Old 04-07-2013, 07:36 PM
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Default Anybody growing blackberries - the trailing or semi-trailing kind?

Year before last I bought three itty-bitty blackberry plants. I think the variety is "Triple Crown". Last year was the first year of real growth on them, with canes that are at least 6' long. Over the winter they bent down to the ground, and now I find that the tips have rooted there.

Can I cut those tips, leaving a few inches of "stub" (with a couple of leaf buds) and transport those babies? They're kind of all over the place, and I can only imagine the thicket that will be there next year if I don't impose some order on the patch now.

I've grown erect blackberries before, but not the trailing kind, so this growth habit is new to me.
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