Thornless Blackberry: Huge Fruit (& how to prune brambles)

Thornless blackberry plants can bear exceptionally large fruit. I compare them here to wild-picked berries, and they're so much larger. Please note that I haven't given my garden blackberry bush any advantage with fertilizer or extra watering. It's growing in the same conditions as those across the fence. In this video I'll show you how to prune blackberries, raspberries, and once-flowering rambling roses that bloom and bear fruit on 2nd year ripened wood.

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[henrysangmaster]

Great! I need to plant some "prickle-less" blackberries

[portiaholliday]

I have thornless BabyCake Blackberries and they grow well but my BabyCake raspberries kicked the bucket! I just planted Sunn Hemp all over my front garden. It is a legume. D'accord I will prune after I eat the fruit. Got it! I need to espalier Jasmina and Amadeus. Oh! Wonderful we're gonna propagate our blackberries! I'm looking forward to this video!

[vladimpaler]

I just ordered a prickless blackberry bush, I have plenty of pricky ones! 😆

[molyjohn]

thank you very much iam in texas .here the rain is common.ofcourse we pluck when it is fully black or ripe .sunlight is there. let me try in next season .

[sharoncourt]

Thank you! I plant raspberries and dint prune them for3 year's cause I was afraid not knowing how, now I reduce the size by half

[izzywatashi]

Bought a thornless blackberrry 2 years ago from our local farm store. After having to transplant the bush early last spring because of a poor location choice I was surprise to get a handsome crop of berries that I continued picking until late October. . . At 1000m el. that is an accomplishment. I have the bushed planted on the mostly sunny side of the back of my greenhouse frame - using the frame as a trellis; also the nearby wooden fence offers radiant heating for the bush. Hoping the bush will partially shade the garden from the solar damage which is a problem at 1000m.

[dastamericus]

Thank you. I just got some of these from a neighbor.

[jassteers]

Hello, I just bought my first "Thornless Blackberry" bush in October. I planted it in a large pot with a trellis for it to climb. It is just a small plant at the moment (about 2-1/2 foot). Should I bother pruning it b4 the spring or let it grow? Thanks :D

[robertmccaffrey]

Thanks for your video. I live in Upstate NY on shores of Lake Ontario. I have planted some thornless blackberries and this is year 2. between fall and now I had a strange thing happen. Some of the canes have taken their tips and “grounded themselves” and taken root. When I was pruning I wondered should I cull these canes completely or snip in the middle sink double the plants? This should be the year to get solid fruit sink don’t want to mess it up with overzealous or misguided pruning.

[therapywithisabel]

I'm so confused. I have three varieties that over-wintered. I cut out the vines that didn't look right, but given its spring the old canes with brown on the leaves, now have bright new green leaves growing over them. If I cut it all back, I'll have nothing. Should I just pull off the old green leaves so it looks like a brand new shoot?

[nihatsavmaz]

In Germany are the thornless blackberries titles as “American Blackberries”! 15.7.24

[A-Sidhu]

will these thornless blackberry bushes also make a decent privacy hedge? How fast will they grow and fill in compared to a cedar or laurel hedge? Thanks.

[keithsage]

How long should the bushes live and should they be be replanted after a few years growth?

[molyjohn]

thank you all for your reply and response.

[tudorpottudorpot]

Jason, thanks for your great videos. Next month I will be planting Triple Crown blackberries. Should I set up a trellis/fence similar to yours or can they grow freestanding?

[molyjohn]

will you please answer me?my black berries are big but very very sour .what can i do to make it sweet ?plzzz tell me any remedy .

[wingnox]

I am attempting to grow thornless blackberries in my food forest located in central Florida. However after having them for a year all of my bushes are stems and very few leafs at the end of the vines. Not sure what I am doing wrong or what I should be doing. Some stems have died back from what I took as planting or possible lack of nutrients. Is fertilisation something that's key?

[rahiarman]

brother i want to know from you can we succeed in air layering of a grafted any grafted tree like mango, orange, if we do Air layering on them will it root

[glory_gate]

i have same thronless Blackberries but they produce sour berry !. Q: I read from the East that apply small salt solution by watering will help to sweeten the sour taste!? How truthful is that ?

[evazacharias]

I had a blackberry plant here in Manitoba, but it would freeze to the ground so I didn’t get much berries. I didn’t have a name for it, I dug it out.
Would you blackberry survive in a 3 zone?