Is it too late to PRUNE Blackberry plants in the Summer

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When is the best time to prune your blackberry plants? Right Now. It is never really too late. Some people call them blackberry bushes, but really they are blackberry vines, or blackberry plants. I will teach you how to prune your blackberries for maximum production. be sure to check out our 6 tips on growing blackberries video right here on KZbin.
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[@Rick0125]

good info on pruning. the hollar homestead mentioned your channel. thanks

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks 😀 they are good friends

[@Redeemed7777]

@@FarmAlarm I'm also watching your video because of them...

[@Susan77ism]

@@Redeemed7777 Me too!

[@Trakehner20]

I found since RareSeeds subbed. Sounds like a great channel.

[@ourselfreliantlife]

That's a really good point about the pruning. It kind of goes against what one might normally think. "Larger is better". Keeping them shorter and trimmed produces better fruit. Let's hear it for short and sweet!!😆👍 (self deprecating short joke)

[@FarmAlarm]

Lol short joke.

[@maracohen5930]

@@FarmAlarm Vertically challenged!

[@TheTaniaHill]

I live in NYC and I am obsessed with farm life, I have binged on The Hollar Homestead channel and I couldn't wait to come and watch you. I need to leave this concrete jungle and move to a greener space. :) keep on encouraging us!

[@deaconlyric]

I am in Brooklyn and on the same path. I now volunteer at Bushwick City Farm. Find a garden or micro farm near you and just stop by every once in a while to get back to nature.

[@TheTaniaHill]

@@deaconlyric I live in Queens and I have a small patch of land about 15X15 feet and I have an avocado tree growing, I dreaming too big LOL. But I love gardening. I mostly use it for flowers.

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks for sharing your story! I agree, leave the concrete jungle, and dont look back. You won't regret it 😀😀 Thanks for the great comments to you both!

[@RT3Creations-Learn]

Solid explanation. Simple and concise. Some of the other videos I have seen get a bit complicated for me. Thanks for the content!

[@whitehouseonthehill]

The blackberry master at work! Good thing you had let them grow tall... the government couldn’t find you when they flew over 😀

[@FarmAlarm]

I TOTALLY should have dove into the BlackBerry patch and told the camera that *"they found me, time to hide"* Lol

[@marysimpson8457]

What a wealth of information on pruning blackberry plants!!

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks Mary 😀😀

[@Duncan1900Homestead]

Thanks for explaining how, why, and when to prune blackberries.

[@FarmAlarm]

You're quite welcome Duncan

[@springgoodhart8676]

Also found you via the hollars. Great vid, thanks!

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks!

[@lisaporria7307]

Came to you from The Holler Homestead. Great video and I noticed in comments this applies to raspberries too! I'm in North Idaho and won't have blackberries until the end of August. Great info! I'm subscribing😁

[@FarmAlarm]

Hey thanks Lisa! You sure can apply these methods to raspberries. Thanks for the great comment

[@theyellowhousehomestead8669]

Here from the Hollar Homestead too.

[@FarmAlarm]

👍👍👍

[@lykri3350]

ThU for the quick and thorough reply. Mine is not growing that tall, but the new growth IS taller than the productive part of the plant. Since I don't have a green thumb at all, I appreciate the guidance to caring for what I can think of caring for around here. I started clearing brush and did find a blackberry bush It's a small one, but it has some green berries on it. I even drove a thorn into my hand as a constant reminder of it. :)

[@FarmAlarm]

You're welcome. And thank you very much for the original question. Good luck with your blackberry growing , and good luck with those Thorns LOL

[@PaulaJoDavis]

Came over from the Hollar Homestead. Liking what I hear and see!! Will continue to peruse your videos as I LOVE fruiting bushes and trees....especially strawberries and blackberries! Blessings from NE Missouri!

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks Paula, or should I say *neighbor* 😆😆

[@PaulaJoDavis]

Yes, we are neighbors in Missouri. I'm in Louisiana, MO right now. Our family is looking to relocate after the recent flooding which drowned almost all of our gardens. We lost honey berry plants but the elderberry and blackberry survived. Everything else beside the asparagus, a few beet plants and one lone strawberry died. **sigh** Seeing as this house floods every year, we are more than ready to go. Just have to find a place that we can call our own away from any major river! LOL! Right now we're two blocks from the Mississippi and that's obviously way too close. We're waling on buckled floors and aren't even gong in the basement....black mold and floating insulation. Anyway, glad to hear we are neighbors!

