of waiting until winter to take cuttings, I started taking cuttings after I harvested the berries from the branches. Then one day I went back to harvest more berries, and they were all cut down. This is long-winded, but I have finally gotten to my point. You mentioned that you take some cuttings and get them started for fall planting once you harvest all the berries. Well, there are very few videos covering that process, and I would really like to see what method works best for you. I placed all of mine in water for 1-3 days, them dipped them in rooting hormone, the put them in potting soil in CowPots. The ones with some top leaves I placed in a tote and keep it inside with the lid on, removing it for 1-2 hours per day. One day I forgot about them and they were drying out when I next looked at them. I may have killed the smallest of them (the jury is still out), but the others are doing fine and putting on more leaves. This is almost 3 weeks after putting them in the tote. All of the others I did everything the same, except I removed all leaves and I placed them all outside, on the north (shaded) side of the building, and I usually check them twice a day, and water them once a day - sometimes twice (this Texas sun is fierce!). About a dozen or more are starting to put some green out at the buds, and one actually has some leaves come up a couple of inches from the stem! We have some very hard rain yesterday, which washed half of my potting soil out of several of them, but that gave me a chance to see the root action, and I was impressed! Even the ones with no green on the stem yet had lots of roots. But anyway, please make a video about taking the green summer cuttings, getting them to root, then planting in the Fall. Thanks!
The wild ones may be your best plants as they are from the area and used to growing in your conditions. I'm running a little behind on getting things pruned back. i still have some making berries. As soon as i get back from the Ozarks Homesteading Expo i will probably finish harvest and prune and pot. I usually put mine in water with some willow bark for 2 to 3 weeks. willow bark is a natural rooting hormone. I will them pot them. I will plant them after they go dormant. Thanks for watching and watch for the video on pruning. i will also be posting video on making elderberry tonic.
@@redfeatherfarms592 Thank you! I am very much interested in both videos, and I agree with you about the wild plants. Some of them were every bit of 14' tall, and a couple of them had a diameter at the bottom over 2". I'll be going back to them later - lol.
p.s. Thanks for the tip on the willow bark - I will have to get some. And I don't think I will be able to wait until these plant go dormant, as I already gas about 3/16" of a root sticking through one of the CowPots, and it wasn't even showing any green above the soil yet. I may have to just stick them into larger pots. I'm afraid to plant them yet, as we were right at 100 degrees all last week. Cooler and rainy this week, but I would like it to cool off more before I plant them.
Most helpful processing video I’ve watched! Took me a few years to learn when to harvest them. Did it too early one year and the elderberry syrup was NOT good haha. I squeeze a few berries to see if dark juice comes out or if it’s clear. Can’t wait to process mine!
In the UK we have many elderberry and blackberry bushes in the countryside running along public footpaths. Spent many a time as a kid with the family picking these berries so my father could make his wine. Cheers everyone 🍷
The plant is called Elder and in old folk lore. Families always had a area of "elder" in their gardens. Lore says they were called "Elder" because they looked after the family, food wise and health wise. Thank you for commenting
I have found they do better in well drained soil and full sun. Not to say they don't need water, they do they just don't want to sit in water. in the wild you will usually find them along drainages. Water is important, and nutrition. Think about this, the drainage brings water and run off nutrients. I put lots of horse and goat manure around mine. hope this helps
If you could, please answer a question for me I would appreciate it. I got some elderberries from a friend of mine, and I make an alcohol tincture. I got them all washed and put in the jar with the vodka and noticed after three days in the jar there was like little white worms in one of the jars is that ok or do I need to throw it out?
I would throw it out. Did you let the berries sit for an hour or so before washing? I may have been eggs from an insect. If I'm using fresh berries, meaning not dried, i use everclear . I like my tinctures to end up around 40% alcohol. the berries have water in them so it will water down the tincture. this is why i use everclear and maybe add some distilled water.
Those bushes are three years old. I will cut them back to the ground this year. i usually cut them back starting on the second year but did a little experiment and left them for three years. We will see how they do next year. my thought were to let the roots system develop a little more before trimming. time will tell
Is there a link to the plastic sieve and possibly the guage of hardware cloth you use throughout you are using that might be budget friendly? Also, what kind of press do you use and what do you recommend? If you were an affiliate, you would make a few bucks too! Thank you!!! --Sheri The Organic Pet Lady --OH! P.S. can you make Elderberry bush cuttings just by clipping your shrubs and putting them in water or should I use rooting compound? I'd like to share my prolific bush trim pieces with folks who want Elderberry starts! Would not want to waste them!
