How to Prune BLACKBERRY Canes PART IV I Dr. Arlie Powell I Preparing for harvest
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2023
- This video is the 4th installment of our educational blackberry cane pruning series.
Early in spring of 2023 we were about to get in our blackberry growing fields and track the final stages of our TPUPS (Trellis Production in Primocane Suppression) system. We looked for signs of freeze damage, and checked for any final maintenance before the harvest season. We also wanted to briefly highlight our planting method for 'Kiowa'.
We are using 'Kiowa' Rubus X here at Petals from the Past, and have found it to be the best blackberry for our climate.
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I Love this system you’ve created. It Really works! And I love it when things make sense! Thank You So Much for your Great Love for what you do. I’m teaching my kids with your videos so they can work our Kiowa blackberries in Ohio! Thanks Again So Very Much!
I cannot thank you enough for posting these! they are so helpful and it's easy to take notes as I watch at home. Seeing how well-trained and managed your blackberries were at PFTP inspired me to grow them. I'd only ever seen crazy overgrown blackberries, so I never wanted to grow them...until I saw yours! And now I know how to do this!
Thank you Sir. Your videos are so educational.
Another great video from y’all. Thanks. Sometime next May/June can you just do a quick video showing a full trellis of blackberries? 😃
Absolutely! We are planning on it.
I love these videos
This is such a great education. My blackberries were planted as bare root in February and I've been trying to follow your instructions.
Thank you ■ I have been reviewing your Blackberry care; I plan to prune my laterals as you have shared. Today, I topped off my canes to 3 feet since I live in a neighborhood and this location of sun is at the front road, and removed bottom leaves up to about a foot. I never considered having a bush hedge, but I believe it will be great for my limited gardens. Margie
Could you discuss further when and how to suppress new primocaines?
So much great information. Thank You!
Thanks Dr Powell!! I would love to see a summer update! I’m following your advice and wondering how my plants should look, now, in June.
Thanks for your videos 1,2,3 and now 4. I learned about TPUPS late in the last growing season so this is the first year of getting my primocanes trained on the wires to follow your system for next year’s production. Since I didn’t find your advice soon enough, my floricanes this year are a big tangle. I am in Massachusetts and growing thornless blackberries so would like to hear your thoughts on timing each phase of TPUPS. For example, it is June 24 (the first day of summer) and flowers are just opening on the floricanes - quite a bit later than your flowers by the first day of spring. Thanks for your expertise.
Thank you for starting to do videos again!!! This is so helpful. Would love to see others about other fruits we can grow in Alabama.
I have a trellis built in my garden and wish to grow a couple of blackberry plants, after watching numerous videos about growing, pruning and training blackberries I found this site which is by far the most detailed and informative.
However, having watched all four of these videos I'm still not sure what you mean by 'suppressing the primocanes'. In this video you briefly alluded to the primocanes but still did not explain how you actually suppress them.
I'm assuming by 'suppressing' the primocanes you don't allow them to grow until you are ready for them. Could you kindly elaborate on this particular aspect of the growing.
I'm sure you've noticed throughout the videos that whenever he sees any primocanes growing, he's always cutting them off or breaking them off, he notes I think in the third video that they are particularly easy to break off when very young. And I think that's the point of it. It's constant suppression of the primocanes throughout the year is what I'm getting.
I attended Jason's fall planting class this past Sunday. I was very inspired and ended up picking up 3 Kiowa plants along with 2 Peggy Martin roses. I'm so excited after watching this series on growing Kiowas with the TPUPS system. Thanks for all of the knowledge. Regarding fertilizers, what do you typically recommend and what schedule? Thanks again.
Thank you for this series! What is your preferred spacing for the crowns? From looking I'm guessing 4 feet? And could you tell me the type of T-posts your using and their spacing and the gauge of wire. It looks like you use a combination for stability. I live in a former farmhand cottage on which was once an orchard/berry farm. I still have blackberries whose ancestors go back over 100 years. They are incredibly vigorous, hardy and almost nothing bothers them. I began to prune and support a number of these last summer with the intent to transplant mid-winter/early Spring and have the trellis set up for them. The floracanes won't be as pretty as yours but the primocanes will be trained as shown to get the system fully going next year. Thanks in advance for the spacing and hardware info. Your system is a Godsend for those with limited space but desire major production.
How do you propagate new crowns? Thank you. I have learned a lot from your videos.
Do you grow raspberries? If so would love a tutorial on the ever-bearing and on the black varieties re trellising.
I am first crop year just 3 plants ,with 7 more starts coming on. Between the deer nipping the new plants and birds getting most of my fruit,oh well. Now it has been steady heat with above 100°. We did not have your freeze here in n.c.Tx,Grayson County
Jason mentioned when to plant them, Nov-Mar. I'm in North East Kentucky. Would that be the same up here?
Absolutely!
Thank you so much for this info… I’m planting blackberries this year. I feel well informed going into this. Can you tell me at what point in the process do I stop suppressing the prima-cane growth? Thank you again!
I can't remember which video it was, maybe the second or third one, but anyways I noted that he says in early to mid June he stops suppressing primocane growth.
Hi and THANK YOU for your videos on Blackberries! I hope someone can help me with a quick question. The leaves on my brand new blackberry plants are turning brown and dying. I'm not sure if I'm over or under watering.
I'm brand new and just purchased three new plants. I've yet to plant them in my raised bed, per the instructions that came with them, but have them in 1gallon containers in my house
Thank you!!
Do you have them running East to West?
How do you suppress the primocane?
Cut em, nip em, break em, squeeze em. Snip em, pinch em, lop em.
Need some help….I have suppressed my canes till last years harvest was almost done. I then trained 2 canes,one per wire. Then I tipped them once past the top of the cross wire ( 3&5’ ) when the lateral shoots grew along the wire they started vertical shoots…these are showing flower buds? Why is that??? Aren’t they supposed to go though winter then flower next spring?
At some point in the previous video I'm pretty sure he mentions that you have to suppress those shoots until late in the fall, when You can let them grow a little bit before the frost hits.
Cows are eating straw and vegetation that has been treated with herbicide. Its un digested and gets into the compost and on straw. When used in the garden it is still active and hurts the plants. Takes 18 months for it to become inert. Ask about the food the cows eat and straw if used as mulch.
Can take a lot longer than that. Had a good friend that had 5 year old compost destroy his garden because of the hay he fed that was part of it.
Any manure one gets from a stable/farm or any straw/hay purchased: You must ask and be reassured that the hay/straw wasn't grown and treated with Graze-on or a similar weed suppressant. When in doubt...pass on it. All the more reason to raise chickens and compost seriously!