Last years crop. Still flowering in zone 5b.
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They grow so fast, i don’t know if this exists for blueberries.
I just went through all of my blueberry bushes and removed all large terminal fruit clusters with no leaves. I decided to do that after noting last year that such clusters yielded smaller berries than the rest of the plant. Smaller terminal clusters were left alone. There are still plenty of blossoms on the bushes; I might have to thin them some more after I see how much fruit has formed. Leaving too much fruit on the bush results in smaller berries and less growth of new canes.
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Im constantly learning as i go myself… see what you think about this answer at about the 11min mark…but start at the 10 min or so mark to get context. The whole video has helped me understand alot of the things that i havent been doing myself…so YMMV.
‘in the winter time the flower buds werent thinned enough…so the branch has more berries than it can bare…so its not able to produce enough leaves’
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Thanks Kris. That is an excellent overall video that clearly explains everything with good diagrams.
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I’ll add a question. Has anyone ever grown the mountain huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) in captivity and gotten fruit off of it?
Whenever I have looked this up the verdict seems to be that it is impossible to do. I tried with a couple of nursery plants once and they promptly died.
Whereas I can grow evergreen huckleberry (vaccinium ovatum) easily. And get a handful of berries off of it.
Observations today:
Blue Ribbon is a water hog in comparison to everyone else. I had 2 that almost dropped everything because i didn’t water yesterday. (May be time to repot as well).
No one else has done this except blue ribbon lol
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Wow, that was such a helpful video to watch. I splurged on a large 3g liberty this winter (mostly because I couldn’t find one smaller with reasonable shipping), and the video helped explain all of the issues I’m seeing. Really great tutorial with explanations. Thank you!
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