Blackberry Plants
Blackberries are related to raspberries; both are in the Rubus genus and produce aggregate accessory fruits, but blackberries retain their core when picked. Once regarded as thorny weeds, blackberries are now a popular cultivated fruit. We offer disease-free, dormant canes, and our selection includes varieties that can be grown successfully in northern areas.
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Blackberry Variety Selection
- Floricane: varieties produce fruit on second-year canes. The plants produce vegetative canes called “primocanes” during the first year. These canes then overwinter and harden off, becoming floricanes in their second year. The floricanes bear fruit on short lateral branches early to mid-summer of the second year, then die back.
- Primocane: varieties produce both vegetative growth and fruit on first year canes; they form fruit on the tips of the current season’s canes, typically producing from late summer into Fall until dying back from a hard frost.
- Cold hardiness: Many blackberries are not very cold-hardy, but ‘Prime Ark® Freedom’, ‘Chester’, and ‘Ponca’ can be grown in northern areas.
- Harvest window: to compare harvest windows and select varieties for an extended harvest, visit our Blackberry Planting Program.
Growing Information
For guidance on growing blackberries, we offer the following:
- Blackberries Key Growing Information: a simple overview of essential growing information.
- Blackberry Production Tech Sheet: an in-depth growing guide including planting, trellising, and pruning.
- Bramble Pests & Diseases Tech Sheet: an overview of common pests and diseases and their recommended control and prevention methods.