How to start new boysenberry plants

Jeanette Boysen Fitzgerald shows how to start new boysenberry plants from an existing mature plant.
We grow Rudy's Original Heritage Boysenberries. Our vines have been cared for and handed down in the Boysen family for nearly 100 years. USDA recently confirmed that we grow the original boysenberry.
Grandpa Rudy Boysen invented the boysenberry in 1923 on a small farm in Napa California. Today we grow these amazing boysenberries at Boysen Berry Farm in Northern California. Taste the original. You'll never be satisfied with anything less!

[@ManBearPigPierced]

My mouth dropped at the amount of healthy roots :0

[@lordocasl7366]

Thank you. I brought a Boysenberry plant from California, (I lived near Knott's Boysenberry Farm), to my new home in North Carolina. After about a year and a half it produced just one full Boysenberry. No joke just one. This year, two and a half years later I have tons of immature fruit! I wish I could send you pictures.

[@rayw8177]

i found your page looking to see what i can plant with the boysenberry's i purchased from knott's in orange county? i grew up having these and many other edible plants, mainly both sets of grandparents. i have 5 plants put them in large containers, 2'Tx4' sq and was thinking maybe a squash type plants that are ground covering and grow out and onto the ground from pots??

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

Hi! Thanks for asking! Your boysenberry vines will grow roots that will need no competition from any other plants once they mature. An interesting backstory you might like to know...Walter Knott of Knott's Berry Farm got his first boysenberry plants from my grandfather, Rudy Boysen, the originator of the boysenberry, back in 1932.

[@Coolguyallthetime2k]

Will these grow in part sun like my raspberry and blackberries?

[@jessicaherrera7900]

Why do you have to wash off the roots?

[@feyisbored]

Im glad i found you guys. I inherited a potted boysenberry bush my friend had bought at Knotts Berry Farm the year before. She was leaving the state and so i took it and left it in our parkway because the pot was so heavy. This summer i found berries on it! This fall i will attempt to move it into a proper section along our backyard fence and see what happens next 💜

[@ladweeb1798]

I live in SoCal. I want to buy one of these plants!

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

HI! We sell boysenberry plants from February through May, but only for local pickup from our farm, Boysen Berry Farm, in Orland, CA. Please go to our website, RudysOriginal.com, and sign up for our newsletter so we can notify you of when the new vines will be available.

[@kittykitty0204]

​@@boysenberryfarm7863Are you the supplier of the boysenberry plants Knott's Berry Farm sells during their spring Boysenberry festival?

[@lordocasl7366]

I just left Socal. I lived in Rancho Cucamonga. I left 3 years ago after living in Socal all my life. I have visited Knott's Boysenberry Farm ever since I was a child several times a year. I moved to North Carolina when I was 69 years old, now 73. (I don't recommend anyone to leave California, I miss it every day.) Anyway, I digress. I brought some vines with me. And after 2 years they are doing great! I do believe that Knotts, I'm not sure what time of year, sells their vines to the public. You might check it out. Nothing like getting them from the original source. ❤

[@MikesPOV]

When will plants be available?

[@tonykraft2649]

I am looking for a boysenberry cutting or seeds that I can grow on madeira. Can anyone help me?

[@firstlast1282]

How can we purchase your boysenberry seeds? Thank you

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

HI! Thanks for asking! We sell boysenberry plants starting in February through May, but only for local pickup from our farm, Boysen Berry Farm, in Orland, CA. Please go to our website, RudysOriginal.com, and sign up for our newsletter so we can notify you of when the new vines will be available.

[@firstlast1282]

@@boysenberryfarm7863 Thank you very much. I’ll visit you when the dates come around. I have an Actual Boysenberry plant from Knotts Berry Farm. Bought it at 1ft high, it’s now 12 ft and spreading like crazy. I’ve seen your awesome plants and want one of those too. Thank you and have a Berry Nice day.

