r/Berries

Couple different varieties. I have a wild bush, i have a pixwell and a hinnonaki (probably spelled that wrong) red.

I know the berries in the picture are not ready for picking, but I did find a few properly black ones. And the taste is still nothing special? The berries are quite dry and seedy.

They are magnets for flies! Last year I didn't get to eat any berries, they were literally covered in flies of all sizes. This year I'm trying them as soon as they turn fully black, before the flies find them.

Are they not ready when black? Do I have to wait X more days after they develop the final color?

Bristol is often described as the best Occidentalis, so I'm a little disappointed..

It's also crazy thorny and the new canes are prone to falling over and breaking off at the base. Something that is not designed to grow upright should not be so brittle.

3rd summer with these girls and they are starting to pack on the berries.

Southeast US, growing in tiny spot in our front yard, not sure what they are if anyone can help!!

Zone 6a, these are my blueberry bush and my raspberry bushes. Both are planted in the ground. Please help me identify and stop this, thank you!

The heat has the berries ripening early and fast this year. I’ll probably get at least a half pint of red and black raspberries per day for the next little while.

Hey community asking for a little support here please. I will visit my grandparents in law garden planning to "steal" raspberry that they have. We have a few plants ourselves but we'd love more,

What is the best way about propogating new plants in pots, the garden I will raid is very wild and overgrown, there is no structure or order so I'm asking what kind of cuttings/ sucker is best method. I would prefer to take primo canes, searching for suckers could be painful and tedious.

What size pot, or mulch medium if any should I use thanks, ??

Also, aphids don't matter on an established perennial plant. I've never sprayed anything on this bush, many leaves are ugly, and there's lots of action under them - aphids are an important food source for so many insects and spiders.

Fruit set was interesting this year, most clusters are only half full, missing the smaller berries. But the fruit load is impressive regardless.

This is my 3rd harvest and I finally have enough to do something with them.

Any idea what these berries are?

For context: our home was built in 2002. The plant producing these berries was part of the original landscaping. Over 2 decades ago, my wife transplanted it to our backyard so that the deer would stop attacking it. This year it started flowering for the first time ever, and then produced these berries.

I planted them last year but the deer decimated them and the rest of the garden. They've recovered and are fruiting this year but they're very sad. The heat wave has not been kind to them but they didn't look great before, either. They're in grow bags because I don't want them to become enormous and spread everywhere, but the soil has stayed moist and they've been given fertilizer. What could be up with these guys?

Fresh berries on homemade poundcake. This is why I grow berries.

Any ideas? In a yard in Vancouver BC. I don’t remember seeing any before with leaves just like that. Thanks!

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I've bought two black raspberries.

One was labeled as plain Occidentalis.

And one was labeled as black Idaeus, named "Megan".

I'm 99.9% sure Megan is also Occidentalis, though, because it's nothing like Idaeus. Both plants are far more similar to each other than any Idaeus I've ever seen, including in taste.

But I accidentally lost the labels and forgot which one is which. But I like to know which plant is which, so could anyone have an idea which might be the Megan one?

One had a lot fewer berries (but maybe it will make more later? idk), they are in smaller clusters, way fewer clusters, but the berries are a bit bigger. If I had to guess, I would think this is the Megan one, because a named cultivar might be more likely to have bigger berries. And it's ripening a bit later than the other one, I've harvested the other one today, but not this one yet. Also, most plain Occidentalis photos I see have a lot of smaller berries like the other one.

Here are some photos of both plants. I've labeled which one I suspect is the plain Occidentalis and which I suspect is the Megan.

Edit: The "unnamed Occidentalis" is acaaully named "Black Jewel", i just forgot it had a name too. Still don't know which is Megan and which is Black Jewel though.

Hi all! Recently purchased a property with these out back, and I’m currently thinking I have raspberries and strawberries. Can anyone confirm? I’m also entirely unsure of the health and am thinking the strawberries (?) are looking rough. Thoughts?