Blackberry Diagnostic Tool

Canes, Fuiting Laterals or Tips are Wilting and Collapsing

Both primocanes and floricanes are wilting

Canes with galls. Larva of rednecked cane borers feed inside primocanes creates a gall and girdles the canes. Infested canes either die or become weakend so they cannot growth in the following year when they are floricanes. Adults feed on leaves.

Floricanes are wilting

Winter injury damages floricaned. Buds appear healthy and start to grow, then suddenly wilt. Damage likely occured in the spring when the plants started to deacclimate and then were exposed to sudden abnormally cold temperatures.

Crown borers cause individual canes to wither and die when fruit is developing, or canes start to lodge and can be easily pulled from the plant.

Rodents can chew off bark at the base of floricanes in the winter, girdling them.

Primocanes are wilting

Cane borers

Pseudomonas is a relatively new disease to blackberry and often occurs later in the summer after a period of wet weather. Arapaho most often shows these symptoms.