My thought is maybe they are hidden or cultivar are blocked by the other raspberries. My arctic raspberries are all in the open under my fruit trees. I also bought 10 plants. Like I said they have berries on them already.
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So long as you like them, it should be worth trying. At least itās not as if the high prices are just a recent thing. I remember seeing pints going for $8-$12 each in the 80ās so I shudder to think what they run into now. ( I agree the sellers earn their prices and I also had no interest in slogging through bogs in hip waders to pick them, so was happy I donāt enjoy the taste)
I do really miss picking blueberries on the barrens however. The highbush stuff here in Ontario is a very different taste.
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Cloudberry seeds donāt respond to normal scarfication techniques. The only way they found to work was cutting the seeds in half. I found the paper through google.
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I want to grow cloudberries. I have studied it for a year.
I also grow wasabi which others said was impossible but now a lot of people on youtube do it and it didnāt turn out to be difficult at all, people even grow it in pots. However itās still virtually impossible to get wasabi in the states as it isnāt really grown and it goes bad within minutes of being processedā¦
anyway back to cloudberries does anyone have a source of plants?
I can find
and these seem to be the best resources Iāve found
oh crazy to see you here (after talking to you today about honeyberries) years ago HA!
If you open the canopy up and give them good sun they produce is the only secret Iāve learned from people hunting in alaska. Otherwise the plant stays on the ground without any berries.
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i tried growing them everyway i could. in pots, separate. together. they spread all over my plantings now, mixed with my improved wild strawberries from the strawberry store. i tried growing cloudberry about 5 years ago from seed i got off ebay from Finland. i scarified and stratified not a 1 sprouted for me. ive been looking for plants online and on bogs here. nada, even though they are native to Maine.
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Yea thatās cool, crazy how difficult they are. Makes me want to grow them even more in my lab lol. Sounds like a pain if all I had were seeds to start with though.
They shoot up berries too in the natural dirt, or no berries at all?
Why you trying to buy them if you have them?
I read a small 3 inch plant can have underground runners up to like 30ft away and pop up another plant
the quote you posted of mine was for my arctic raspberries. ive never been able to grow cloudberries.
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Iāve picked and eaten them in the Yukon Delta of western Alaska. Locally they are referred to as salmonberries (in other parts of the state a salmonberry is also a different kind of berry). They grow in the tundra- lots of wind, lots of rain, lots of fog, and more snow than sun. These berries are definitely the best of the tundra berries- they have an intense creamy tart flavor.
Tundra berries are down at your feet so your back starts to hurt after a while. And they arenāt super dense so itās not like you can sit down and pick a bunch. You have to be constantly hunched over or crawling around on your knees.
Some things are just meant for the wild. It might be difficult to replicate the conditions they need to set fruit, and if you did, for the amount of space you would need to dedicate to get a handful of berries, you could just as easily planted raspberries and picked a gallon of fruit instead.
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canāt wait to build an entire cold bogish/fog enclosure to get 1 berry. My dream 
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