r/Berries

I've picked some Aronia berries today :) Cultivar Nero.

I'm not sure if they are fully ripe (they never taste good raw!), but they seem to be fully black.

My standard use for them is apple juice - mix 2-3 handfuls with cut apples in a juicing pot.

Picked these yesterday.

I planted some Prime Ark Freedoms last year and these things are crazy. I have 7 of the prime ark freedom plants so far and they're going wild this year. The fruit on old and new growth, flori and primo cane is insane. I'll have a ton berries for the entire summer and fall whenever I get my 200' row of them finished over the next year or two. I'll have 100 prime ark freedom plants, 100 triple crown, 100 ponca and 100 sweetie pie. It's going to be nuts and these prime arks get huge! A very good tasting berry too.

The last photo was at the start of the year and they've grown like crazy since then!

Hello,

You've might've seen my post from a weeks ago asking if blackberries dropped flowers in the heat. I kept the plant well watered and even added a bit of fertilizer to help the bush set fruits. But, every single flower so far has dropped without turning into berries. 😭 My only suspects is pest pressure, or poor pollination. I don't know what the exact problem is so I was hoping that you all have some insight. The only pest I've seen are the invasive Japanese beetles on the flowers, but in my experience they only eat the petals, and they leave distinctive damage on the leaves which I'm not seeing here. Pollination shouldn't be an issue, I have a lot of other flowers (sunflowers, zinnias, nasturtiums, etc.) all over my veggie garden which has attracted a load of bees!

I'm on the border of zones 5 and 6.

Delicate. Like a mushy raspberry. Not as tart but much sweeter when ripe. Picked in New England.

I’m assuming these are elderberries, but I’d like confirmation before I process them and they turn out to be poisonous.

When i bought the plant it already had this. This is an Fragaria x Ananas - Mara Des Bois. But what in the name is this? An aircrown? Air roots? I can’t place it. Hopefully somebody knows!

Found in Moraga, CA. We have two young children and I'm wondering if they are poisonous.

As the title implies, I ordered a bunch of red and white Currant seeds on Etsy. In hindsight, I'm shaking my head (and laughing at myself) for making a seed purchase on Etsy, but the store reviews were decent and Currant seeds were surprisingly difficult to find.

Most of the seeds did not germinate but a handful did. Here are images of what is growing this far, about 3.5 months after germination:

https://i.imgur.com/avQeUvA.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/3K8goL9.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/mcHETeZ.jpeg

Ignore the white diatomaceous earth powder in some of the photos.

The largest "berries" are currently 1cm in diameter.

My concern is that the shape of the leaves doesn't match what I'm seeing online when looking up Currant leaves.

The yellow berry is also confusing, but that should be in a red plant.. So maybe they turn yellow before red?

As someone who is drowning in tomatoes, these plants seem to closely resemble tomato plants, with the only difference being that they're very low to the ground at this point in their life, whereas every tomato variety that I've ever grown tries to sprout upward at least a foot before attempting to produce fruit.

Is there any remote possibility that these are Currants, and if not, can anyone speculate as to what they might be?

Edit: Thank you all for the kind and thoughtful comments. I think the verdict is that I'm growing "Currant Tomatoes", which is kind of ironic and funny.

I appreciate the responses!

We grow raspberries in our garden and every year about this time of year the new canes push out fruit. if I let them successfully fruit will they produce fruit next summer as well? I have typically cut them off to be sure I get my summer raspberry haul.

My honeyberry has started getting a lot of dark purple/brown discoloration on the leaves and I’m not sure what’s causing it. Some of the lower and inner leaves are still green, but a lot of the outer leaves look pretty rough.

It’s planted in the ground in Zone 7b, Delaware. It gets full sun from the morning until around 4 PM, then shade for the rest of the day. It has also been really hot lately. I’ve been keeping up with watering, so I’m wondering if this could be heat/sun stress, a disease, or pests.

Has anyone seen this before or know what might be causing it?

I have never seen or heard about this before, but when i saw this it felt like seeing a four-leaf clover. What does this mean? Is this unique? Anyone else saw this before