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How do you treat this? Or is the plant not cureable anymore?
there is no single cause, so it depends on the specific cause, which can be identified.
However, This year I strongly suspect it is because of late spring heavy rains. In which case they should bounce back if we ever get back to normal weather.
My first thought when I read the title of your thread was, "Thank God!" LOL! I've always lived where blackberries are the plague plant. They are trying to take over the western world!
On the other hand, they are by far my most favorite fruit/berry to eat in the whole wide world.
I totally understand when you said they are taking over the western world because they spread like crazy. They are everywhere in my front yard...on every single corner..it's crazy!
A house I bought in Sumas, WA (right on the Canadian border) had a small shed behind the house that was completely covered in blackberry vines. Looked like a big lump. Blackberries are the Kudzu of the PNW.
I had a big beer/spaghetti party and invited lots of couples, including men with chain saws, lol! they hacked away until we could see the shed, and then hacked a perimeter around that area, so I could put in pig fencing, then put in two pigs to help kill the blackberry vines back there.
That said, may I share my favorite trick for blackberry picking? Get a sheet of stiff plywood, throw it in the back of the pickup. Go to the biggest mess of blackberries you can find. Plunk the plywood down as far out into the middle of the blackberries as you can and climb aboard! Right in the middle where all the big juicy ones are!
We used to go down to the White Salmon/Hood River bridge where they grow wild next to the bridge, and pick tons of them with the plywood technique. Yum!
I lived all over WA state, in case the references are confusing LOL!
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