I am giving Berries unlimited one more chance this spring. Maybe they had a bad year?
I ordered twice last year, less than 50% survival rate on various cane berries ( about 12-15 plants over two orders ). All strawberries made it of the 6 bought. They are expensive considering the size of plants from them are very small compared to other companies.
For comparison on survival rates last year I purchased roughly 40 cane berries total, I only had about 2 of roughly 25 cane berries die in total from sources other than berries unlimited last year.
She finally replied (5 days later) and refuses to answer the questions regarding replacing all these with viable plants. She just keeps trying to redirect me & pull some slight-of-hand B.S.
She talks a lot but is not making ANY attempt 2 weeks later, to fix this issue…
Some people say Honeyberry tastes like a Blackberry/Blueberry/Raspberry cross, others say it tastes like Kiwi, and still others say it tastes like Grapefruit.
I remember when BU started selling honeyberries. They were using tissue cultures. They went to Eastern Europe, Russia and said they secured known cultivars. That’s another story. Anyway growing tissue cultured figs compared to rooted cuttings I and many at Ourfigs noticed strange growth habits from the tissue cultured plants. Maybe we are seeing some of that with these honeyberries? We found a fix. Clone the plant and the clones acted normal. Maybe I’ll take some cuttings or an air layer… I have done both myself. It’s something about the plant staying in a juvenile stage longer than they should.
As is these BU plants grow differently than my other honeyberries. Not very impressive.
No worries the owner is used to me we have known each other before this site was here. It’s been about 12 years now.
I know all the mods too. I get flagged about once a week.
You have the best of the Canadian types. Not as good is the Thompson Japanese cultivars. Maxi and Solo cool to have. Solo is the only self fertile honeyberry I know of. More Thompson cultivars I think are released now. You can try them. Honeyberries USA should have them. Any they have are probably worth trying. Although other Russian / Canadian cultivars are not as good as what you got. All the other Canadian ones were before the releases you bought. Not as good, smaller. Lots of work still needed with honeyberries.
I hardened them off, & now they are outside all day in the sun, I bring them in at night to give them freeze protection. They have been out in the sun for a couple weeks now.
ZERO signs of life from any of these plants.
Amazing! I have many hundreds of plants across dozens of species & dozens of varieties of those species, & literally everything has woken up or is actively in the process of waking up, except any of these…
I suggest ordering from honeyberry USA. I just got my shipment from them and their plants are very nice and have absolutely crazy roots. Plants are big too. They also reply super fast and provide really good customer service when you email and ask questions too. Loved my experience with them. I ordered Aurora from them.
P.S She still has not made ANY effort to rectify this / make the customer happy. If I don’t hound her with emails, she just ignores me. Today will be my final email & then it’s just going into Visa dispute.
If you look at figs wrong the grow more roots, but it’s more or less the same My single attempt with honeyberries pinning a branch was unsuccessful, but I started a second attempt yesterday.
For what it is worth honey berry are a bush. They should respond well to separation if you want to duplicate them. That is likely the easiest way to do it this time of year at least where I am.
