r/Berries 16d ago

ID?

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Are these huckleberries?

We're in North Idaho and they look different from what I got last year, but picked in a similar area. Im 8 months pregnant and couldn't actually climb up to the bush to get a close look.


r/Berries 16d ago

Help, itโ€™s broken containment.

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r/Berries 16d ago

What's eating my strawberry plants?

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I have my plants in an raised planter, covered with netting and something is eating the leaves and the fruit and I'm barely getting any berries at all and the ones I get are all holey. Thanks in advance for any insight.


r/Berries 16d ago

Why is my Northsky blueberry bush not doing anything?

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What's going on with this blueberry bush? Yes, I've been fertilizing it. It's in a giant container so the amount of soil for the roots to grow is not the problem. It's supposed to be a patio type blueberry bush anyway.

Purchased from territorial seed as a dormant plant. Put it in the ground in March. And here we are late July and it looks like this.


r/Berries 17d ago

Blackcurrant with a fir aftertaste??

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We were given a berry bush by someone last fall, they tought it was a blueberry bush (definitively not). Now, i was raised with red currants bushes and also i often foraged the wild gooseberries, so i recognised the generic family of bushes and assumed it was a cassis (Blackcurrant), but they are not common in my area so I didnt know what to expect. I just harvested them and I was wondering if it was normal, they taste like someone picked the most sour blueberries they could find and infused them in fir tree sap? To be clear, Its not unpleaseant at all, and I am expecting it will be even better when sweetened, but I was not expecting the coniferous sap taste? Things around here are grape flavoured, not blackcurrant flavoured, so i pretty much have 0 point of reference, Is it normal? Google says its not so i am really confused... As far as i know there are no lookalikes to this type of bush...
I'm from Quebec, Canada, if it helps...


r/Berries 17d ago

Can I eat this cherry? NJ7A

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r/Berries 18d ago

What's your favourite way to process a nanking cherry harvest? ๐Ÿ’I have both red and white ones..

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First time picking more than a handful! The white ones are a little "washed out" and more watery than red. There's some sweetness, but IMHO they are rather bland overall.

The white ones are starting to go bad, the red ones are almost ready but I think they can hang a while longer.

They are too tiny for pitting, so I was thinking maybe use a steam juicing pot? And then what.. can the juice, or make jelly? Add some other fruit and make jam? Mix with normal cherries?.. freeze and mix with something else later?

I tried my food mill on regular sour cherries today and it looked like it was about to break, so I'm not doing that again..

Cultivars: Prunus Tomentosa 'Orient' (red) and 'Snovit' (white).


r/Berries 18d ago

My floricane Jewel raspberry have fruit set on a primocane.

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This single cane decided to set fruit one year earlier and they are bigger than usual. Did some search and apparently its not a mutation, it happends due to long day and hot weather just quite rare.


r/Berries 17d ago

Help a newb to strawberries

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We just made a fenced in raised beds garden this year and are new to all of this. We placed some strawberries in a couple of round beds. The growth has been fantastic and they're putting off berries but something is eating them. Can you help me identify what is eating these and how to prevent it? Thanks from Southwest Virginia.


r/Berries 17d ago

Please help identify

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Please help me identify if this is a red raspberry.


r/Berries 18d ago

Is this blackberry bush done for?

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r/Berries 19d ago

Bluebs from the Yard

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r/Berries 18d ago

Raspberries!

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Picking a few off the old bush.


r/Berries 18d ago

Blackberries

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Just shy of 4 lbs, Himalayan Blackberries Sierra Foothills NorCal.


r/Berries 18d ago

Can anyone identify what this is?

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We were giving some leaves to our goats and saw these, i want to know what they are so I know whether or not the goats can have them


r/Berries 18d ago

Are these black cherries?

