it is a relatively vigorous species. It was a self-rooted specimen(or at least it seemed like) when received it from burntridge. Here in vegas, it grew ~8 feet in one summer(several uprights), but slowed down thereafter and seemed to have devoted most of its growth on laterals, which are more productive of berries per unit length of stem.
have to say it is a fast grower compared to nigras and gerardi’s, even in full sun, with hardly any shortening of internode stems… The laterals have shorter internodes, so might benefit to keep laterals and top off at the apical buds.
