i havent really hunted it. I originally got it to pollinate Crystal White which was found by Burbank not far from Lawton. Neither are really worth growing…and not wise to experiment with wild cultivars that are much more susceptible to modern viruses and diseases.
Ebony King does all that i want for a thorned old timey taste… not to mention the plant is just so magnificent.
The Berries Unlimited lady was going to carry Lydia’s Sweet Giant but i think she lost it to Gurney’s that just calls it Sweet Giant… still waiting to see if that one is worth keeping.
I did a quick search and most all nurseries list it as Z5…
I have no doubt that some folks in Z5 can grow it… and some cant… so it will be hard to say for sure that it does or doesnt.
Myself i had a time getting the canes to size up and i gave up on them… just small canes and small berries. Maybe they need a longer growing season like California etc has…
Did you have good sun exposure all year where you were growing the Boysenberry plant? I’m thinking rapid cold weather extreme fluctuations like there can be in the northern Plains and Midwest in winter may also be less than ideal.
I’m going to give boysenberries from Rudy’s a shot in zone 6b. Wish me luck. At the end of this season, I’ll bury the canes in heavy mulch, bring them into my unheated garage and wrap a frost blanket around the container. I’ll know in about 15 months from now if my experiment was successful. Ha.
Just got bare root Loganberries from Tractor Supply. It just so happens that I was putting a trellis up for my Giant Granadilla passion fruit seedling and was going to have alot of extra space on it. I was also going to get a dewberry as well, but I don’t think they would do well with the heat. Pretty sure the loganberries are going to struggle some too, but the spot has a few hours of dapple light, so its not full sun.
im on year 2 of growing it. Plants came in pretty weak and tiny in 2024… i got about 3 feet of growth floppy. Will cut all of those to the ground soon… so 2026 will probably have something to discuss.
$54 for one plant will likely keep most folks away from it.
Either my Crimson Giant died or its one of the slowest to wake up compared to everyone else.
I was supposed to go digging around this weekend but no one stopped by to help so i couldn’t going to try to do some scratching around to see if my fall gold and double gold are still alive lol. Of all my raspberries, almost everything has sent up a sprout or few except those 3
going to try to do some scratching around to see if my fall gold and double gold are still alive lol. Of all my raspberries, almost everything has sent up a sprout or few except those 3