Thanks for the comments. the hardware cloth is 3/4 inch. the plastic sleeve is just a cup i cut down, i tell everyone it is a special device. lol I will be making a video in October of pruning and potting Elder cuttings. so stay tuned Thanks for watching
@@redfeatherfarms592 hi thank you for answering! I was talking about the Honey thing. Can't find one in plastic anywhere. Also can you tell me if I trim my elderberry bush if I can play can use those clippings to plant more
Knowing what variety you have is a not always easy. I have learned what the wild varieties in my area look like. I also bought most of my orchard plants for a reputable grower of certified varieties. I do not know how to identify all the varieties out there. my suggestion is buy from a reputable grower. I do not know of a ID guide for all the varieties. There are several other varieties that you need to cook. i hope this helps. Thanks for watching. I will post a video soon on me making elderberry tonics.
question...is any way that u can share cuttings of the elderberries varieties u have...I will pay for the shipping. I was looking for your email but there is none. I donot have facebook so please let me know..thanks.
This was incredibly helpful! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
you are very welcome. I will be doing a propagation video soon. The plant have just about gone dormant.
Thanks for sharing your clever Elderberry ideas👍! Today I learned :
1. Use a homemade hardware cloth box to remove berries quickly and easily into a tote.
2. Wash/soak berries in beekeeping strainers to remove unripe berries, debris, and set bugs free.
3. Use a high tech bottomless plastic cup as a funnel to fill bags with berries.
4. American Elderberries can be eaten raw.
I'm glad the video helped. I post things I have learned along my journey. I'll be posting a video on me making elderberry tonic in the near future. Thanks for watching and commenting
I am so grateful I found your channel! I planted my two bushes last fall they have a few berries but not many. I'm praying they will grow bigger next year and give me enough to make something. I will be following along to learn all I can. Be blessed 😊
Tina, To produce berries in the first year is great. The second and third year you should be blown away. I'm experimenting on wither to cut back to the ground the second year or wait till the third. I always cut back the second but I'm leaning very heavy now on the third year
Thankfully I found this channel. Last year I picked off the berries from 3 buckets(5 gallon) by hand.
I have done that and it is not fun. Glad the video helped. I will be posting a video of me making elderberry tonic in the near future. Thanks For watching
I appreciate the video, as I have only recently found out about elderberries. I purchase around 20 cuttings this past Spring, and had started them in pots on our back porch because we live on a river (a little too close it turns out), and we flooded and I lost them all! Then in June, as I was traveling to and from work (in the country, not a city), I saw plants in several places with clusters of white flowers on them, so I pulled over and used my plant app to identify them, and sure enough, wild American elderberries! I found a really good patch along a drainage ditch, and the landowner told me I could have all I wanted, as he didn't know what they were and no one else ever harvested them. He did tell me that the power company had him sign an easement and that they would be cutting everything down under the power lines, but didn't know when. Well, we had a hurricane blow through here in southeast Texas a month or so ago, and the resulting downed trees and power lines resulted in power outages from 1-2 weeks, which resulted in the power company cutting down trees once they had power back on. I was worried that would happen, so instead of waiting until winter to take cuttings, I started taking cuttings after I harvested the berries from the branches. Then one day I went back to harvest more berries, and they were all cut down. This is long-winded, but I have finally gotten to my point. You mentioned that you take some cuttings and get them started for fall planting once you harvest all the berries. Well, there are very few videos covering that process, and I would really like to see what method works best for you. I placed all of mine in water for 1-3 days, them dipped them in rooting hormone, the put them in potting soil in CowPots. The ones with some top leaves I placed in a tote and keep it inside with the lid on, removing it for 1-2 hours per day. One day I forgot about them and they were drying out when I next looked at them. I may have killed the smallest of them (the jury is still out), but the others are doing fine and putting on more leaves. This is almost 3 weeks after putting them in the tote. All of the others I did everything the same, except I removed all leaves and I placed them all outside, on the north (shaded) side of the building, and I usually check them twice a day, and water them once a day - sometimes twice (this Texas sun is fierce!). About a dozen or more are starting to put some green out at the buds, and one actually has some leaves come up a couple of inches from the stem! We have some very hard rain yesterday, which washed half of my potting soil out of several of them, but that gave me a chance to see the root action, and I was impressed! Even the ones with no green on the stem yet had lots of roots. But anyway, please make a video about taking the green summer cuttings, getting them to root, then planting in the Fall. Thanks!
The wild ones may be your best plants as they are from the area and used to growing in your conditions.
I'm running a little behind on getting things pruned back. i still have some making berries. As soon as i get back from the Ozarks Homesteading Expo i will probably finish harvest and prune and pot. I usually put mine in water with some willow bark for 2 to 3 weeks. willow bark is a natural rooting hormone. I will them pot them. I will plant them after they go dormant.
Thanks for watching and watch for the video on pruning. i will also be posting video on making elderberry tonic.
