PrimeArk Freedom Blackberry Cuttings Free-ish

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julie

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I have 2 sets of 6 PrimeArk Freedom Blackberry cuttings to give away. These are fantastic, large thornless blackberries that fruit on 1st and 2nd year wood giving you berries from spring until fall. Our favorite over Ouachita, Triple Crown, Natchez. All I ask is $10 for shipping.

DM if interested. I will post when they are all taken.
 
4evercurious said:
@julie do you have recommendations for rooting this variety? I received some from a fig friend recently and really want to grow them.
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I did them the same way I do the fig cuttings: coco coir/perlite soil, waxed the top, scratched bottom bark, painted a tiny bit of root hormone, in a bin with heat mat underneath and grow light. Already leafing out!
 
julie said:
@4evercurious We bought all our blackberry plants so I have not rooted blackberry cuttings. But from what I have read, they root very easily and you can treat them like fig cuttings- a little moisture, heat and time.
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Here are some of the cuttings I received from you. The thinner cuttings did root and leaf out quicker than the thicker ones. Potted Jan 3rd.
 

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Wow! This is great @Motherwise, I have only read and tried the young green cuttings with mist, with little (OK, no) luck in the past. I would have said no on a fig pop working so it goes to show how much I know.

We have had very good success layering them and propagating by root cuttings - mostly the Ouachita.
 
PapaFig said:
Wow! This is great @Motherwise, I have only read and tried the young green cuttings with mist, with little (OK, no) luck in the past. I would have said no on a fig pop working so it goes to show how much I know.

We have had very good success layering them and propagating by root cuttings - mostly the Ouachita.
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First time for cuttings. I usually just stick the end of a cane in the ground and let it start another one, haha. Totally lazy way.
 
BucksCountyFigs said:
You mean you take the top of a cane and just poke it in the ground (while the original cane stays in the ground)?
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Yes. There are lots of branches coming off the original cane. If I forget to wind them into the cattle panel, they will drop down and start rooting in the ground on their own! I like to intentionally direct one down, to place new plants along the panel, or if the vine is getting too long just sink it in the ground.
 
Tip layering is the easiest way to propagate blackberry bushes. Really all you need is one blackberry cutting to make it because they naturally want to tip layer a lot in about a year. We bought 5 PAF bushes 2 years ago and we now have 10 total from the bushes tip layering on their own and given away maybe 5 to friends and family. You have to be careful- they can often be too prolific!

To bad fig trees don't tip layer!
 
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