Granted I should have never let the canes grow 8ft long. Everywhere they touch new plant. How can I murder all these children.
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Triple Crown is a vigorous grower, even laterals will tip-root. By far the easiest method to prevent tip-rooting is to trellis or keep pruned very short.
For your neglected patch pictured above, take a small shovel and chop out every rooted stem 4-6 inches deep; you may need to repeat this for a year or two until all the new roots are starved out underground.
Or, you can sever them back to the original plants and start spraying the unwanted plants.
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I agree we need to try those on a large scale.
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The plus side is you can gift everyone in your neighborhood a free blackberry plant!
Or you can sell all your little plants on craigslist for $10 each and show the rest of your family what a good investment growing fruit is.
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You can distribute them to the forum members😹
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I’m a sucker for any fruiting plant like TC that wants to reproduce that strongly. It took me half a day to trellis my blackberry vines because every time I found another tip root, I’d gather things and pot it up, thinking someone will really want that. Now my patio is covered with pots waiting on friends to come pick them up. One of best parts of growing, is sharing, and TC makes that easy!
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Lol! My raspberry did that! Meeker is nutty, it has babies growing in the lawn.
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