Order Black Satin Blackberry Bush Online Thornless Blackberry Variety That’s Sweet & Soft Like Satin Rubus ‘Black Satin’, as it is botanically named is the perfect addition to your sweet berry collection! Home gardeners from all over can grow and enjoy the Black Satin Blackberry and pick fruit in the first year of planting! Beginning in spring, pink flowers will bloom on old wood from last year. Eventually, after being pollinated, these flowers will mature into huge fruits ready for picking! The Black satin thornless blackberry is thorn free making it so easy to pick fruit off the canes and has a delicious taste. The Black satin blackberry taste can be described as super sweet with few seeds and a juicy mouthfeel. Produced by the Blackberry Breeding Program at the University of Arkansas, black satin blackberry plants are perfect for home gardens, containers, or planted in borders or beds where you grow other fruiting plants. How to care For Your Black Satin Blackberry Grow this blackberry variety across the United States in USDA hardiness zones 5-8. They need full sun to produce fruit and organically rich but well-draining soil. Apply our Fruit Tree Planting Mix or slow-release fertilizer in early spring to help amend the native soil if you are planting it in the ground. Applying fertilizer will help boost fruit production. The black satin blackberry size is up to 6 feet tall and 4-6 feet wide at maturity. It’s the perfect size for small garden spaces or growing on your patio! Space the blackberries at least 4-5 feet apart to allow for proper air circulation. Your black satin blackberry container should be at least twice the size of the container you get it in. A 5 or 6-gallon pot would suffice. It will need to be repotted every 2-3 years as it outgrows its current pot. With a little TLC, growing black satin thornless blackberry is rewarding and fun! For black satin blackberry pollination, you do not need another pollinator nearby. Blackberries are self-fertile and will produce fruit with only 1 bush. Gardeners should perform black satin blackberry pruning annually to have the best chance of producing bushels of blackberries. Prune back canes after they finish fruiting. Flowers are produced on old wood so take note of which semi-erect canes did not produce and save those for the following growing season. Our thornless blackberry bushes are not shipped bare root. They are rooted in nursery pots with a full root system. Thornless blackberries are heat tolerant, disease resistant, and so easy to grow! Shop Black Satin Blackberry Bush for sale today! Check out all our berry bushes for sale.
