Blackberryvariety
Prime-Ark Freedom
Also known as APF-153
APF-153
A primocane-fruiting Arkansas blackberry.
No photo of Prime-Ark Freedom yet
Released 2013
No Prime-Ark Freedom photo yet
How to spot it
- Weight
- Fruit weight9–15 g
Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.
journals.ashs.org ↗Context & source
- /details/observations/1/value/fruit mass g/scope
- Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.
- /details/observations/1/value/fruit mass g/observations/0/qualifier
- as_reported
Harvest & storage
- Storage
- fruit not recommended for shipping as storage potential is limited for postharvest handling for multiple days, but should be suitable for home garden or local market use.
- Harvest
- ripens very early on floricanes, 7–9 d before Natchez and APF-45 (Prime-Ark® 45), on primocanes ripens early, early to mid July in Arkansas and 2 weeks before APF-45 (Prime-Ark® 45) and later in cooler locations and can fruit until frost
Origin & family
Where Prime-Ark Freedom began
- Crossed
- 2004
- Selected
- 2007
- Released
- 2013
Field notes
Original source notes
Harvest
ripens very early on floricanes, 7–9 d before Natchez and APF-45 (Prime-Ark® 45), on primocanes ripens early, early to mid July in Arkansas and 2 weeks before APF-45 (Prime-Ark® 45) and later in cooler locations and can fruit until frostMeasurements
- Fruit weight (g)
- 9–15
Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.