Wild raspberry and blackberry
Found some wild berries blooming on my property. I believe them to be raspberry and a blackberry. Would love to know how I would propagate it.
Can I just take a clipping and use rooting hormone?
Posted Apr 18, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC
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Blackberry, aggressively wish it death and it will flourish no matter how poorly you treat it.
You can bury a cane partially and find it has grown roots within weeks. Take some 6" cuttings, throw it in a moist compost pile, and you'll have a blackberry bramble in no time flat!
Or just pluck a sucker out of the ground and plop it in your pot.
Seriously tho, just get a decent chunk of leafy plant and slam it in a pot with zero drainage holes and keep moist for a few weeks. Shit is invasive as hell and will survive almost anything but dehydration for the first few months, and then not even that will kill it. No drainage holes unless you want a blackberry patch to form. I've heard even the roots propagate, but I haven't noticed it and the cuttings do quite well in their own.
Been digging roots out of my garden for two+ years now, easy to hide a blackberry infestation if you crop the sprouts real low before potential buyers come by :/
Wow, such hardy lil buggers! Great to know. Thank you :)