A “no prune” production system in ‘Marion’ — sustainability, hardiness, and pest management

A series of treatments in a ‘Marion’ blackberry field were used to determine how sustainable a “no prune” system would be in commercial production. There were several years of plot comparisons between old floricanes overlapped with primocanes and the traditional, full floricane removal and training primocane method. Sustainability, cold hardiness, and disease and insect impacts were all part of this study.

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A “no prune” production system in ‘Marion’ — sustainability, hardiness, and pest management

A “no prune” production system in ‘Marion’ -- sustainability, hardiness, and pest management abstract A series of treatments in a ‘Marion’ blackberry field were used to determine how sustainable a…

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