#SWEETIE PIE BLACKBERRY PLANT SKIN#
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Wherever you live, 'Sweetie Pie' is prepared with big yields and vigorous growth! It begins bearing in mid to late season - in the deep south, this is often early summer, but it will vary with climate. Sweeter than most other thornless varieties of blackberry bushes.

Is resistant to double blossom or rosette caused by a fungus. As with most blackberry plants, this one blooms and fruits on second year canes.

#SWEETIE PIE BLACKBERRY PLANT FULL#

This trailing shrub is also very productive, thriving in full sun but unafraid of a bit of shade now and again. A thornless blackberry, the Sweetie Pie is excellent for home gardens and pick-your-own (U-pick) operations. which makes them just perfect for hand-picking and eating fresh from the home garden! They are soft to be marketed commercially.

#SWEETIE PIE BLACKBERRY PLANT SKIN#

On the basis of Threlfall et al.’s (2016) findings on ideal composition parameters for fresh-market blackberries and according to market research, made in 2020 by Threlfall and John Clark et al.’s, Ponca have the most ideal composition of the cultivars evaluated, with a 12.83 soluble solids/titratable acidity ratio, 10.40% soluble solids, and 0.82% titratable acidity.Southern gardeners, rejoice! 'Sweetie Pie' was bred in Mississippi and trialed in Louisiana and Arkansas, so you know this thornless, super-sweet blackberry can really take heat and humidity! Sporting soft, absolutely delicious berries, it belongs front and center in your berry patch!ĭeveloped by the USDA for improved resistance to Rosette disease (a fungal infection that can wreak havoc on blackberries in hot, humid climates), 'Sweetie Pie' has also turned out to be the highest in sugars, averaging 10 to 12%! These berries are mid-sized, with a glossy skin and very tender, succulent texture. Comparison table of popular fresh-market blackberry cultivars and Ponca blackberry (2019 harvest season, Clarksville, Arkansas) Blackberry Winter hardiness has been comparable to Ouachita and has shown very little injury to a low of minus 17 С. Plants have shown slight susceptibility to cane and leaf rust. Plants and fruit have shown no evidence of anthracnose and no evidence of susceptibility to orange rust. Storage potential of fresh fruit of the new cultivar is good and overall comparable to Osage and Caddo, berries are very firm. Consistent flavor was noted at repeated observations of fruit of this cultivar over the years of evaluation including after rain events that can reduce flavor and overall fruit quality. The fresh fruit rates very well in flavor and is a noteworthy attribute of the cultivar and is comparable to Osage and Caddo.

Ponca cultivar exhibits excellent fruit fertility with full drupelet set. Size is maintained well throughout the entire harvest season.

The fruit is round, slightly oblong in shape and glossy with a uniform black finish. Fruit yield on floricanes averages 5.8 kg per plant.Īverage berry weight is about 6 g, slightly larger than Osage and nearly the same as Caddo. The average floricane fruiting period is 55 days. Flowers are big (about 40 mm in diameter), have white color. Flower fertility is high and clusters are well filled. The bloom period of the Ponca cultivar begins in the last week of April. The canes can be trained to a self-supporting hedgerow although it is beneficial to use a trellis with supporting wires to prevent canes from falling over due to wind or heavy fruit loads.

Berries and flower clusters are medium-large, cymose, and are mostly borne on the periphery of the plant canopy, providing easy access to harvest. Primocanes and floricanes are erect in growth habit. Plants are low in height, about 1,5 m when properly tipping. Bushes are moderately vigorous and very prolific. Ponca is floricane-fruiting medium-sized thornless blackberry cultivar. Clark, and this cultivar is the twentieth blackberry from the fruit breeding program of the division’s Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Ponca (Sweet-Ark Ponca) offers the top of flavor from one of the world’s leading public blackberry breeding programs. Meet one of the sweetest blackberry cultivar in the world! It is Ponca blackberry.

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