[Yana]

Can anyone help please?
There is a small number (5-6) of very long 'canes / branches' of the plant below growing around the shed on my new half plot. It doesnt have thorns, the branches / canes are a very dark red in colour, is obviously a berry / fruit of some sort, but I dont know what.

[DD.]

Certainly looks like one.

[Yana]

Should I prune it at this time of year?
I would like to be able to train it a bit more than it is at the moment.

[DD.]

Now's a good a time as any.

[sunshineband]

Take out completely anything that has already fruited --- these will have the remains of dead fruit visible towards their ends

Shorten anything that is too rampant, and think about how you could support the canes-- wires on the shed perhaps? an dthis keeps them under control.

It could be a blackberry, but also might be a thornless loganberry or tayberry.

My blackberries have green stems tbh but the tayberry etc have red stems..


either way you should have some thing good 

[DD.]

My thornless Loch Ness Blackberry has red stems! 

[sunshineband]

My thornless Loch Ness Blackberry has red stems! 

So it might be this one 

All goes to show we can only speak from our own experience, and learn from others' 

[ThatsNice]

The 'berries' growing on my plot have deep red/purple shiny canes and a few thorns, so not thornless. We've decided to keep it for now (cutting all the others back) to see what kind of berry we get!

[Yana]

I'll cut back the fruiting canes now and wait until the fruits appear next year. Cant loose whatever it turns out to be.