Bought a small plant from wal mart. After two years it's only 3 ft. Tall.
Hasn't bloomed yet, even. It looks like a weedy thin...Read Moreg, can't believe it's a real quality named blackberry and it DOES have thorns. Planted next to
It is a real thornless unknown variety that has produced fruit every year.
I would not advise buying any blackberry from wal mart. You may get a weed. If this plant doesn't do something this third year, it's going on the
Burn pile.
I bought an Ebony King blackberry plant in 2006, and it was not very productive until a horticulturist advised to lay the canes on the gr...Read Moreound for the winter and cover them completely, which I did. (I am located in Prince Edward Island, Canada, which is a hardiness zone 5). Result: an AMAZING amount of fruit the following year! More than 2,000 on one plant, and if it were not for an early frost, I would have gotten hundreds more! I have photos to show for this. My plant is entirely thornless and the canes grow up to 8 feet high and need support.
Ebony King is an older variety of blackberry. I've seen them described as mostly thornless. There are fewer and smaller thorns, compare...Read Mored to wild blackberries, but thorns are still plentiful and sharp. The plants have not had diseases or insect problems in my yard. There are many other, modern varieties of blackberry with larger berries that are just as juicy and sweet, but without thorns. They need a trellis to support the canes, otherwise they sprawl and it is more difficult to harvest the blackberries.
Bought a small plant from wal mart. After two years it's only 3 ft. Tall.
Hasn't bloomed yet, even. It looks like a weedy thin...Read More
I bought an Ebony King blackberry plant in 2006, and it was not very productive until a horticulturist advised to lay the canes on the gr...Read More
Ebony King is an older variety of blackberry. I've seen them described as mostly thornless. There are fewer and smaller thorns, compare...Read More