I’ve not encountered any info about there being selected, named clones with superior traits, so I don’t think we’re missing out on anything by growing from seed. The 24 days since my last post where I showed the picture of my seedlings is not enough time for me to have grown them to maturity and evaluated them, so it’ll be a while yet before I can answer those questions.
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Have you tasted the leaves? Do you plan to trellis them or are they freestanding? I wonder also if they sucker or better grown in a pot.
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The size may not be clear from the picture. These are tiny babies. I’m not cutting off any of their leaves and risking their health. I’m not thinking about how I would manage them in the garden until I get a better sense of their growth habit.
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Growth update. These seedlings are really taking off now. I might just have to back peddle on what I said about not trying the leaves any time soon.
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The hemp leaf thing would put me off too, even knowing it’s not. Interesting that the sweet compound is in the leaves rather than the fruit. Makes me wonder if anyone has actually managed to grow it to fruiting stage in a temperate climate or whether it just stays as a tea plant curiosity.
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If you actually take a look at hemp leaves, they are not actually quite the same appearance as these Rubus leaves. It’s only a bit of a resemblance and not anything which could easily be mistaken by anyone who actually was used to seeing real hemp. Two primary and consistent differences seem to be the differences in the appearance of the serrated leaf edges, and the difference in depth of the leaf lobe divisions.
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