Blackberry help?

So, I’m new here - but I’m really at a loss on what to do with my blackberry plant.

This is my first blackberry plant and I’m just not knowledgeable on how to amend this baby and if it’s possible.

But from what I’ve been researching I’m wondering if my lil’ blackberry does have cane blight...
It was watered daily for a week and a half (before it was read up and found to water 2-3 times a week)

Please and thank you for any help provided!

Welcome to permies!

Hopefully, someone with more experience in berries will be able to help.

From your picture, the plant doesn’t look bad. Are you worried about the leaf that looks yellow-ish?

If it’s only that one, maybe remove it and see what happens?

I also don't have a lot of experience with blackberries, but generally speaking that plant looks fairly normal and healthy to me.

Just to get some more information - It looks like you planted it in a large pot? What climate are you in?

Your plant looks okay.

It needs a lot of loose soil space not an ideal bucket plant.

Blackberries do two types of runs.

Underround they send off runners a bit like bermuda grass. These runners produce fruit too.

Above ground they send off long shoots that get o heavy they bend over, then thode attach to the ground and root a little like strawberries(which you can expidite by shoveling dirt on top of them.

Last year's growth is the part that flowers THIS year.

And that's where you get the fruit from.

It's a great plant because you only need one to make a really fruitful harvest.

But you need to plant it and let t run. Next year you will have four.

LOL

If you stick a shovel into the ground and break them apart.

More if this one leans over and you bury that part.

Lew Johnson wrote:I also don't have a lot of experience with blackberries, but generally speaking that plant looks fairly normal and healthy to me.

Just to get some more information - It looks like you planted it in a large pot? What climate are you in?

I’m in Florida, so zone 9 & 10, I also have a florida thornless variety of blackberry - so they are fairly hardy.

I didn’t post a very good pic before - my concern is the green stem is going brown and the leaves are going brittle and brown as well.

As a note the blackberry has only been in the pot for about 2 weeks.

Correction:

I actually have new shoots "like Bermuda grass" making flowers this year.

And berries.(I heard on a Master Gardener show that only last years growth makes berries, that's debunked)

Also we had a record cold snap this year and it didn't kill off my blackberries.

No need for a bucket.

Put it in the ground or you will never have enough to make a cobbler.

LOL.

These are the thorny ones from up north with the big berries.

The thornless ones might need to be coddled.

Native Okie blavkberries grow near waterways, and are thorny and they make little berries.

I planted four different cultivars in my garden years ago, ones that make BIG blackberries, and I wish I had kept track of the cultivar names.

I lost three of them.

The one that made it is very Oklahoma fit. It grew runners, so I moved some and they grew runners so now I have lots of plants...

I'll try to figure it out(which cultivar that is) by going back to the nursery where I bought it.

And report back.

I may have killed the other three by over-mulching them.

But the one that survived is very fruity and growey. And when the big shoor leans over and you bury it, you get a FREE ONE! It roots! Just wait then chop the parent from the clone....


LOL

I'm oculltifying bermuda round my yard perimeter to move the shoots to,,,

For a Four Story garden.

1st story is muscadine grapes along the chainlink  fence

Coffer dam. wall...1st layer is muscadines and honeysuckles....

Then Blackberries

Under the blackberries, strawberries and Illinois bundleflowers....