On 2010-08-06, Bob Hobden wrote:
Doing some research and came across this article.
Looks like we will soon have blackberries (non-GM too) that crop twice a
year.

http://arkansasagnews.uark.edu/4719.htm


I'm a bit confused, at that site it says...

"Most blackberry plants produce fruit in early summer on floricanes, canes
that don't begin bearing fruit until their second year. In addition,
primocane-fruiting blackberries produce fruit in late summer to early fall
on primocanes, or first-year canes, Clark said."

That sounds like a description of raspberry to me. European Blackberry
tends to fruit from now onwards depending on variety.

Isn't the american "blackberry" a kind of "raspberry"?[1]

Jim

[1] I understand the difference to be whether the fruit comes of the hull
(raspberry) or not (blackberry). I've grown black raspberry (from seed),
but not successfully, they were very, very disease prone.