How To Prune BLACKBERRIES For Better Harvests

Pune blackberries to increase your harvests!

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[OakKnobFarm]

Blackberries are great! I have a patch semi-erect berries in the corner of my backyard that was here when we moved in. I've ignored it for a few years, but I'm now preparing to clean up the patch, prune, and expand it next summer. This video will be very useful, thank you

[SuperDutyXL]

Good job of communicating this info, and breaking it down to the basics. I think I finally understand what the heck I am supposed to do and when! I love blackberries and hope to be growing a ton of them soon.

[debrakasadine]

Oh my gosh!! With the empowering knowledge you provided me with in this video..I bravely pruned my Navajo thornless berries!! I did watch this video 3 times to get it all! Thank you James and Tuck!!! I am empowered!!!

[michellesfinebeadedart]

I planted my first blackberries and I’m so excited. 🎉

[samuelmjlfjell]

I am second Liliya I will get black berries thanks James Prigioni and Tuck King of the Hill. go team grow. Growing your own food is like printing money.

[joojiebee]

Thanks for the tips on pruning the fruiting laterals of the floricane. It looks like you were right on time pruning the dead floricanes immediately after the plant has exhausted all nutrients in the cane and begins to show dead laterals, rather than in the following spring.

@6:40 You might consider using a taller, Y-shaped trellis system to support more fruit. This could also enable a more versatile canopy management system.

I'm a little cloudy on cane selection. When do you think it is best to select canes?

The shock-and-blur ending may have my short term memory, but most of the points it in OK.

[drive-byguitarlessons]

Thank you, James. Great info. I've been doing it all wrong. I have been cutting mine back like perennial. Live and learn.

[jackbodenmann]

Hi James
I must say you have a way of explaining things in straightforward uncomplicated manner that I can understand. I have watched several videos about pruning berries and they mainly confused me. After watching this video I can't wait to get out in the orchard and prune my berry vines. By the way, I have watched many of your videos and have found them all to be very helpful.
Jack

[elizabethcain]

Thank you, James! You are my favorite young gardener ~wise and knowledgeable beyond your years!

[SkotColacicco]

@11:11 that comment about extending the edge is what keeps me so excited about my dynamic and changing food forest. I've always seen it as slow motion ripples in a pond with plants. Thank you so much, James for what you do. Your work is fun, funny, and inspiring. You are part of the solution, helping teach the world how to grow food again!

[JohnDoe_]

Nice pruning, I have a black satin variety that has grown to an absolute beast. I definitely recommend black satin because unlike others it stays compact in one spot and after years has not spread sending out runner shoots feet away from it's main base so it's much easier to manage.

[-leo]

Really like that you are posting more videos again. Have you already started looking into new seeds/plants for the next year, can you show us your process?

[ghhehxusjsush]

Thanks James! Put blackberries in this summer and wasn't exactly sure how to prune them. Thank you!

[nickhammersonrocks]

WE HAD A BLACK BEAR RUN THROUGH OUR GARDEN ONE BUT WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GROW

[truetexan]

I feel like I’m always so intrigued by how much information there is about gardening, pruning, and taking care of different plants/fruits/veggies! It’s always easy stuff but you definitely need to know what you’re doing if you want to get bigger harvests 🥳🥳

[JTLEE-zdig]

Thanks for the instruction - This spring we transplanted several shoots from a friend's older blackberry vines, from which they also shared several gallons of berries we picked after they had all they wanted. We now have 7-8 good plants with this year's growth spreading. Have begun to set a 4 x 16 ft. fence panel to spread these vines on - for years of good berries in my own yard.

[oceanluv]

just wanted to let you know I followed your advise last fall, and now have a bumper crop of blossoms and baby berries. thanks.

[CarlaJanene]

Just moved into a house with a blackberry bush in the backyard! Thanks for the great info! And the Avett Brothers, Bella Donna in the background! :)

[browntownorganics]

I planted 2 throned blackberries last spring. They grew pretty big and got some huge berries from them. I’ll need leather gloves to prune them.

[that_auntceleste]

James, thank you so much! When I plunked in these blackberries in a year and a half ago, I did not give enough thought to their location and training.

This video provided the exact information I needed to go out there and address this situation today! I even took step by step notes to follow. You are a treasure! ❤