Still prefer Quachita and Navaho for pure flavor and great firm keeping.
@Drew51 claims his exclusive wyeberry is superior to the typical boysenberry. I tried to get it, but its been impossible to source.
Has anyone gotten a wyeberry from Drew that can talk about it more?
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It took me about 3 years to get it. I tried every lead i could find and Drew for at least 2 years. Mine will be more mature this year and i will know more about it. Last year it ripened a week or so give or take before Boysen. I also brought back Newberry to the public and have shared it with a few folks on here so that it doesnt get lost again. I think Newberry is the best of the hybrids myself… and Wyeberry being almost Whyberry.
Newberry and another hybrid i grow Silvanberry also made the wiki page… as they may be replacements for Boysenberry to some.
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Where did you end up sourcing the wyeberry from? Was it a forum member who sourced it from drew? The week earlier harvest tracks on what drew said as well.
Hopefully you can propagate it this season and get some starts out to the community.
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I got it from Boston Mountain Nursery.
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I am going to i hope. I have had a testy winter here and im hoping there isnt much if any winter damage. Lets see how it fruits etc this year now that its more mature and go from there.
I also have Riwaka Boysenberry going and there is almost no pics or much about it either. It will be 2026 before i know much more about it. I got it from Roger Ort. (ortfamilyfarms) in NJ.
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…and he must have gotten it from New Zealand?
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not sure… he has Boysenberry #43 also… which doesnt interest me that much…its a seedling but supposedly very good also.
He has decades ahead of me in being a fruit hunter and he is retired from Cornell U… so im sure he has had some amazing connections in the breeding world.
He has an amazing nursery in NY with all kinds of hard to find things… i posted about it a year or so ago with no interest from anyone.
Boysenberry #43 aka Clone 43 as well as Riwaka’s Choice discussed here… other than that not much to be found.
So obviously alot of plant material has been available to scholars here in the US.
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It’s a long read, but unfortunately this article indicates Riwaka’s Choice boysenberry may be suseptible to Double Blossom, or Boysenberry decline as they called it.
History of Boysenberry and Youngberry in New Zealand in relation to their problems with Boysenberry decline the association of a fungal pathogen and (2).pdf (1.5 MB)
Nonetheless, someone got the bright idea of a boysenberry cider line using purely Riwaka’s Choice as their berry. Boysenberry Cider - 330ml can – Peckham's Cider
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Not sure if i will have that issue here… but it was an issue in NZ twenty five years ago…that i think they resolved for the most part.
https://nzpps.org/_journal/index.php/nzpp/article/view/6046/5874
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