Triple Crown Blackberry Problem
harlan
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Comments (17)I'm in zone 8a around Montgomery AL and I tried growing TC a few years ago. The problem we found with them was they started to ripen around the end of June just as the 90 degree heat and humidity starts to show up. Now, we have no afternoon shade and they just seemed to cook in the sun without ever really cooling off at night. We might have had a different success if we had afternoon shade and cooler evenings. However, after 3 years of trying, we finally replaced them with Navaho, Arapaho and Natchez and have been very pleased with their result in the same location. But, again, we're in central Alabama where heat and humidity rule in the summer....See MoreTriple Crown Blackberries - trellising and care
Comments (28)Hi. Not sure if this thread is still active, but it's been very helpful to read all of the advice/comments. We have a few questions that we are still looking for feedback on. We live in central MN and planted Triple Crowns and Arapahos 3 years ago. Last summer was our first big crop and we had a great yield. We cut back all of the floricanes last fall. This summer we had basically no berries (a couple random clusters - maybe 12 berries total). It was a huge disappointment, but mostly we were just confused about what we could have done wrong. We did have a difficult winter, so maybe that contributed? Plants were slow to grow, at one point we thought they had died. Eventually they took off growing again - just no fruit. Now, it is October. We are left with tons of green growth - canes up to 20 ft long. We are hesitant to prune anything and risk another season with little to no fruit. We are also unsure of when/how to prune/head back the primocanes. In the past, we just let them grow and wove them into our trellis system. We would like to try keeping them more under control and encourage more lateral growth. Should we still get some pruning in this fall? Is it ok to cut a 20 ft cane back to 6 ft (or does that "heading off" need to be done throughout the summer)? Any advice is welcome and appreciated! Thanks...See MoreTriple crown blackberry flavor vs wild blackberries
Comments (2)I have Triple Crown, Apache and Navaho and the TC makes the most perfect berries and they are earlier than all the others but they are not very sweet. They aren't bland, just kinda sour. They work well when cooking (when you add sugar to them). The Navaho has the best eat-it-in-the-field flavor and the berries are very large - but they always have some voids on them (poor pollination) and often some botrytis too....See MoreIdentifying Triple Crown Blackberry
Comments (0)I ordered 3 Triple Crown Blackberry plants this spring from a "just started" company on the web. When they arrived they had a extensive root system and were about 10-12" high and lots of leaves. Problem: the leaves appeared smooth - not with the slight fuzzy texture my other types have. After planting we had a couple of good frosts and they seemed to die, but I am hoping they come back. I was wondering if the smooth leaves are normal with young Triple Crown, or, they could have been grown quckly in a green house condition and were very tender -accounting for the reaction to the frost, or??? I could have gotten taken and the guy sent me 3 weeds?????...See Morefruitgirl
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