Cyndi,
If your neighbor wants you to use rooting hormone before he'll give you
a blackberry runner, why don't you whip up a batch of kelp liquid and
use that. If he didn't specify the stuff with fungicide, than and
organic rooting hormone should do just as well. this has the added
advantage of showing that there are alternatives to using fungicides.
Deborah
Thanks to Deborah and everyone else who gave great suggestions for how to
get my neighbor to give me a blackberry cutting while still making him
happy. I should mention that he lives up the street...literally up a huge
hill (the Oakland foothills) and so I can't get there except by car (my SO
tried to push me there once and failed) so we don't visit these neighbors
and since they usually drive to and fro, they rarely visit us. In fact, I
haven't seen them in months, and that was at a local store.
In other words, the advice people are giving is pretty much moot since we
don't see them or their blackberries. And now I have blackberries of my
own and can get all the varieties I want from the Calif Rare Fruit Growers.
So thanks again but the "problem" I had is not a current one and doesn't
need fixing.
Cyndi
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Oakland, California Zone 9 USDA; Zone 16 Sunset Western Garden Guide
Chemically sensitive/disabled - Organic Gardening only by choice and neccessity
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