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

@@firstlast1282 What a great idea! Then you can have a taste test when you compare the berries from the two different vines. You will be amazed!

[@vegandolls]

@@firstlast1282 My friend just mailed me the plant- I'm wondering what the hardiness zone is. I live in Northern New Mexico and we have very cold winters. It's a zone b. I'm trying to decide if i should plant it in ground or if it's suitable for a container...?

[@firstlast1282]

@@vegandolls I would go with a container, a clay pot. That way you can better control the soil and water quality.

[@Coco5tribe]

Question is do we really need 2 plants? I had them in. The ground and one don’t make it thru the snow winter we got here and I’m in Yucaipa ca we don’t always get snow. Should I attempt to purchase another berry plant or just let the one grow?

[@mikedoingmikethings702]

I've bought boysenberry last year and it's been thriving here in Las Vegas, but I'm trying to arm myself with as much knowledge as I can... that's method she showed at the end is called "air layering". The original method of air layering. The other method is by using a bag of soil, cutting the bark off and scraping the cambium layer and wrapping the soil around the area with the cambium layer and bark are removed...

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Thanks for sharing! Boysenberries are a gift to the world! Can't beat the flavor, fresh or cooked, there's just something about them. Just got two plants yesterday at Knotts. Can't wait for the berries.

[@judyjackson2260]

How do boysenberries compare in health benefits to blueberries??

[@reposaado1079]

I’m growing my own in Charleston, SC although I think they are succumbing to something the leaves are curling. One is fruiting though

[@plantbasedprepper]

What happens to the vine that is now upside down? Will it continue growing more shoots?

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

That's the beauty of tip-starting! The vine tip that's been placed into the ground won't continue growing more shoots, necessarily, because that's already happened over the summer. The tip that stays connected to the mother plant goes into the ground and will develop roots over time (16-20 weeks) to sustain a new plant. Once the roots are the size of a softball, you will cut the mothervine tip free and put it back up on the trellis, where it will form blossoms that become boysenberries in late spring. You'll dig up the roots and have a new boysenberry vine!

[@plantbasedprepper]

@@boysenberryfarm7863 My Boysenberry plant is 3 years old...wish I would have done this years ago. It's still very small but produced berries this year. Still not enough for any boysenberry jelly :( I will have to see how many tips there is growing and put them in pots of soil now and just let them root. Besides that, is it possible to plant stem cuttings and propagrate that way too from a longer vine?

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

@@plantbasedprepper thanks for asking! I tried doing it that way before I learned how to tip-start. I took cuttings and planted them with rooting hormone, placed them under grow lights, kept them moist, and within 3 weeks they were all dead. I talked to a professional propagator who grows by the millions, and he said the boysenberry is a hybrid and must be tip-started. Maybe if you were a miracle worker with a perfect greenhouse environment, you could propagate with cuttings. It's a sure bet with tip-starts, though!

[@plantbasedprepper]

@@boysenberryfarm7863 I was actually asking a different question. With growing using the tip starting method...you are putting the stem from the mother plant upside down. From all of the cutting methods I've learned, they state, do not put the stem upside down. However, with tip starts, do you just cut off the upside down stem after or does it matter that you have that one stem upside down?

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

You have to leave the tip of the stem (that you bury) connected to the mother plant until roots have actually developed underground from that tip. We have propagated thousands of boysenberry plants that way. You do not cut the stem free until the tip that has been buried in the dirt for the last 16 to 20 weeks has developed enough roots on its own while still connected to the mother plant. When it has enough roots, you can cut it free and put the rest of the cane that is still connected to the mother plant back up on the trellis line.

[@candacegarcia8272]

How long will it take for berries to grow on the new propagated plants?

[@boysenberryfarm7863]

Hi! Boysenberry vines start producing berries in their second year.

[@candacegarcia8272]

@@boysenberryfarm7863 thank you!

[@charlesbale8376]

Thanks for the info.

[@josemarquez8413]

Thanks!