Hill Raspberry, Mysore Raspberry, Black Raspberry, Indian Raspberry

I tried growing this plant several years ago. It came back for about three years and produced a small amount of mediocre raspberries. The...Read Moren, it died one winter and didn't come back. Just this year, I'm trying again, planting the raspberry on higher ground, because I have a feeling that the last plant may have succumbed to root rot. This is my last attempt to grow these.

I live in Volcan, Chiriqui, the Republic of Panama at 1400 meters in elevation. This plant has naturalized in my area and I have quite a ...Read Morefew plants on my property. I haven't tried to actually cultivate it but I protect the plants wherever they come up as they are pretty tasty. The plants are fairly common in my area but not really invasive. They seem to be mostly spread by seed as the birds like to eat them. There never seems to be enough of them to harvest very many but they bear throughout the year so there is often enough to eat out of hand. When it rains excessively they don't taste as good but otherwise they are not bad. Our area is frost-free but it never gets very hot because of the elevation. I think it helps to prune out the older canes.

I was a bit hesitant to grow these after a wide range of comments about the taste, as well as concerns about the invasiveness and thorns....Read More I planted three of these 1 1/2 years ago. They are in slightly different locations, and it's interesting how the taste of the berries varies between the plants. Basically, the plant that gets the least amount of sun has the most, biggest, and sweetest berries. It gets probably 3-4 hours of morning sun. The other two get 5 and 7 hours. All three plants are in a raised bed with lots of peat, daily irrigation, and frequent fertilizer with 24-8-16. Everyone in our family likes the taste of these even better than the blackberries we are growing. I prune the large canes occasionally, and invasiveness has not been a problem (although I'll admit it's still a bit early for the assessment). This year, they produced from early April to mid June. We had a mild winter and the plants didn't have any freeze damage. I think the coldest it got was 28.

I was looking for a raspberry that would grow in the humid SE Louisiana. Will it grow? Absolutely. But my conclusion , after two years, i...Read Mores "Don't Bother".
Fruits are - at best- insipid to tasteless. Not only not sweet, they essentialy have no flavor whatsoever.
This is the second year for them - First year was the same, but I figured I'd give them another year. Got a decent crop of berries, but the flavor did not improve. Gave the experiment a shot, but out they come.