It tasted good. But nowhere as good as sweet crisp is reputed to be.
5 years later I am still looking for the real Sweetcrisp!
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I bought 2 tiny blueberry plants that have round leaves…
It was from Greenwood nursery if you wanna try that one out too.
I saw “bareroot” on the website but no bareroot stock. Am I missing something?
It’s potted
Obtaining a Sweetcrisp in Washington State and PNW and quite likely beyond,might be difficult,but maybe not impossible.
The reason being,Fall Creek Nursery in Oregon,has the territorial distribution rights there.They are wholesale and aren’t releasing the variety.
I’ve contacted a few places that sold Sweetcrisp and everything about the order was fine,until my address was known and then it was no deal.
I did get a couple plants from Mail Order Natives,an offshoot of Superior Nursery in Florida,a number of years ago,but they no longer sell them.
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Can i buy a cutting from you 
Hi Melon. You have a lot of rabbit eye blueberry varieties. D you find they are more tolerant of growing conditions concerning PH, sun, water?
Not sure because they’re all in pots and i just either throw some soil acidifier on them every year or so or use the acid potting mixes.
I don’t really keep track of what’s a high bush or a rabbiteye 
They seem to do well in sun or shade. Shade = taller plants overall, sun = shorter. I’ve had the big ones in both. Also more sun = faster ripening but if you want to extend the harvest season with a mid or late variety, i would put them in all shade after they’re all pollinated and start growing. That’s how i got my Chandler to last about 2 weeks after they usually stop. Even picked a few more today but not much left along with the pink lemonade. Lack of sun will make them ripen slower than normal. Full sun will give them their usual ripening times.
People mentioned seedling and grafted
It’s always been my understanding that most blueberry propagation is via cuttings or root cultures. I don’t think anyone is grafting blueberries due to their nature to constantly rotate shoots out and trim them back every few years as production peaks and then declines. I haven’t tried to root blueberry cuttings successfully, however I may begin trying more diligently to root some cuttings to give away. Alfalfa is however a cultivar I have heard of also, almost bought it a few times.
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I just realized you and Alan might be talking about ALAPAHA 
not “alfalfa”.
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A good price too! I ordered 20 of those a few years back for a hedge, they took beautifully!
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I recently watched a YouTube video on a guy rooting blueberries in the summer with sand and makeshift humidity dome 
It seems very few of mine and up off shoots so i may have to do that with those that don’t like to multiply
Sweetcrisp variety? Did yours come true to label?
You do mean Alapaha right? Cause I’ve never seen “alfalfa” variety of blueberries
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That is impressive!
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Yeah sorry, spell correct is a double edged blade. I don’t bother changing it when it corrects me sometimes
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Bro… i was up all night the night Alan said “alfalfa” variety trying to see if I’ve missed something. Omg 
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NO ONE, outside of folks conducting breeding programs, is growing blueberries from seed. I can’t even imagine how long it would take to grow a blueberry seedling to the size of the plant pictured. They are customarily propagated by rooting cuttings, or less-frequently by tissue culture.
There are a few hobbyists/permaculturists who are grafting superior blueberry cultivars onto farkleberry/sparkleberry (V.arboreum) rootstock, but I’d be surprised if there are ANY grafted blueberries available in commerce.
@alan - for those of us in climate zones appropriate for Rabbiteye blueberries, they are a much better choice than the typical Northern highbush type… Rabbiteyes will get much larger, produce 10X the berries of a NHB, and are less finicky about soil type/pH.
And… they’ll have been propagated as rooted cuttings; not seedlings.
Breeding programs producing many good new Rabbiteye and Southern highbush types have been going for many years.
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I was aware that rabbiteyes are the option in areas too warm for northern highbush and also that there were already selected varieties. I was ignorant about how they were propagated though. I also thought the company might be selling seedlings instead of selected varieties as many nurseries do in my region. They sell selected varieties in containers but often big seedling plants are sold balled and burlapped.
I’ve been straightened out on all accounts.
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