[@patburgard2115]

Holler homestead sent me too, great info

[@glorialeach7301]

Came to you from The Hollar Homestead 👍

[@FarmAlarm]

Way cool 😀😀😀😀😀

[@HegenerHomestead]

Hear of you from the Hollar Homestead. I have blackberry and raspberry plants all over but not really where I want to have them. They don't seem to be producing anything, I think I got like... 5 berries... So I'm kind of trying to get rid of them but haven't had much time and they come back with a vengeance! Maybe next year we'll actually get berries and I won't be so eager to annihilate them from our garden space and yard.

[@pedrovision6987]

First 1949 Chevy...now, blackberries...SUBBED!!!

[@24upickles]

I grow thorn less blackberries on wire the same as you grow grapes. I replace two canes every two years. One plant with 4 canes each 4 metres long gives me about 20 x 2 litre containers full. I freeze them to use off season.

[@FarmAlarm]

That is great!

[@talkandeattv]

hollar homestead sent me❤️

[@FarmAlarm]

😀👍

[@George_theguy-29]

Two of my blackberry plants I have are suffering but hopefully they come back🤞

[@culdesacgrocerygarden]

Really good information. Super happy to hear that they can be kept short because I am not very tall.

[@OurSoVaLife]

Great info, thanks for sharing. Love blackberries, started a couple rows a couple years ago,,expanding each year. Thanks Tracy

[@FarmAlarm]

Hey long time no see, good to hear from you. That is super cool that you are growing blackberries!

[@allanbonnieguffey5634]

Appreciate all this helpful information

[@FarmAlarm]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching Bonnie 👍

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

Love Blackberries! Yum!

[@FarmAlarm]

Delicious!

[@Yin-Yang-444]

Great video. Very informative.

[@bethydurbin6796]

Great info. Came from Holler Homestead! Hugs

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks so much Beth. The Hollar's are great people

[@SwampyAcresHomestead]

Great video thanks for sharing thanks for the info 👍🏼

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks and you're welcome 👍

[@kaitlinsfamilyfarmstead]

Thank you for the great information!

[@FarmAlarm]

You're welcome, and thank you

[@BostonMountainHomestead]

Thank you for the helpful information

[@FarmAlarm]

You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback 👍😀

[@kr4awkr4aw5]

Do you have any videos on Triple Crown Blackberries?? I have one plant that has a one-and-a-half-inch thick stock. I've been sticking all the lateral runs in the ground hoping to have more plants that way. I got huge delicious berries from it. Can't wait for next years. Great video very well explained you should be a teacher thank you

[@Can-Dot]

Hi there I just found you Via the Hallard Homestead. Question that you have probably gotten repeatedly. I live in town with a small yard. I had raspberries but they kept spreading so I eventually chopped them down and spent the next few years beating down the runners. Is there a way to keep them contained? I was thinking of cutting the bottom off a bucket or barrel even and burying it into the ground. But how deep do I have to go to keep the root system from invading surrounding areas? Or will that even work at all? Any info would be appreciated. Take care.

[@harc3524]

You guys should come out to the Tomato Day in New Franklin Aug. 1st starting at 6 PM.

[@BostonMountainHomestead]

What makes the fruit sweeter. We had a plant that when it first fruited it was very sweet then the next year we had alot of poke in the berries and they were not sweet

[@FarmAlarm]

That is a strange situation. Perhaps try amending your soil with straw or other organic matter to make sure the plants are getting good nutrients.

[@truejoy3779]

Blackberry jam...yummmm ;o)

[@FarmAlarm]

Yum indeed

[@CreatingEssence]

Thanks for all this info! We have red raspberries- do they grow similarly? I'm a complete newb.

[@FarmAlarm]

You're welcome, and thank you for asking. Raspberries and blackberries do grow very similar. You could take all of these tips and put them towards your raspberry growing. Thanks for watching

[@stepht5]

Great information!

[@tammysarrazin7078]

gotta love trying to do a video and a noisy helicopter intrudes lol great video hugssss from Ontario Canada

[@FarmAlarm]

LOL yes that helicopter made me lose my train of thought for a second

[@sandramadden6966]

Just found your channel - thank you. We just bought large property with tons of wild blackberry brambles on them. I'm finishing up picking what I can get to this year (now that I know what we have and where we have it). I'd like to tame them. I've noticed that when the berries are done, the vines pretty much die. Can I just go ahead and go in and cut out the dead vines (there are SOOOO many!). And then can I prune and dig up some of this year's new growth (some are 6-8ft long already) and transplant those to nice rows with trellises? If I do, will a transplanted vine still produce next year?

[@HomesteadByBigfoot]

good info.

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks!

