Beautiful, I’d love to get a cutting of Cara’s choice, I didn’t find anyone carrying this variety.
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Sure contact me in dormant season.
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How many years old are these plants?
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They vary from 6 to 8 years old. They start growing bigger the third or fourth year. Although some stay smaller like Cara’s Choice. Others grow fast, I think the Toro is 4 or 5 years old. The original plant there died.
Legacy spent its first three years in a container. And I think three more years in the raised bed. A very nice plant, the berries are excellent.
Another one of my plants. Spartan grown from cutting by @Bradybb
Toro last summer
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i see your musk strawberries took over like mine did. man are they vigorous.
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Yes I throw so many of those out. I need to thin in some of the areas. I have strawberries all over the place. It looks like a very good year for me. Everything is doing ok to great. I don’t have a lot of honeyberries but currants are producing tons of fruit. Blueberries are good. I had more other years.
Stone fruit looks excellent and I even got a decent amount of takes on my grafts… I put Black Prince and Himalayan mulberry(DMOR9)on my Pakistan tree. Black Prince is black on the outside and white on the inside.
A very cool guy I met on this site from Michigan sent me this pure looking rubra from a site near Lansing MI. The mother tree is huge around three foot diameter. And it is a contorted variety. I grafted two pieces and one is looking great.
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they took over my 12’ x 12’ honeyberry patch. i thin them by putting long mounds of 6in deep woodchips down to smother them leaving a row of strawberries in between. works good.
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That sounds good, I’m going to do that too.
I have a few rare strawberries, not sure if I still have them? I need to wait to fruit develops. Make sure to keep them.
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I don’t see any secrets here.People are talking about growing Blueberries and the pH that is conducive for them.
If Backyard Berry Plant’s system works,then that’s fine,but unwarranted criticism,doesn’t go over very well,on a public forum,like this one.
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I have a row of 6 plants in a raised bed that has a mix of peat, pine fines and some of the native soil, which is generally acidic although maybe not down where blueberries prefer it. I also have a bunch of plants in pots that are in a mix of peat and pine fines.
Our tap water is almost pH 8 and it is hot here in the summer and I would never have enough rain water to keep them watered, so they are regularly getting the tap water which slowly raises the pH. I’ve never used a meter, but I have found that one of my varieties, Elizabeth, is the first to show signs that the pH is getting higher than she likes it. I mostly use Hollytone and some sulfur for relatively slow release of nutrients and pH lowering, but if Elizabeth starts showing some chlorosis they all get a bit of faster acting ammonium sulfate and she starts looking better within the week.
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There we go again! shilling for backyard berry - I think this is the 4th time I am seeing this. 
@moderators
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@NewOrchardist
Just in case you do not know the rule here. We do not allow businesses to take advantage of the forum. You seem to push this nursery in several threads/posts. It is not allowed. Admins will delete them.
If you do not intend to advertise, please know we do not allow you do what you just did.
We have several business owners who are forum members here. They are here to share their experience and give advice. If we ever feel that they are here to just advertise their products, such posts will be removed.
Please consider yourself warned. Thank you for your cooperation.
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My friendship blueberry! This plant is only 2-3 years old, I know I shouldn’t let it fruit but it looks like it’s the only bush that will provide any berries this year. Will I seriously stunt its growth with this plan? I just fertilized with some hollytone a few days ago.
Warned?
I’m posting planting guides that helped me in the past, for people that need help.
It’s not my business, so nothing you just said matters, or applies to me. Where you or the people making high school level arguments got that from is beyond me, but… enjoy your internet arguments & made up accusations.
In fact, since you or someone else deleted my personal post to Sharbecr, delete my account, posts and all personal data from your censorship forum.
I’m crushed! I won’t be able to post ofn a fruit foum anymore!
Instead, I’ll come on here to sponge information when it serves me best & contribute nothing.
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If you cannot be civil, you breaks the forum ‘s rule and policy. Such a behavior is not welcome.
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I haven’t had to PLANT any grass around my blueberry bushes. You help me feel a little less guilty that I didn’t get the bushes all weeded last season. So I might have been helping them out , actually. Cool!
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No, it does look a little pale though. Maybe some food, they like to eat.
It’s big enough to let fruit. Don’t expect much from the berries till it is bigger. Flavor will improve some.
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Good call, looking at the bag of hollytone again it says to double the application amount if you’re applying on top of mulch, which I am. I’m afraid of hurting it with too much, but I’ve heard with those organic fertilizers that’s it’s really hard to over do it. I’ll probably give it another few cups tonight. Thanks!
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