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From the blackberry kind thread - "One variety to avoid is Reuben. Launched a few of years ago as the first primocane blackberry with lots of praise on its fruiting and flavour. I found it to be a very poor cropper, flavour is OK but not worth the space in your garden."
Here in USA South we have different varieties and I put in a primocane one called 'Prime Jan' it is supposed to fruit on both primo and floracanes (I think) Like yours I was not happy with it, not a great crop, not great flovour and really was a floracane producer. I took it out this winter. I did keep some roots in a couple pots and may put them out - actually I think I did put one on some scrub ground.
I have 150 foot or so of trellised blackberries. Most is the very long reaching Kiowa, which has huge berries - but a bit bland, the good thing is they are so viciously thorny the creatures cannot climb them, and the berries so huge the birds cannot carry them off. I get a good crop, last year about 12 gallons and some were first year so no fruit. I also have 30 foot of a thornless, upright, kind I dug from an abandoned garden - smallish berries, again not so favorable, and the creatures eat lots of them.
I love growing blackberries - and not many berries grow here in the heat but these thrive. I have a raspberry developed for here (most cannot take the summer) that has grown very well and this year should get fruit - very excited.
Here in USA South we have different varieties and I put in a primocane one called 'Prime Jan' it is supposed to fruit on both primo and floracanes (I think) Like yours I was not happy with it, not a great crop, not great flovour and really was a floracane producer. I took it out this winter. I did keep some roots in a couple pots and may put them out - actually I think I did put one on some scrub ground.
I have 150 foot or so of trellised blackberries. Most is the very long reaching Kiowa, which has huge berries - but a bit bland, the good thing is they are so viciously thorny the creatures cannot climb them, and the berries so huge the birds cannot carry them off. I get a good crop, last year about 12 gallons and some were first year so no fruit. I also have 30 foot of a thornless, upright, kind I dug from an abandoned garden - smallish berries, again not so favorable, and the creatures eat lots of them.
I love growing blackberries - and not many berries grow here in the heat but these thrive. I have a raspberry developed for here (most cannot take the summer) that has grown very well and this year should get fruit - very excited.
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