Loch Ness
A midseason semi-erect blackberry.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -8°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 5.6–6.8
- Graft requirement
- Not required
- US availability
- Unknown
Considerations
Wood and buds hardy to about -8°F.
Mid-season harvest.
Moderate overall resistance across the family's disease and cane-pest load.
Prefers a pH band of 5.6–6.8.
These are intrinsic to the berry. On a real property, Folia scores each against your site; here they're shown on their own.
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