i have a two year old mysore and it is great fun.we have been picking 15-20 berries every other day for about three weeks now and the kids love them.there are hundreds more yet to ripen. my yard was a sheet of ice during the freeze killing two mangos and the mysores didnt even flinch.the taste is a 6 or 7 ish. they are good when picked tart and slightly immature but when fully ripe have a slight wellwater aftertast? (possibly due to my neighbors well water that sprays on it)? beggers cant be choosey they love our high heat and humidity and dont mind sandy soil. im on the water and i can tell you this they dont like wind! i planted two and the protected one is happy as a clam and the wind blown one always struggled and died.

ps. pine island or jene's usually have them

I can't understand why IFAS lists Mysore as suitable only for South Florida. The article from Purdue (which I remembered incorrectly in my original post) says:

"This raspberry has a remarkable climatic range in Asia, from the relatively warm altitude of 1,500 ft (450 m) to the temperate environment at 10,000 ft (3,000 m). In Florida, brief drops in temperature to 35º F (1.67º C) have done the plants no harm but 20º F (-1.67º C) has killed young, tender growth, and prolonged freezing weather has killed the plants to the ground or outright."

I don't know that I've seen temps below 20 degrees F here in Oviedo. If I do see them, I'm going to expect a heckuva lot more plants in my yard dying than the Mysore.

Looking at the docs again, I guess it doesn't reproduce from root cuttings. I thought that was pretty much a given with all brambles. It has to be tip layered or reproduced from seed (with some difficulty). Jene's and Pine Island aren't showing them online. I plan to go to the Leu Gardens event, possibly someone there will have one.

readily available from ECHO. reseeds pretty prolifically from what some have told me.

pine island has them/ plant characteristics / then R for ras/then scroll down to the mysore

So they do -- my bad. Their Web site is *not* intuitive. The way it's set up, it looks like if you're not looking for a Lychee, Mango, Sapodilla, Avacado or Dragon Fruit then you're out of luck. I've emailed them and asked about shipping costs for a 3Gal pot. Thanks.

Between the plant cost and shipping, I'd be out $54 for one 3-gallon pot of Mysore. I can't justify spending that much for a single plant. I'd be willing to send anyone that has a plant $5 to mail me a few berries so I can try growing from seed. The seeds supposedly need to be scarified in order to sprout reliably. However, I found a good link on seed scarification (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8704.html).

If I can manage to get some seeds, I'll turn it into a science project for my daughter. I'll treat one set in strong acid for a few minutes -- sulfuric is recommended. I don't have that, but I have some muriatic acid which should do as well. I'll try another set using a weak acid like vinegar overnight. A third set I'll score with a knife, and a final set leave alone for a control.

Then throw the lot into one of the peat-pot greenhouses and *some* of them should produce seedlings (hopefully). I'll be certain to post the results here.

i juts bought a mysore from a local lowes store.i plated it in a big storage container.wish me luck and lets see how it does.hows eyerones mysore doing?any advice for me?this is my 1st raspberry plant.i also have 3 thornless blk berryr ark prime freedom plants i bought

I grew mysore for a few years in 9B, till my yard guy unknowingly mowed it down. It grew okay was but was rather bland. It doesn't taste like a good sweet rasberry or blackberry tho YMMV. Mulberries have more flavor.

they grow tall n bloom -but for some reason the plant fails to set the berries and they dry up and i do water them maybe its not enough im not sure

Is anyone still growing their mysore raspberries? My mother was recently hoping I could plant a few berries for her in containers that would produce something tasty. How do you like the flavor?

garden gal - I had them for a few years they will produce small black raspberries, but there is no flavor to them - at least not for me in 9b. Big disappointment - pretty thorny. They don't taste bad, they just don't taste like anything - fairly soft/fragile/mushy, bland & not sweet.

If blackberries & raspberries are an 8 then a Mysore is a 3 or 4. I would opt for a zone 10 blackberry variety if you can find one or dwarf ever bearing mulberry IME. Even a Florida blueberry variety would be better and would do okay in containers - just don't expect them to taste like Wild Maine Blueberries. Mysore is a gangly briar and probably not ideal for containers

My yard guy just thought they were thorny briars and mowed them down without asking first. I never replanted them & don't miss them and I like berries. They will grow in 9B and produce a few small berries, but that is the best thing I can say about them. They were also shy bearers.

Cape Gooseberry/Husk Cherry might be another option. Never grown them in containers before, but you probably can if you keep them trimmed up.

If it was for my Mom I would do a strawberry planter/tower or something like that. Strawberry planting season starts in October and it would probably give her strawberries for a few months. You can get quite a few strawberries from a tower planter. Check out Sweet Charlie & Festival varieties.

A Sungold or Sweet 100 cherry tomato would also be a tasty alternative for a planter.