We love our prime-Ark freedoms and travelers! Yours are beautiful. Cheers from Arizona zone 9B. 😎
@eardw2251
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I have never had the success with any plant that I am having with these PAF’s. Believe it or not, I picked about a gallon yesterday for cobbler. April 9th! The wild ones are just coming into bloom now.
@AmzBackyardOrchardandVineyard
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@@eardw2251 keep us updated this growing season will ya?!
@ToddBossaller
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Looks outstanding, Earl. Great work on this. Your row looks really nice too. I have PAF as well as six other varieties here in Missouri but my best performers have been Natchez. Buds have formed here and I am just starting to see white, so shouldn't be long. Thanks for the update and keep us posted on progress.
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Todd, the berries are starting to ramp-up now; picked another 6-1/2 pounds today. I had three other varieties planted a few years ago; Natchez, Ouchita and Navaho? They must not of liked the dirt where I planted the cause they never get more than 3 feet tall with hardly any fruit. May make some clones this year and see if they do better somewhere else.
@CraftEccentricity
Жыл бұрын
Fabulous!
@eddieh9525
Жыл бұрын
My goodness Earl, very impressive.
@eardw2251
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I’ve never seen anything like this Eddie. The closest I’ve seen are the big-ole Himalayan berries in the Pacific Northwest but this is a more intense bloom.
@eddieh9525
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@@eardw2251 Anything in particular you attribute this to? Mine are nowhere like this.
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
@@eddieh9525 I wish I could say Eddie. The one thing it could be is the drip irrigation. I figured out that 1” of rain lasts 4 days before drying out at 9” soil depth, which means I need to run the water about 7 hours every 4 days to stay moist. With this heavy fruit-load I’ve upped the water to 4 hours every-other day.
@eddieh9525
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@@eardw2251 I think that may be my problem, not near enough water. How often do you fertilize?
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
@@eddieh9525 when I started the bed for some tomatoes the year before I worked in about a yard of homemade compost. I worked in another yard before planting the blackberries. I also added a couple more inches this winter between the plants. I sprinkled some calcium nitrate in April or May last year, maybe half-pound for the 400Ft2 bed. Yesterday I fed them 250 gm of Urea through the drip system. I’m gonna see how it reacts, and if favorable the plan is to feed them 250 gm each month over the next 5 months.
@everydaydad2618
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing these video updates. I'm about a year behind you and am hoping that my blackberry patch has the same results you have been able to obtain!
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure. I just started regular picking for this season and picked 2-1/2 pounds about 20 minutes ago. Figure another month before my wife gets tired of eating them☺. Good luck to you and if you learn something, please let me know!
@clarkwheeler8764
Жыл бұрын
My PAF vines are just starting to break bud here in W. Kentucky. Also have Ponca, Ouachita, Osage. Looks like all varieties made it through the winter. Looking forward to some blooms and berries.
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
How long have you had the PAF’s in the ground? I’m very curious to see what 2nd year primocanes look like.
@clarkwheeler8764
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Just got mine planted last spring so just starting to take hold. I’m eager to see if I’ll get something this year on the few canes that grew last year. Fingers crossed!!
@danebelarmino4809
Жыл бұрын
No, you are not wasting our time.
@afrocraft1
Жыл бұрын
I wonder: What's the production per plant? I envy you, but we only have space for 4 plants!
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
I’ll let you know in a couple of months😁. This is their first floricane crop.
@JPot-nb1bc
Жыл бұрын
amazing plants brother, i have one myself too. I am in zone 9a jacksonville fl. Do you happen to face orange rust on your prime ark freedom ?
@eardw2251
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I have seen some evidence but it hasn’t seemed to affect the plants much.
@JPot-nb1bc
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@@eardw2251 i was worried and had to cut out one stem full of green blackberries and burnt it because i read that it was a severe fungal disease and would spread throughout the whole garden. there is no cure apparently and they advised to remove the whole plant and either discard or burn it. I have a black satin and a navaho growing next to it on a trellis
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
@@JPot-nb1bc my apologies, I looked up Orange Rust and that is not what I am seeing on my plants. The issues I see are limited to older leaves that crinkle up and die, like one would see in the fall.
@animalnoiselabs7114
Жыл бұрын
Greetings Earl do you keep track of your chill hours? I'm in Putnam County about 100 miles South East of you, and I just planted a PAF plug, along with some Kiowa, Natchez and Ponca bare roots. We got about 275 chill hours this past winter and I'm wondering if that is enough for the PAFs and Poncas. thanx --Phil
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
That is the $64,000 question. I got around 550 hours where I am last year but didn’t lose all of the leaves. I know there were a couple of comments from folks near Tampa and Ocala but I haven’t heard how they are doing. The guy who developed the Prime-Ark series, Dr. John Clark, seemed very interested in how these plants were doing down south as they were targeted at the Arkansas market which as a lot cooler than either of our locations. I really don’t know, but I’m running on the premise that if wild berries will grow then PAF’s will grow and the wild ones are EVERYWHERE around here..
@daddio7249
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I am about 30 miles from you, in two years my blackberries have grown zero, same size as when I planted them. ???
@eardw2251
Жыл бұрын
Do you know what your soil pH is? I have three acres, two which have a pH of about 5.7, but where the blackberries are growing it’s about 6.7. I had put some lime down and a couple of yards of compost two years before planting and was growing tomatoes there. I also believe these PAF’s to be pretty shallow rooted so drip irrigation really helps. If your sand is like my sand, it dries out real quick in the first 9” of soil depth.
@daddio7249
Жыл бұрын
@@eardw2251 Land I cleared next to my woods and very sandy. I thought blackberries needed the same pH as blueberries, guess I was wrong. Lime and more water, got it. Old potato farmer, those I can grow.
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