Blackberry varieties / 

Doyle's Thornless blackberry variety

Rating [ 5 ]

Superb high yields and adaptation for all regions

Plants are

Plants are thornless

Bushes have

Bushes have trailing canes

Fruit weight is

Fruit weight is 8 g

Shape

Berries have a conical shape

Fruiting habit

Fruiting habit - floricane fruiting (summer-bearing)

Flowering on floricanes starts in the

Flowering on floricanes starts in the fourth week of April

Ripening date (regular) -

Ripening date (regular) - third week of June

Cold hardiness is

Cold hardiness is excellent

Patent

Patent Plant 4,094 dated August 22, 1977

Current status

Current status - modern or widely used

Country of origin
Country of origin - United States

Agawam Amanda Anastasia Wyeberry Apache Arapaho Babycakes Bailey Big Daddy Black Butte Black Diamond Black Gem Black Jack Black Magic Black Pearl Black Satin Blakely Boysenberry Brazos Caddo Chesapeake Chester Thornless Cheyenne Chickasaw Chief Joseph Choctaw Clark Gold Columbia Giant Columbia Star Columbia Sunrise COX's miracle berry Danna Douglass Doyle's Thornless Eclipse Evergreen Thornless Galaxy Hall’s Beauty Heaven Can Wait Hedrick HJ-6 HJ-7 Hull Thornless Illiny Hardy Kelly Kiowa Kotata Loganberry Lucretia Marion Mary Carmen Metolius MM01 Natchez Navaho Nettleton Creamy White Newberry Nightfall Obsidian Onyx Osage Ouachita Ponca Prime-Ark 45 Prime-Ark Freedom Prime-Ark Horizon Prime-Ark Traveler Prime-Jan Prime-Jim Reuben Schultz Shawnee Siskiyou Smoothstem Sweetie Pie Thornfree Triple Crown Twilight Von Waldo Wild Treasure Willamette Thornless Marion

The Doyle's Thornless blackberry cultivar is older than most thornless blackberry varieties cultivated today. This is thornless high-productive variety with very big yield. The canes of Doyle's Thornless blackberry are vigorous and trailing, require a cumbersome support. The producer promises yields from 10 to 20 gallons (37-75 liters) per plant in the second and next years after planting. The harvest season is from six to eight weeks. Berries are large and sweet, juicy, taste is similar to wild blackberries. Fruit are in large bunches with 20 to 100 berries in each. Also producer promises high winter-resistance and ability to grow and bear fruit in different regions, even in cold zones.
Doyle's Thornless blackberry plant Doyle's Thornless blackberry cultivar Doyle's Thornless blackberry bush
Useful Growing Guides

Useful Growing Guides:

1

Berry Soil and Nutrient Management – A Guide for Educators and Growers. M. Pritts, C. Heidenreich, L. McDermott, and J. Miller; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2

Caneberries Nutrient Management Guide. J. Hart, B. Strik, and H. Rempel; Oregon State University

3

Blackberry cultivars comparison table (2021). Compiled by myblackberryplants.com

4

High Tunnel Raspberries and Blackberries. AJ Both, Kathy Demchak, Eric Hanson, Cathy Heidenreich, Greg Loeb, Laura McDermott, Marvin Pritts, and Courtney Weber; Cornell Cooperative Extension

5

Raspberry and Blackberry Production Guide. L. Bushway, M. Pritts, D. Handley; Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service Cooperative Extension, Ithaca

6

Growing blackberries in your home garden. B. Strik, E. Dixon, A.J. Detweiler and N. Sanchez; Oregon State University Extension Service

Douglass
Previous variety
Ebano
Next variety

Reviews of the variety Doyle's Thornless

Review from [DON YELLMAN]

Doyle berries are very good. For a long time we thought they were slightly smaller than the TC that I also grow (and of course later-setting berries are smaller), but last season they seemed just as large when picked in the same part of the season.

I am not one for hair-splitting on the subject of "flavor", which is mostly in the mouth of the consumer. If it looks like a blackberry and tastes like a blackberry, I call it a blackberry. If you close your eyes, you won't be able to tell the difference between a fully ripe Doyle and and an equally ripe Triple Crown. Having said that, I don't think a climate like San Diego is ideal for growing any blackberry.

Review from [OLGA-6B]

I have small yard and want to grow a lot of plants, so have only two blackberry plants. One Triple Crown and just one plant of Doyle's blackberry. When I was buying Doyle's plant and read on their website about its productivity, I thought this is just a sale's pitch. I have two bushes next to each other in very similar conditions (sun ,irrigation, soil, etc). Doyle outperforms Triple Crown for me, they don't even come close. I collect a ~ one gallon of berries from Doyle's plant several times per week for approx 1 month now and it still has plenty of berries in different stage, should be several more weeks of harvest. Triple Crown berries are a little bigger, but the amount is not comparable, probably 3-4 times less or even more and they are almost over by now. They started at approx the same time.

I can't comment on taste of fresh berries, both are kind of sour to my taste. I use both varieties to prepare home preserves. Doyle's (and TC) both make wonderful Jams w/o pectin, just berries and sugar. Tastes absolutely delicious on ice cream or home cheese (like Fromagina Quark, tvorog, etc).

Discussions about variety Doyle's Thornless

No comments yet

Please login or register to post comments!

themes/berry/js/disqus-source-en.tpl