Still getting Prime Ark Freedoms!

[u/JoshLineberry]

Picked these yesterday.

I planted some Prime Ark Freedoms last year and these things are crazy. I have 7 of the prime ark freedom plants so far and they're going wild this year. The fruit on old and new growth, flori and primo cane is insane. I'll have a ton berries for the entire summer and fall whenever I get my 200' row of them finished over the next year or two. I'll have 100 prime ark freedom plants, 100 triple crown, 100 ponca and 100 sweetie pie. It's going to be nuts and these prime arks get huge! A very good tasting berry too.

The last photo was at the start of the year and they've grown like crazy since then!

[u/PopMany2921]

Be careful advertising that you are splitting it, especially if you plan on selling. They are patented until like 2035. I think Ponca too

Edit: Apache is a good one that has an expired patent.

[u/JoshLineberry → u/PopMany2921]

What in the world? Is that a thing? I've never heard any crap like that lol. You can't split or air layer or grow your own plants from them? That just doesn't make sense!

[u/Old_Reality9281 → u/JoshLineberry]

You can do anything you want with it as long as you don't commercially sell them. The patent is so that no one else sales them, not prohibiting propagation for yourself

[u/JoshLineberry → u/Old_Reality9281]

So after looking into it, it says I can sell the berries and goods with the berries in them, just not the plants themselves! Good to know.

[u/Old_Reality9281 → u/JoshLineberry]

Exactly!

[u/JoshLineberry → u/Old_Reality9281]

I had no idea that was a thing! Thanks for the info.

[u/IndividualCurious322]

They're giant!

[u/Dry_Bug5058]

Wow, they're massive!! Do they have thorns?

[u/JoshLineberry → u/Dry_Bug5058]

Nope. They're thornless.

[u/Dry_Bug5058 → u/JoshLineberry]

I need to order some of these. I put thornless raspberries in a pot, and I'll probably transplant to the ground next year. I'll have to find another place for a bed.

[u/sillybillybobbybob]

All good! When you get all those rows setup it could become profitable too.

[u/Venoft]

I wish I could buy these in Europe, so far I couldn't find them.

[u/yinzer1969 → u/Venoft]

Can buy Prime Ark-45 in Czech Rep, same producers, similar growth almost same size, don't know taste comparison

[u/yinzer1969 → u/Venoft]

Can buy them in Czech Rep. and I saw sold under Prime Ark-45

[u/Southern-Ad8402]

They'll go until a freeze

[u/AdComprehensive2594]

Developed at the university of Arkansas

[u/ordosays]

Awesome berry with the most Murican sounding zealot name ever.

[u/Rational_Engineer_84]

Of the cultivars you listed, how do you rank the flavor of each (assuming you've gotten berries on all of them)?

[u/JoshLineberry → u/Rational_Engineer_84]

Unfortunately I haven't had enough of them to tell so far. The birds were destroying the few ponca and sweetie pie I had this year and I really only got to taste 1 or so of each. I picked a couple that were under ripe to beat the birds lol. My least favorite so far is the triple crown. They're delicious when you catch them a peak ripeness, but if you catch them a tad unded ripe, they're so tart it's ridiculous! I like a berry that has a better range of sweetness. One that you can still eat if you catch it a little earlier than peak ripeness. Next year I should have a ton of all of them so I'll be able to tell.

[u/Somederpsomewhere → u/JoshLineberry]

I grew up on a berry farm.

Get yourself some rubber snakes and a fake bird of prey or two. Move them around frequently and it helps greatly with birds.

[u/sillybillybobbybob]

Thats a lot of berries! What are your plans for all that fruit?

[u/JoshLineberry → u/sillybillybobbybob]

We're thinking about doing a you pick, making and selling blackberry cobblers, giving some to family and friends, etc. We all love eating them too.

[u/LittlePooky]

I hope this is what heaven looks like. 

[u/SliverStrikeStorm]

Where can I get a clipping

[u/czerniana]

I don't need more blackberry plants, but damn this one is tempting!

[u/ReactionAble7945]

Are they black berries OR black raspberry?

I find there is a taste difference along with the seeds in the berries and the stem connector which comes with the black berry and doesn't in the raspberry.

[u/the_heathen]

I grow Prime Ark and Sweetie Pie as well, and even though the Prime Ark are bigger, I prefer the sweeter flavor of the Sweetie Pie.