Thank you very much for the detailed response. Someone offered the cuttings so I thought I’d give it a try.
Could you give a little more detail on how you use garlic as an antiseptic? Cut it and rub its juice on the area?
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How i use it is how you describe…just cut and rub it over the wound.
If you do an internet search some folks use it to propagate roses, grapes… and there are videos of air layering fruit trees by just applying garlic and a moist paper towel.
There are also discussions in the fig and orchid propagation… where some think that allicin promotes root growth.
Further there are discussions on garlic being allelopathic. So may be beneficial in rooting and warding off everything for that process.
I am not saying any of this as advice…just saying that the information is there if one wants to experiment.
I have seen with my own eyes roses propagated by a vehicle running over them and those injuries forming roots in garbage rocky soil… and roses arent too far from brambles as far as rooting things go.
Lots of variations in propagation.
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The info on Purple Dream purple raspberry has been scrubbed from my internet as far as I can tell. Its almost pointless to try to search on it as there is lots of chatter about 420 also called ‘Purple Dream’.
FWIW i found Roger Ort’s description when they offered it at one time-
Looks to have been sold at Whiffletree nursery at one time but no longer.
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I have seriously thought about getting custom RUBUS plates. Ha.
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…and currently, for Ohio, RUBUS is available.
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…now if you had a hybrid vehicle to put the RUBUS plates onto, that would fit this forum thread title perfectly.
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Oooooo now were thinking. RUBUSX
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Hi everyone, we recently got some warmer weather and my prime ark 45 and boysenberry have started to put out new canes. However, We are going to get a little cold spell in a few days. Will they be safe from low thirties temperatures or should I put some mulch or something on them just in case? I also have a glencoe I got as a tissue culture plug this fall. It has already started to break bud, so I’ll just take it inside those nights since it is just in pots. But it definitely seems to be a low chill plant because we have only had about 250 chill hours.
I also learned that there is a U-pick farm near me that grows olallieberry, so I’ll try to pick one up sometime this year, since it grows well here. Unfortunately, Berry Lady Farms that grew newberry is no longer growing any berries. They pulled them out and replaced them with Pistachio trees so they could focus on retirement. So if anyone knows where I can purchase a newberry, I would appreciate it. Root cuttings or anything is fine, I don’t mind the size. Thanks for your help everyone. I’m excited to grow some berries this season.
You are in California?
Yeah, I’m zone 9b here.
I have them just send me a PM
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Is it true that you shouldn’t grow black raspberries near the red?
I posted this somewhere but I spoke with my extension office about this since stark tells you to not plant them within 100 feet of eachother and the consensus is theres no reason not to. Diseases can spread between them but they tend to spread through sap sucking insects and if you see disease simply spray for those and remove diseased plants is their recommendation (from my memory). Thats at least for long island.
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here we go
Thank you very much for reply.
I agree ok to plant together and before you know it you’ll have purple raspberries volunteering in your yard.
I was just looking at a volunteer blackberry. I often throw fruits in new areas to see what will grow. The plant is staying green, thick stems like the thornless Arkansas plants but it’s thorny. Also is trailing like my westerns. It fruited last year but fruit was not pollinated well with many drupes missing. See this next year what happens.
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Picked up some loganberries and Fall Gold Raspberries from Home Depot yesterday. Normally I would never get raspberries, but I thought I heard Fall Gold did well with heat. I cannot find where I hears that now. I have contemplated loganberries in the past, and these didn’t cost $30 in shipping, so I picked them up. Whether or not these are actual loganberries remains to be seen.
These were being sold next to black currants, honeyberries and gooseberries, so clearly no assurance they will do well here. Insane to me how location ignorant some of the things they sell are.
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they already have plants out by you? interesting.
Any chance you saw josta berries? I was thinking of picking some up but i dont really want to pay shipping lol.
… i gotta see what the bare root roses are like
I don’t remember if there was jostaberries. I wanna say they didn’t have them but they easily could have. Coulda grouped it in my brain with the rest of the “plants that definitely won’t work here”.
For the record, these aren’t bare-root. They are in like square pots with soil. We also always have plants for sale. Winter is garden season, they have tons of tomatoes and brasicas at the big box stores right now.
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yeah i mean home depot sells orange trees here. like. lol
But they also had honeyberry last year which was kinda cool to see