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    How long between dewberry flowers and ripe berries?

    #2
    Are you already seeing blooms on your vines?

    I’m pretty sure I made notes of their bloom-berry-fruit cycle on my calendar last year, but a search brings nothing up. I’ll keep looking, though.

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      #3
      Lots and lots of blooms still around our place but we have lots of little green berries too... Normally it's early May (maybe very late April) before most of the dewberries get ripe here (about 30 miles north of the Houston area). My cultivated blackberries are going nuts too.. already got green berries as big as the end of my thumb.. Hope they don't get frost bit tonight!! Trying to figure out if I have something big enough to cover the two plots we have...

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        #4
        Mid May here in Hopkins County. Got white blooms all over here too. But it’s real consistent with mid May here. Good Huntin (and berry-pickin), and God Bless, Rusty

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          #5
          Had blooms starting about 3 weeks ago--but that is early. Out at the pasture today and the vines at the gate have little green berries and flowers on them. And, just got some rain so hoping for a good crop.

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            #6
            Can’t wait be another month and we be picking mid April this year

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              #7
              I wouldn't go buy the sugar for jelly just yet... If it frosts tonight like predicted, all those bloom n little green berries will bet burnt and likely killed...
              We are going to cover our two blackberry plots for tonight. I hope I'm wrong, but I've seen it happen before when they bloom out this early...

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                #8
                Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View Post
                I wouldn't go buy the sugar for jelly just yet... If it frosts tonight like predicted, all those bloom n little green berries will bet burnt and likely killed...
                We are going to cover our two blackberry plots for tonight. I hope I'm wrong, but I've seen it happen before when they bloom out this early...

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                  #9
                  We covered our two blackberry plots, but all the dewberry blooms out in the pasture look like they had scalding hot water poured over them!! It was 30 degrees Sunday morning and we had a frost that looked like snow on the grass! Dangit! Don't know if all the little green berries that were on the plants will make or not, but it sure doesn't look good for the blooms...

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                    #10
                    Ours are coming up now, but haven't noticed buds. We pick late may to mid june depending on water. Last year we had a ton of berries that never finished out due to lack of water
                    We are in falls co

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                      #11
                      Got my first ripe one today

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                        #12
                        Drove by my spot yesterday and I’m saying another week for the patch.

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                          #13
                          I think this weekend be enough for the first pie

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                            #14
                            I typically have them picked and ready to cook the week before Memorial Day

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                              #15
                              Making jelly tonight in victoria county

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