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I never had this issue last year, but this year I’ve been experiencing about 60-70% of my raspberries having zero color on parts of tbe body of the fruits.

I use acid lovers soil and a berry blend granular fertilizer. I also water regularly during fruiting season.

Any ideas?

I’ve been working on restoring a few acres in the Appalachian range that were pretty badly abused and neglected by the folks before me. It’s been a slow, humbling journey over the past few years. When I started, I was full-on into permaculture and silviculture—still am, in spirit—but I’ve shifted more toward a kind of regenerative agriculture out of necessity. Growing enough food to survive on these slopes takes priority, and you adapt.

The land was overrun with invasive weeds when I started. The kind that suffocate everything native, swallow up light, and push out any real biodiversity. I’ve used a combination of controlled burns, manual weeding, and yes, selective glyphosate application—something I know is frowned upon in most permaculture circles. It’s not something I love, but it helped buy time and space for the natives to get a foothold.

Now, years later, I’m seeing changes. The land’s starting to shift into more of a meadow environment—tall native grasses, flowering plants, the kind of stuff you’d never see here a few years back. I’m doing my best to protect red mulberry and sassafras, and just this week I noticed an elderberry coming up where it wouldn’t have stood a chance before. That felt like a small kind of miracle.

I get why folks are wary of glyphosate. But I think the regenerative community could stand to have a more nuanced view, especially when it comes to healing long-abused land. The goal is always to create closed, self-sustaining systems—but sometimes, to get there, you’ve got to make hard choices early on.

Anyway, just wanted to share where I’m at. Not perfect, not pure, but the land is breathing again—and that feels like the right direction.

Happy to hear thoughts from others who’ve wrestled with similar decisions.

Hello again all, today I have another mystery berry I need help identifying