Any success on the plants..

[Carey]

Raspberries do to well here, to the point that a few varieties are weeds, are some are considered invasive nuisance plants.

There is one endemic species of Raspberry (Rubus hawaiiensis) that is on the evolutionary 'island unique' species that has lost most of its thorns (there was no need for a plant to have thorns on an island with no grazing mammals...)
For a list of weeds in Hawaii (to find the raspberries, scroll down to the 'Rubus':
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/Dat...Hawaii.asp