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- Start Indoors
- Transplant
- Start Outdoors
- Care
- Harvest
- Succession Plant
Early and heavy producers. Erect canes make it easy to pick these firm, midnight black berries. Fruit stores well for longer-term enjoyment. Plants are hardy, disease-resistant and cold-tolerant. First-year canes begin ripening in mid July, while second-year canes bear heaviest crops in June. Both continue to fruit until frost. Self-pollinating. May be covered by U.S.P.P. #22449 or other patents. APF-45 cultivar. Description from Stark Bros.
Rosaceae Rubus fruticosus
This is an example of the timeline you would see based on your growing conditions.
Thrips
Thysanoptera
These tiny (1/25") fast moving insects have characteristic fringed wings (though they are so small you probably can't see them). They suck sap from a variety of plants including many vegetables and are a major agricultural pest of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions and leafy greens. When present in large numbers they cause plants to become stunted and fruit to be malformed and may also transmit virus diseases. They can be a major problem in greenhouses, but in gardens they tend to be kept under control by predators. If severe outbreaks occur you can try insecticidal soap or the various botanical insecticides.
Image: Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org
Last Frost Date (LFD) refers to the approximate date of the last killing frost of spring.
Example first frost date on April 08.
First Frost Date (FFD) refers to the approximate date of the first killing frost of winter.
Example first frost date on November 01.
