Healthy blackberry bush not flowering

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• bertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697

  June 2023

  Planted last year...still young and then we have had no rain for so long (well we haven't).

  It needs water as it is so young. I wouldn't expect it to produce fruit so early.
  

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• jazexpress43sMxwMe Posts: 19

  June 2023

  Ok. Yes. I guess its young. Have watered everyday… during this spell.  Guess plant is healthy as the branch shoots are thick and well formed, so bodes well for future.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2023

  Blackberries flower on this year’s wood so if those stalks were there last year they won’t  flower on those.
  
  

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  June 2023

  
  

  
  I grow Waldo which produces a huge yield each year.
  The canes that bear berries form the previous year and produce berries the following year.
  
  You can see the flowers on the canes that will produce this year's berries in a few weeks.
  The canes that are forming this year you can see growing outward from the plant and over the fish pond.
  Once fruiting is over for this year, which will be by early August. I remove all the canes that have produced berries (so all the canes on the fence) and I'll tie the new canes onto the wires along the fence.
  
  
  

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• thevictorian Posts: 1,279

  June 2023

  Lyn said:

  Blackberries flower on this year’s wood so if those stalks were there last year they won’t  flower on those.
  
  

  
  Normal blackberries fruit on the growth from the previous season, so fruits only on the canes that grew the year previous. This year's growth will produce berries next year and any fruiting canes this summer won't have fruit next year and are so best removed.
  I think with the addition of more hybrid berries that things have changed a little but normal blackberries are like summer fruiting raspberries and need the canes to mature for a season first. 

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