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Great explanation of pruning semi erect blackberries, thanks!

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks Cynthia

[@Bentonendflowerfarm]

I'm confused? in the UK our blackberries grow wild everywhere, they come back year after year, full of berries!??? so 2 years only? can anyone explain? maybe Ive missed something?

[@oceanluv88]

the berries grow on the second year branches, but the plants themselves come back every year. hope that helps.

[@hremaddox]

I agree that that was confusing. I was confused too. What he meansis that they grow berries on old wood.

[@penningtongardenlife5350]

Great information, this is my second year growing blackberry so I needed this information. Thank you. If you don’t mind I would like to share this on my Facebook group Penningtons garden life. 😁❤️ Cheryl

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks so much for the comment Cheryl. I'm glad it helped. I would love for you to share it with your Facebook friends 👍😀

[@penningtongardenlife5350]

Farm Alarm it’s shared, I hope it helps to get you more subscribers. 😁❤️ Cheryl

[@donnynapitupulu3740]

Hollar army here

[@FarmAlarm]

👍😀

[@chrisbaker528]

Thanks for the great information. I pruned by primocane in late june and now they need to be pruned again. The laterals are going wild trying to root so it is ok to prune them now? It is aug. 1. Thanks

[@FarmAlarm]

Totally fine to prune now. 😀👍🏼

[@plurmingo1]

Grow yr1, harvest yr 2, succession plant yr 2 for yr 3, and compost yr 2’s plants ? I’m I understanding correctly?

[@meuandthelot]

After fruiting the canes will die back, which is good for the main crown. Those can and should be cut out to keep airflow, access and manageable "rows" "Patches"

[@FarmAlarm]

That is correct Brandy. I would add, If you are going to compost down the Old plants, do not do that too close to your BlackBerry patch. They can attract cane borer beetles.

[@WendyK656]

Tracy, How about Raspberries? can you prune them now? Thank you

[@FarmAlarm]

You sure can prune them now 😀 thanks for the question

[@TheBzybees]

Excellent video. What variety of blackberry do you grow?

[@FarmAlarm]

We grow Apache erect thornless blackberries

[@cathrinem2722]

hi I need some help my husband dug up a thorny blackberry plant that belongs to a neighbor that moved I live in California the plant is big maybe 6foot and it is in a container should I cut it down some. it looks like it dying could it be saved if not could I propagate from it like take some cutting please any info you can give will be appreciated than you and God bless TODAY 3-23-22

[@judyhowell7075]

Do you propagate the cutting?

[@Tara-sf7uu]

I wanted to ask how one can tell the difference in everbearing and fall bearing brambles? Many of my tags have been lost and im not sure which one to prune which way

[@glory_gate]

my Thornless Blackberries are sour ! Is it true that adding salt solution will amend the fruit to become sweeter ?

[@GreenWitchHomestead]

I hope you see this. I'm new to your channel but we are just down the road from yall. And I'm wondering do you sell as pick your own or do u have a fruit stand? And do you ever sell any cains?

[@FarmAlarm]

We have a upick patch. We do sell canes, but unfortunately we don't have any right now. Just got so big so fast .

[@atomca]

I like to buy blackberry please tell me when ?and where ? I can buy? Thanks

[@janeschmidgall91]

This was excellent advice! Do you know what varieties would be erect? Also, do deer bother them?

[@FarmAlarm]

Thanks so much a Jane. We grow Apache thornless erect blackberries. I do recommend them. We don't have any problem with dear eating ours

[@doubleknott424]

Can this be used for raspberries too?

[@FarmAlarm]

Yep ☺👍

[@cmfarmranchupicwegrow3982]

Why are my thornless Blackberry foliage and Canes purple

[@FarmAlarm]

Those are the second year plant. This video will explain kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXOQm5WfidqYb68

[@Myxlplyk]

Helicopter was seeing if you were growing weed.

[@FarmAlarm]

Lol.😂

[@hremaddox]

So, I'm a lawyer and have done a fair share of cultivating marijuana cases. Blackberry patches give off the same heat signatures to the helicopters as marijuana. They also have the same sistolic hairs, etc.

[@Myxlplyk]

@@hremaddox I get them over my garden all the time. At least I used to before Michigan went legal.

[@hremaddox]

@@Myxlplyk yeah, I'm glad they were wasting their time, buzzing a blackberry patch...lol.

[@gordoncain1760]

It's the 26th

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I think he wasn’t sure when it would be published when he filmed it.

[@FarmAlarm]

I did this video in the *Future,* but I uploaded it in the *Past* with my *Time Machine*