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re: Have the blackberries come in yet?

Posted on 5/7/13 at 10:38 am to
Posted by wickowick
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 10:38 am to
How about the snozberries?
Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 10:41 am to
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How about the snozberries?
If they're anything like dingleberries, they're year-round producers. Eh Willie?
Posted by LSU 318 LSU
El Cerrito Place
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 10:49 am to
Ate a few Mulberries* the other day. Anybody ever tasted one of them?
Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 10:55 am to
I love 'em! Have 3 very old trees.

I hate 'em...cause the kids love 'em...and climb the trees to eat the heck out of mulberries, and stain their clothes.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 10:58 am to
Like, but distant third to the other two.
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:12 am to
I've picked about five pounds of DEWBERRIES this week in Prairieville LA:


My BLACKBERRIES (potted) are starting to fruit now:


Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:27 am to
quote:

I've picked about five pounds of DEWBERRIES this week in Prairieville LA:
WHAT? The SEEDS! Should have had replicas made.
Posted by JAB528
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:28 am to
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:31 am to
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WHAT? The SEEDS! Should have had replicas made.


Those ARE replicas, hater.
Posted by sloopy
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:33 am to
How the hell do you tell the difference? I thought this whole time I have been eating blackberries. I ate what I thought were blackberries behind my parents house Saturday. Sure as hell tasted like a blackberry.
Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:34 am to
I'm so jealous! I've only gotten a handful so far.

In 2 weeks, different story!
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:35 am to
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How the hell do you tell the difference? I thought this whole time I have been eating blackberries. I ate what I thought were blackberries behind my parents house Saturday. Sure as hell tasted like a blackberry.
Pretty easy really. Time of year makes it to where you really don't have to know squat about the plants. But, Dewberries are low crawlers. Blackberries make more sturdy stalks that grow upward. If you are finding them before summer, you are finding dewberries. Summer = blackberries.
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:38 am to
Dewberries have tons of small thorns.

Blackberries don't have many thorns at all. The thorns they do have are much larger than the dewberries.

Check it out for yourself:
DEW:
BLACK:


Both photos taken in Pville LA.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:47 am to
Your blackberry plant looks VERY different than the wild ones around here.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:49 am to


Posted by sloopy
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:49 am to
Son of a bitch, I thought they were all black berries. Guess you learn something new everyday.
Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
3185 posts
Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:50 am to
quote:

Dewberries have tons of small thorns.

Blackberries don't have many thorns at all. The thorns they do have are much larger than the dewberries.


I learned something today!

I've alway called them dewberries, but I suspected that "dewberry" was just an improperly-used local name for wild blackberries. Thanks W!
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:51 am to
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Your blackberry plant looks VERY different than the wild ones around here.


Not surprising. It isn't wild. Bought it from Walmarks last season.
Posted by W
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
6100 posts
Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:54 am to
Dewberry beta (from Wikipedia):

quote:

The dewberries are a group of species in the genus Rubus, section Rubus, closely related to the blackberries. They are small trailing (rather than upright or high-arching) brambles with berries reminiscent of the raspberry, but are usually purple to black instead of red. Unlike many other Rubus species, dewberries have separate male and female plants (they are dioecious)
Posted by fishfighter
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:56 am to
My blueberries should be coming in, about 3 more weeks.

Screw a blackberry. Soak them in saltwater and see a shite load of bugs that come out. Just washing them in fresh water don't cut it.

Ate many in my time.
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