Are these sloes?

[4390evans]

I founf these earlier today, is this the rigt time of year for sloes?
Thanks guys

[Scarlet]

It is the right time of year but I can't tell from your photo! Sorry it's really blurred. Sloes have really nasty long thorns, if you taste one your mouth drys up in seconds, they also have a "bloom" on their skins.
Post some better photos

[4390evans]

Haha thats the best cam I have. Ill walk back along tomorrow and get pics of the plant. They are green inside with a nut.
Here are the otherr pic i took earlier

[veggiechicken]

Sloes are around now.
Your photo isn't clear enough to be sure what they are - the leaves don't look quite right. Were there any thorns on the bush?

[veggiechicken]

Take the photo with the berries attached to the bush, if you can. Cut a berry in half - what is the pip like?

[4390evans]

No thorns of what I could see, the plant itself is mostly covered. there are some little ones them some the size of grapes.

[veggiechicken]

Mostly covered with what?

[skeggijon]

The pictures aren't clear enough. Can you post a picture of the bush - preferably with a nursery label attached?

[Scarlet]

If there aren't any thorns it not sloes, they have super spikes!

[Nicos]

Yeh- we need a better piccie if poss !

The thorns can be from 1-5cm long and spaced along the branches

Have a look at this piccie...

[muddled]

The sloes this year are enormous round here.
Your berries look like sloes but I the leaves look a little wide. Sloe leaves are slightly elongated...they remind me of olive leaves. The thorns on some bushes are monsterous things but on others they look almost like fruiting spurs (until one gets you, at which point you will be in no doubt).

I'd photograph mine but they're already steeping in gin

[janzbro]

Ive found a blackthorn (sloe) without thorns but it may have been some form of natural hydrid, yours look like sloes but as others have said the leaves dont look right but photos to blurry to tell, could be a bullace

[4390evans]

I didnt manage to get out and get a pic today, I fell asleep after a long day of graft, Ill defo be out getting one tomorrow as there is only a few. They are not as clumped together as bullance berries usually are. Some of these are the size of grapes.

[4390evans]

Finally got pics only got a pot full off 4 plants.

[4390evans]

I bit into one and my lips were stuck to my teeth, horrendous!