Re: A few days' pix.

On 4/15/2025 7:38 PM, gm wrote:

BryanGSimmons wrote:
 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ej8bFYrBDEoYtMij6

  How's yer knees doing, Bryan...???

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I had surgery on the left one two weeks ago, and it's recovering a lot better that the other one did.  They'll never be even close to 100% again, but I walk over a mile most days.  I continue to plant blackberries all over.  One of the ones at the park has buds about to open.  This variety, Prime Jim, doesn't make great berries in Spring, but the berries on the first year canes that start in July are great.
"The soluble solids concentration of floricane fruit averages 7.9%, and primocane fruit 12.0%"
      source-- https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP16989P3/en
7.9% is not a very sweet berry, but 12.0% is very high in sugar.
Prime Jim is called, "obsolete," by the U of Arkansas, but that's partly due to its patent being expired, meaning that they no longer earn royalties.  No nursery sells the cultivar anymore, but I am free to propagate and sell them, though mostly I just give them away.

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