@@redfeatherfarms592 Thank you! I am very much interested in both videos, and I agree with you about the wild plants. Some of them were every bit of 14' tall, and a couple of them had a diameter at the bottom over 2". I'll be going back to them later - lol.
p.s. Thanks for the tip on the willow bark - I will have to get some. And I don't think I will be able to wait until these plant go dormant, as I already gas about 3/16" of a root sticking through one of the CowPots, and it wasn't even showing any green above the soil yet. I may have to just stick them into larger pots. I'm afraid to plant them yet, as we were right at 100 degrees all last week. Cooler and rainy this week, but I would like it to cool off more before I plant them.
I agree waiting till it is somewhat cooler will help keep the tansplant shock down.
Most helpful processing video I’ve watched! Took me a few years to learn when to harvest them. Did it too early one year and the elderberry syrup was NOT good haha. I squeeze a few berries to see if dark juice comes out or if it’s clear.
Can’t wait to process mine!
I'm glad it was helpful. Just trial and error on my part. You learn best by doing. keep up and don't give up. you will get better each year.
In the UK we have many elderberry and blackberry bushes in the countryside running along public footpaths. Spent many a time as a kid with the family picking these berries so my father could make his wine.
Cheers everyone 🍷
The plant is called Elder and in old folk lore. Families always had a area of "elder" in their gardens. Lore says they were called "Elder" because they looked after the family, food wise and health wise.
Thank you for commenting
Brilliant!❤️
Thank you. Stay tuned, coming in a couple weeks will be pruning and transplanting elderberries and making elderberry tonic.
Thankyou a good idea the screen
You are welcome. I'll be publishing a pruning and potting video in a few weeks.
Thanks Dewayne. I amlooking to get 7 to 10 plants this coming spring. Great show.
Glad he video was helpful. Ill do a video on how to grow them in the future.
Just subscribed. I have been freezing the removing from the stems. I will be trying your method, just in time. Thanks
I have found this woks much better.
THANK YOU
You are welcome. Thanks for watching. look for a pruning and potting video coming soon.
Very interesting process
Thank You. glad you found it interesting
What kind of growing conditions do elderberry bushes prefer? Full sun?
I have found they do better in well drained soil and full sun. Not to say they don't need water, they do they just don't want to sit in water. in the wild you will usually find them along drainages.
Water is important, and nutrition. Think about this, the drainage brings water and run off nutrients. I put lots of horse and goat manure around mine. hope this helps
@@redfeatherfarms592 thank you very much! I am hoping to plant some in the spring. :) This is very helpful!
If you could, please answer a question for me I would appreciate it. I got some elderberries from a friend of mine, and I make an alcohol tincture. I got them all washed and put in the jar with the vodka and noticed after three days in the jar there was like little white worms in one of the jars is that ok or do I need to throw it out?
I would throw it out. Did you let the berries sit for an hour or so before washing? I may have been eggs from an insect. If I'm using fresh berries, meaning not dried, i use everclear . I like my tinctures to end up around 40% alcohol. the berries have water in them so it will water down the tincture. this is why i use everclear and maybe add some distilled water.
How old are your bushes?
Those bushes are three years old. I will cut them back to the ground this year. i usually cut them back starting on the second year but did a little experiment and left them for three years. We will see how they do next year. my thought were to let the roots system develop a little more before trimming. time will tell
@@redfeatherfarms592 thank you for replying back. We just planted some this year and I can't wait to start getting berries.
Is there a link to the plastic sieve and possibly the guage of hardware cloth you use throughout you are using that might be budget friendly? Also, what kind of press do you use and what do you recommend? If you were an affiliate, you would make a few bucks too! Thank you!!! --Sheri The Organic Pet Lady --OH! P.S. can you make Elderberry bush cuttings just by clipping your shrubs and putting them in water or should I use rooting compound? I'd like to share my prolific bush trim pieces with folks who want Elderberry starts! Would not want to waste them!
Thanks for the comments. the hardware cloth is 3/4 inch. the plastic sleeve is just a cup i cut down, i tell everyone it is a special device. lol I will be making a video in October of pruning and potting Elder cuttings. so stay tuned Thanks for watching
@@redfeatherfarms592 hi thank you for answering! I was talking about the Honey thing. Can't find one in plastic anywhere. Also can you tell me if I trim my elderberry bush if I can play can use those clippings to plant more
How do you know what kind you have?? Do you have to cook other kinds of elderberry??
Knowing what variety you have is a not always easy. I have learned what the wild varieties in my area look like. I also bought most of my orchard plants for a reputable grower of certified varieties. I do not know how to identify all the varieties out there. my suggestion is buy from a reputable grower. I do not know of a ID guide for all the varieties. There are several other varieties that you need to cook. i hope this helps. Thanks for watching. I will post a video soon on me making elderberry tonics.
question...is any way that u can share cuttings of the elderberries varieties u have...I will pay for the shipping. I was looking for your email but there is none. I donot have facebook so please let me know..thanks.
I sell cuttings if you are interested. you can contact me at RedFeatherFarmsok@gmail.com