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Post by mwamsley on Mar 20, 2013 16:40:17 GMT -5
Hi All....new here. I grow many types of fruits, and am just starting to get into veggies. A lot of my recent searches for plant information have directed to this board (oca to be specific). I have spent most of the 2000s on the bulletin boards rarefruit (yahoo groups) and cloudforestcafe. I am an avid fan of the genus Rubus. It's a good thing because I live in Rubus country! I have had a number of private conversations with Alan Bishop regarding his Rubus adventures. In fact, I am the Mark he mentions in the blog post titled "The "White Blackberry" rabbit hole goes deeper still!": homegrowngoodness.blogspot.com/2012/03/white-blackberry-rabbit-hole-goes.html. The history of fruit creations and the breeders that create them is of deep interest to me. I hope to learn a lot from you all, and hopefully I can return the favor. Mark W Seattle, WA |
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Post by cortona on Mar 20, 2013 18:23:41 GMT -5
Welcome Mark! lots of useful info here andlotos and lots of good people!hope you can enjoy this forum!
Emanuele
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 20, 2013 19:52:06 GMT -5
Hi Mark,
Love the Cloudforest Cafe!
Do you grow thimbleberries?
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Post by trixtrax on Mar 20, 2013 21:14:50 GMT -5
Hi Mark and welcome from the Seattle area  |
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Post by stratcat on Mar 20, 2013 23:05:07 GMT -5
Hi there, Mark. Welcome to HG! Yes, I've read two articles in the blog about those 'White Blackberries' and have been wondering the outcome. |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Mar 21, 2013 5:43:08 GMT -5
Welcome, love to hear about your Rubus adventures. I am hoping to add Rubus phoenicolasius to the farm this year, and a few blackberries. Blackberries are very marginal weak performers for us here, which probably sounds crazy for someone in Seattle.
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Post by Penny on Mar 21, 2013 9:22:13 GMT -5
Hi there and Welcome.
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Post by wolfcub on Mar 21, 2013 9:40:16 GMT -5
Hi and welcome from Vancouver Island,
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Post by mwamsley on Mar 21, 2013 10:53:09 GMT -5
Hi, thanks for the welcome. I don't grow Thimbleberries because they grow wild here and are fairly bland compared to others. They are beautiful. I like to grow blackberry/dewberry crosses based on our wild R. ursinus. I also grow eastern blackberries.
I am very interested in Cloudberries ("salmonberries" in AK; Rubus chamaemorus), but they appear to be one of the most difficult to grow. I am considering making a bog to try to grow some.
I have heard that they grow on parts of Vancouver Island starting near Nanaimo. I would like to take a trip up there to observe.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 21, 2013 15:24:03 GMT -5
Welcome Mark!
Have you ever tried growing Tayberries or Loganberries?
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Post by davida on Mar 21, 2013 21:16:33 GMT -5
and a few blackberries. Blackberries are very marginal weak performers for us here Tim, Have you tried the primocane varieties? Prime Ark 45 and Prime Jan may be good for your area. In the video, the breeder said that Prime Jan is a better variety than Prime Jim. As you know but for the guests, primocane varieties produce on both the primocanes (first year's growth) and floricanes (second year's growth. So you get two shots at getting a harvest every year. The floricanes should produce in June or July and the primocanes in August or September. The primocanes will probably not produce the first year or if your summer temps get over 95F unless you are fantastic blackberry county. Blackberries are a big hit with the grandchildren. I have 3 varieties and will be adding 4 more this year. David |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Mar 22, 2013 7:02:57 GMT -5
No, not to my knowledge. There is a very sad planting of blackberries created by the previous owner that produces a tiny handful of small sour fruit each summer. There are also wild berries around that I've only seen produce similar tiny sad fruits until last summer. There is a new vibrant blackberry thicket in an area in our woodlot. There is a very small silted in pond that I tried to clear the trees back from somewhat and the pond dam now has enough light for a very vigourous blackberry thicket to grow. They gave me the best blackberry harvest we've had since we've moved here. Enough to top 7 or 8 bowls of ice cream. The berries are nothing like the enormous berries that grow rampantly in every cleared location in the Seattle area. It seems like blackberries just struggle to hold on in my climate.
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Post by mwamsley on Mar 22, 2013 10:08:11 GMT -5
I grow Loganberry, but not Tayberry. Loganberries grow to nearly 10 grams in my lot!
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Post by bunkie on Mar 22, 2013 10:43:40 GMT -5
welcome to the forum mark! we're from the other side of the state. we're playing with thornless blackberries here and having great success.
i have been very interested in the white blackberry since alan posted about them. look forward to reading more of your posts.
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Post by atash on Mar 23, 2013 18:57:38 GMT -5
Greetings from Seattle, Mark.
I've grown thornless "upright" blackberries, which performed nicely and bore excellent fruit, but seem to be short-lived.
Domesticated raspberries a total failure in my yard. They are too susceptible to root rot. One exception, that has been growing rampantly, Autumn Gold, has bland fruit.
I'm trying Japanese Wineberries and the native R. occidentlis, to see if they might be more resistant to fungal diseases.
Lots of other berries in my yard.
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