HOW TO GROW THORNLESS BLACKBERRY PLANTS
Craving for juicy blackberries then why not grow it?
Yes you read it right!
Even if you have experienced thorns while picking the wild blackberries in the woods, never mind, you can grow domesticated thornless varieties by yourself.
Read ahead to know how to grow thornless blackberry plants?
Well drained soil, full Sun and your timely attention is all that your thornless blackberry plant would need.
TYPES OF BLACKBERRIES:
- Erect thorny blackberries
- Erect thornless blackberries
- Trailing thornless blackberries
Here we’ll learn to grow and harvest thornless blackberry plants and caring tips for growing thornless blackberry plants.
Once the berry is ripe and you get to have the bountiful and luscious blackberries, you’ll realize that thornless blackberries are one of the most easy and productive fruit you can ever grow.
You can’t go wrong with any of these thornless blackberry varieties:
Arapaho, Apache, Natchez, Navaho or Ouachita.
Thornless blackberry plants grow long straight branches called canes (stems). Usually during summer these canes bear fruit. All blackberry plants are perennial and their roots survive year after year. However, the part of the plant above the soil has biennial growth that means for one year the canes grow vegetatively, next year it bears fruit and then dies.
Each year the plant sends the new cane replacing the dead ones. Woody canes of thornless black berry plants produce fruit and if cared properly the fruit quality can be improved.
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