An extremely early ripening trailing blackberry with excellent shipping and fresh market characteristics. Origin: United States Depar™ent of Agriculture –Agricultural Research Service in Corvallis, Ore., by Chad E. Finn, Brian M. Yorgey, Bernadine C. Strik, Robert R. Martin, and Chaim Kempler. ORUS 828-43 × ORUS 1122-1; cross made in 1993; selected in 1995; tested as ORUS 1369-3; introd. in 2005. Tree: trailing canes; thorny; vigorous, more vigorous than Marion; very productive, greater than all other current trailing cultivars; not particularly susceptible to Septoria leaf spot and purple blotch; no vegetative or fruit symptoms of cane or leaf rust; no significant winter injury has been experienced on this genotype in Oregon, Washington or British Columbia, however it has not been exposed to temperatures lower than-11.3 °C; ploidy estimated to be 2n=6x=42 based on flow cytometry. Fruit: medium–large, 6.8 g; glossy; blunt conic; drupelet arrangement, not as uniform as Siskiyou or as lumpy as Chester Thornless; very good firmness; excellent flavor; can be picked firm black with good flavor; in commercial fresh storage trials still firm after 22 d refrigeration with minimal mold and fair flavor; excellent black color going into and coming out of refrigerated storage and through freezing and thawing; soluble solids similar to Marion and much greater than Chester Thornless; titratable acidity was greater than for Chester Thornless and similar to Marion; ripens with Metolius blackberry and Willamette red raspberry, peaking 4-5 d ahead of Siskiyou and 2 to 4 weeks earlier than all erect and semi-erect blackberries; machine harvests well.
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