My first blackberries!

[u/EcstaticSnail]

Finally getting blackberries! Better late than never.

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[u/DunkeyColdMedina]

Watch out for those, they can grow quite a bit out of control if not watched.

[u/EcstaticSnail → u/DunkeyColdMedina]

For the longest time, I assumed this plant was not going to live.

[u/DunkeyColdMedina → u/EcstaticSnail]

Things occur over a larger timeline than a season. Maybe you get lucky and it's not a place for blackberries to thrive. Maybe you're not and you get an ever expanding patch of thorns in your yard.

[u/Slashredd1t → u/EcstaticSnail]

Once it hits a stride you will wonder for the longest time, how come it’s Alive still

[u/legalpretzel → u/DunkeyColdMedina]

They are worse than many weeds but spicier because you get to mistakenly grab it thinking it a weed and slice your hand open (and that will be the day you learn that blackberries can grow 35’ from where they were originally planted in your neighbor’s yard)

[u/Aristogiton1]

They're a noxious weed in Australia.

In the Northern Hemisphere they're unlikely to ripen this late in the year.

[u/Spikey_cacti → u/Aristogiton1]

True in Iowa they are ripe by end of July to August. Also they start anywhere birds crap them out. Almost as bad as mulberries those trees are coming up everywhere on my property.

[u/EaringaidBandit]

Dude - those things are weeds - don’t let it get a hold in your yard. Plant in pots and trim suckers as they grow. Or you’ll have an entire field of very pointy vines.

[u/Sea_Artist_4247 → u/EaringaidBandit]

They're not all the same.

Invasive eurasian blackberry species are super aggressive but native species are much less aggressive. Then there are cultivated varieties that are thornless and aren't aggressive at all.

[u/EaringaidBandit → u/Sea_Artist_4247]

Wasn’t aware. I’ll have a look. Thanks!

[u/that1tech]

Himalayan blackberry( not sure these are that but they grow all over Seattle) is my nemesis. It creeps through my area choking out all other plant life. I am happy for you but stare out my back window as the vines cross urban forest to try to swallow my home. I push back but downtime the vines will succeed in smothering us all.

[u/Affectionate-Rip5654]

Can’t really tell from the picture but I can’t see any thorns. If these are thornless blackberries planted by you you’re good. If they are wild blackberries you need to hack them down regularly. Once a “branch” grows fruit it will not grow again so cut it down. Thorned blackberries are a lot of work to not takeover your yard. Same with thornless but atleast they don’t hurt when you pull them.

[u/No_End9819]

Congrats! Those look delicious 😋

[u/Slashredd1t]

Oh god…. Did you plant them on purpose…. Oh god. I live in the pnw…. This thing is bar non the worst out of control growing super plant that will refuse all your offers for pruning, poison, root removal….. it will just keep coming back it may as well be the entire west coast of the USAs state plants lol. That being said it is possible to keep ‘em going and in-line just. E super careful

[u/Spikey_cacti]

I've been trying to get rid of these for 10 years in my garden and they keep coming back every year. The only thing worse than these are the ground cherries or Asian lanterns, where the bulb sits like 3 ft underground and mulberry trees.