When to transplant black berries??

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We have a lot of wild berry bushes in some fence lines, but I'd like to start a blackberry patch. When is a good time to transplant and should I cut them back any? Will they produce this coming summer? Help, I'm a newby on this topic!!! (I live in Missouri) :D
 
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We have a lot of wild berry bushes in some fence lines, but I'd like to start a blackberry patch. When is a good time to transplant and should I cut them back any? Will they produce this coming summer? Help, I'm a newby on this topic!!! (I live in Missouri) :D
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You can transplant them right now or any time this winter, and yes you will want to prune them back heavily. Rather than use wild black berries I would take a look at some of the tame thornless varieties. My grandfather raised these for years and the yield will be much better and many of them produce much bigger berries.
 
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show time":2iw3sose said:
We have a lot of wild berry bushes in some fence lines, but I'd like to start a blackberry patch. When is a good time to transplant and should I cut them back any? Will they produce this coming summer? Help, I'm a newby on this topic!!! (I live in Missouri) :D
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You can transplant them right now or any time this winter, and yes you will want to prune them back heavily. Rather than use wild black berries I would take a look at some of the tame thornless varieties. My grandfather raised these for years and the yield will be much better and many of them produce much bigger berries.
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Ditto what Trey said. Now is a good time to transplant them. Water them in good and mulch them. Depending on your cultural practices they can produce the first year if you select good canes. I transplanted some in June but they were irrigated. Will be doing some more here shortly. Like Trey suggested, the thornless hybrids are worth the trouble. Here is a pic of some. If you go with the hybrids, you need to think of them as climbing roses and its best to build a trellis system for them. This can be done easily by concreting down some corner posts at the ends of your rows then putting some metal wire guides on these posts to run the support wires through. You mant to create a V with the wires. Don't cost much if you are only doing a few but it is well worth the extra effort.

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Don't think for a second she don't know what blackberry pie tastes like with a dollup of vanilla ice cream. ;-) :lol2:
 
show time":2qs5ennt said:
We have a lot of wild berry bushes in some fence lines, but I'd like to start a blackberry patch. When is a good time to transplant and should I cut them back any? Will they produce this coming summer? Help, I'm a newby on this topic!!! (I live in Missouri) :D
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I do not like the thornless as well as the ones with thorns, at least they have not worked for me. I lost one row of the thornless to some kind of virius, Also the canes break at ground level on the ones that I have. One thing you will need to do is remove the canes or vines that produced this year and leave the new ones that have grown this year. Canes that grew this year with no berries will make berries next year. The old cane will never make nothing. Keep the canes pruned at a height you like and they will branch out more. Also keep each cane branched pruned to about a foot or so as the grow. There is one blackberry that produces very well , the variety is the Brazos.
Check this site for berry vines:
http://www.tytyga.com/category/Blackberry+Bushes
 

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