@steveb4 … the top half to 1/3 of my new raspberry pcanes remain green until first hard frost. They bloom and fruit Sept-Nov… but (the majority have lost many of the lower leaves to foliage issues)
My raspberry fcanes (the spent fcanes that just finished their spring / early summer crop) they start dieing as the last weeks worth of berries are ripening. They go down fast when fruiting nears the finish.
Then they are just a mass of dead canes and rotting leaves mixed in with my new pcanes.
I think the couple of weeks that they are in the bed together is what passes the foliage issues on to my primocanes.
When i remove the spent fcanes… my pcanes then get plenty of sun… it is then much less crowded in my bed.
For me that happens typically end of June.
I can then give my new pcanes some extra care… frertilizer, water (thru our hottest months). I tip prune them around 4 or 4.5 ft… and they send out a bunch of laterals from the tip prune (for fall crop).
I may try next year…leaving the bottom 2/3 or 1/2 of the spent fcanes in the bed until fall… but removing all the dead foilage and lateral branches from them.
That way they would not be depriving my new pcanes so much sunshine… and the bulk of the dead and rotting stuff would be ramoved… hopefully minimizing the funk to get passed on to my pcanes.
I will make no changes to my illini blackberry handling… it has been working great for 20+ years. They dedinately do not need any help from the spent fcanes to grow some big stout pcanes.
This ripened over the weekend and we ate it while camping at the Northwest String Summit (a music festival near Portland, OR). This is what this cultivar looks like when completely ripe, with just the faintest yellow blush on green:
I didn’t take any photos of it cut because it was so messy, but here’s the seed and the seedling I found inside the seed (compass is included because it has inches & cm marked):
Looks mono-embryonic to me, so probably zygotic rather than a clone. Also looks like it might have some kind of black mold on it? Either way, it was a delicious mango and I’m excited to get scionwood from my brother to graft this on my greenhouse tree.
I planted what I thought was Black Beauty eggplant. The big teardrop shaped ones. But, instead we got little round ones! ? And they are bitter. I love the Japanese eggplants - and thank goodness, I planted some of those too. Yours look very nice, @Naeem.
They are so good! It hasn’t rained here in about 2 weeks it seems and the peaches and plums are so sweet. We’ve been freezing the peaches and made BlackBerry cobbler. If I have time I will can some of the plums. Great year for blackberries too!
Pom, the best eggplants I ever grew were japanese, but they were white and lavender striped. They were very sweet and the skin was so thin you did not have to peel them. Perfect for moussaka!
We have 4 more plumerias on our back patio in these wooden half-barrels. The size is fine but the straps are rusting and a few have fallen off. I’m not sure yet if I’ll re-strap or replace.
