Eggo-I have tried a couple of them and have finally given up on them. They do survive our summers but not in very good shape. I think the very high humidity and high temps in south GA are just a bit too much for them. The fruit is okay but in my opinion is really not that good and does not really taste like the red raspberries I really enjoy.

Just my $0.02 worth.

thanks GA I was hoping to hear better things but its good to hear from both sides. I am looking for berries that will do well in California and grapes also. Still researching.
I guess mysore are more suitable to drier climates. Dont they grow on the hillside of the volcanos.

Eggo, I have them, and have been picking them for about a month. The fruit is small and a bit bland. I'm not fond of seeing the tiny bugs inside them, in the hollow area after they are picked. I *detest* the vines, they are sooo thorny, so invasive, and it hurts to work with them.

I'm much, much happier with the wonderful Apache Blackberries! Super tasting fruit, heavy bearers, no thorns at all, easy to grow. I have 20 or so along my back fence and really enjoy them.

I have 7 named grape varieties too, one "Sugar Gate" produced well its first year. The others have concentrated on growing big and strong(G). I have one bunch grape (Blanc de Bois) the rest are various Muscadines.

Eggo do you have Barbados Cherry or Cherry of the Rio Grande? Neat plants with tasty fruit. I love mine!

Lisa

Eggo-My understanding is that they do grow on the slopes of volancos in Hawaii. (Never been there to see for myself but it is on the list of things to do.)

I have to agree with Lisa about the the thorns on the Mysore. They will eat you alive if you just get near the plant. I also have to second her opinion on the thornless blackberries. I have grown both Navaho and Apache and both do very well in south GA. I think I like the Navaho a little better for our climate but both are great fruits (and no thorns).

Thanks for the info GA and Lisa. Well, I'm gonna have to try me those other berry varieties. hehe.

I never tried barbados cherry.
I killed my Cherry of the Rio Grande. =(. It was one of those seedlings I purchased years ago. It never really recovered from shipping. It defoliated(well didn't really defoliate, more like leaves wilted and dried) then died. Do you have any seeds? =)

Eggo, my Barbados Cherry plants are bloomimg and fruiting now. If we aren't swept away by the hurricane, I can hopefully send you fresh seeds in a few weeks. Mine are the "Florida Sweet" variety. Very pretty, delicate pink blooms and the juicy fruits have the highest vitamin C content of any fruit.

Don't have any seeds for COTRG. I bought my 4 plants from Pine Island nursery. My oldest one is 8' tall now. They can suffer from a "dieback" problem that no one knows the cause of. One of mine has it. The flowers of COTRG are also very pretty.

Lisa

Here is a link that might be useful: COTRG flowers

Lisa, thanks! Damn, those hurricanes just aren't giving you folks a break over there. Nice flowers, reminds me of guava blooms.

Mysore raspberry thrives in the humid, tropical conditions of South Florida. I doubt the summers of of GA is the problem. A well-grown mysore cloned by cuttings from a superior variety (not an inferior seedling)is very tasty. It is, of course, quite different from the temperate red raspberries, but quite tasty nonetheless. Other than the brazos blackberry it is the only bramble that does well here in extreme south FL. The arapaho and appache do not do well this far south (need more chilling hours).

"The arapaho and appache do not do well this far south (need more chilling hours)."

Actually, that is not true. Excalibur Rare fruit tree nursery sells Apache Blackberries, which are thriving in zone 10 (Lake Worth, Florida). I'm 30 miles north, and my 20 Apache plants are doing great! I have seen them listed as needing 800-900 chill hours, yet we only get 150 chill hours normally. I have no explaination as to why these do so well here.

Lisa

I know this is an old post, but I thought I would bring it back up since I recently acquired a mysore raspberry specimen and wanted to throw my two cents in. The plant is indeed thorny, but I don't mind very much since I have spent the last year or so raising salak palms and am quite used to being stuck by thorns. As it turns out though, I really enjoy eating these berries! I guess I was surprised since I've heard so many detractors, but the ones I tasted from my plant had a bold flavor that's somewhere between a raspberry and a blackberry - not bland at all. Maybe I just lucked out and got a good strain? In any case, it's a tasty little berry that I plan on using in some breeding experiments over the next couple of years with other Rubus species. Any one else still working with mysore raspberries?

Eldys

where did you get your cuttings?
I'd like to try here in scorching Arizona with shade cloth.

thank you!

I ate my first home grown red raspberry last week. one of my Caroline plants from Raintree had set fruit, was not bad tasting at all. The other Caroline plant had not bloomed this year. I have killed several Baba berry plants before, haven't been able to keep them alive over the hot summers.

I just bought a mysore raspberry (3gal) today at Pine Island Nursery. I wish I had read this before, because now I am wondering if it's going to be worth the hassle of growing it out into a full shrub. I thought it was like a real raspberry plant.

Does anybody have any updates about growing Mysore, Apachee, or other berries in South Florida ? I live in Boynton Beach (Palm Beach County)and wanted to know if anybody in this area grows berries as I read so much about the chilling requirements of these plants.

Just to update this blog: Zone 10b

I purchased a Mysore berry bush last year and it did not do well at all (died) I purchased another one this year (2016) and it started to perform( browning and curling of leaves) as last year, so I started adding compost tea and "Extreme blend" Kelp4less.com watering and it is rebounding with new growth, I think it will do well this year! As for as the Apache blackberry, I planted it last year, didn't get any fruit, this year the plant looks very healthy with new growth all over and ready to start budding. On the same note, I purchase another one this year and it has nice healthy branching and looks ready to perform its duty as to producing berries this June/July!

I also have a Florida Peach tree (4 years old) and it has performed great for the last two years, and they look just like or even better than the peaches you purchase in stores! Warning: Must spray tree with "Neem" oil when peaches are the size of a nickel to protect your fruit from worm infestation ( last year, worms, this year after spraying with neem, NOT ONE worm.

Also, Heritage and Anne raspberries are growing very nicely. Got a crop of Anne last year, but was crumbly, it should do well this year, the plant is well established now.