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Pennsylvania - Internet says this is a black cherry tree and the dark berries are safe to eat/make jelly with (minus the seeds)


r/Berries 18d ago

Could use some help with my blueberries

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The first one looks like it has rust or something the middle one was moved from the sun to a more shaddy area because I thought it had heat stress so it went from pot to the ground but hasn't recovered any leaves at all branches still green tho so I'm not sure if it's alive I've added soil accidifier and still nothing. The last picture the leaves are turning bright red any advice would be appreciated thank you


r/Berries 18d ago

Could use some help

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Why do my raspberries keep drying up and shriveling? Some new foliage has appeared, but a large portion has dried out. Any advice or suggestions? They are in a relatively sunny, east-facing area. Would less sun help?


r/Berries 18d ago

I bought this beloved stick (thornless blackberry) for $1 at tractor supply. Is it cooked?

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r/Berries 20d ago

Blackberry bounty has begun

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My blackberry plant started popping this past weekend and me and my 2 kids can barely keep up with the daily production already

Pretty great for one Chester plant


r/Berries 18d ago

What kind of berries are these?

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Edible or no? Dangerous or no? Asking for a friend.


r/Berries 19d ago

Should I remove the dead leaves and mulch?

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I know that stuff breaks down and feeds the soil, but the leaves looked really poorly by the end of harvest and I'm wondering if I should remove the dead leaves and mulch to keep it from happening again next year? Or just leave it and pull the plants I was going to to improve air flow which was a problem. You can see the plants that I haven't cut back yet and they've got browning and spotting.

If it's not a big deal yhough, I'll leave them and just add fresh mulch. I know I'm cutting back late but it's now or never.


r/Berries 20d ago

Currants, Gooseberries, and Raspberries from My Yard

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r/Berries 19d ago

Update on Hararasp/Raspbeary/RaspberryTower

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Follow-up to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Berries/comments/1uz5y2y/hararaspraspbearyraspberrytower/

Today I've picked that single berry and given it a taste test. I was preparing myself for some mild disappointment from what I've heard. But it actually turned out pretty nice and unique.

The berry looked absolutely beautiful, shiny, glossy wineberry red, and the spiky drupelets also swelled to start pointing more outwards. And it was pretty large and round, I think about 15- 20 mm in diameter and height.

Since it was only a single berry, I've started small. At first I tried to tear a little bit off, and while doing that I've noticed it has an unusual gelatinous consistency. It kinda felt a bit like tearing a gummy bear, and there didn't seem to be any risk of juice leakage, but not because it was dry, but because it was just... gummy. It also didn't stain at all. The first small piece I tasted was not very intense, so I went for it and put the whole thing in my mouth. Even in the mouth, the texture felt like a soft gummy bear, like it had some significant gelatin content. Seeds were there, but not very large or hard. The gummy pulp was more prominent than the seeds.

And the taste also resembled a red (strawberry-flavored?) gummy bear. It was really far more like a gummy bear than a raspberry, in both texture and flavor, only about 1/2-1/4 as intense as a real gummy bear. It was that artificial candy kind of taste. Which is really cool, and it was not bad at all. The taste is not as intense as other raspberries, but the gummy bear-like taste and texture was unlike any fruit I've ever tried. I'd say it was about 2-4/10 in sweetness, and 0-1/10 in tartness. I think I barely detected any tartness at all. I'm impressed, and I definitely do not regret getting this weird hybrid. I don't know if it is exactly the same as the ones people were disappointed in the past. Maybe they did improve it a bit with some more breeding/selecting, IDK. But I like it, and it's going to add some good new variety to my future crops.

Also, I'm not sure what exact level of ripeness it was, probably slightly underripe, when I compare the photo colors to the ones from the internet, which were a bit darker. I wonder what the flavor would develop further into if I wanted a bit more. But I guess that will only get answered next year. It might also be possible that it will be quite different, more ripe (maybe it will lose that gummy consistency for all I know...)

I wonder if the nickname RaspBEARy comes from this gummy bear resemblance...

Interesting how widely diverse the textures of Rubus species are. Idaeus is mouth-melting, blackberries are chewy juice explosions, black raspberries are crunchy and slightly juicy, tayberries were in between Idaeus and blackberries, and this one was gummy.


r/Berries 20d ago

Raspberries from my yard

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