Product Description
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Prime Ark® 45 a release from Dr. John Clark and University of Arkansas.
Prime Ark 45 is a thorny upright blackberry. This early ripening, primocane-fruiting blackberry produces excellent fruit ideal for your home garden. The fruit is very tasty, dark purple-black, medium sized berries. The berries store well and have an excellent shelf life. Heaviest yields are on second-year canes beginning in early summer. Plants are very disease resistant and cold hardy. Canes fruit until frost. Everbearing primocane.
Self-pollinating.
Most blackberry plants produce flowers and fruit on floricanes, canes that don’t begin bearing fruit until their second year. In addition, Prime-Ark 45 produces berries on primocanes, or first-year canes. Floricane berries on Prime-Ark 45 are ready for picking from early to mid-June. Primocane berries are ready for picking around August and can last into the fall until frost.
Zones: 6-9 2 year old plants
