Enormous amount of blueberries this year. Can the soil acidifier I added this year mean more bountiful yields?
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What month do your red barron ripen in? You are a few zones off but it may give me a reference point to work with.
If I remember correctly, it’s late August, but I need to consult with residence squirrels for sure. I will pay a little closer attention this year and let you know more precise time frame.
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Chandler is very happy this year along with…
Pink popcorn blueberry
Pineberry amazing me with fruit on non rooted runners. I’m worried though cause no one is pollinating my strawberries. All the bumblebees are focusing on my blueberries right now. Also my supposed but not Niwot is finally forming buds in over 3 years!
my new Gardenia is telling me it’s very happy to be out of Lowes
it was hidden indoors with the palm trees… i think i bought the last and only 2 they had.
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Nice looking blueberry plants. I wish I could grow blueberry as healthy as yours. I am going to pot my blueberry plants once my Hartman order arrives. How big is your container?
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I have containers anywhere from 1 gallon to 25 gallon.
Acidic soil mixes and acidic soil fertilizers are your friend. Keep them from touching each other and keep an eye on the soil. If there’s a lot of white dust after a month of watering, you have hard water and may need to throw a little extra soil acidifier every 2 months or so depending on your water hardness. Hard water creates alkaline soil conditions.
This beautiful leaf is from Pearl. Last year when i got it from backyard berry plants, it was extremely sick with rust fungus that i could not make disappear. I stripped all of it’s leaves and gave it fertilizer then kept with the usual upkeep of watering it every now and then if it’s not raining. This year, it’s not producing much, I’m guessing from lack of energy from last year, but it’s healthy. It has 1 flower set but that’s enough
hoping it takes off next year.
Also blueberries LOVE LOVE LOVE water. Maybe that’s why I’m so great with them lol. I love watering plants to death
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One of the lilac plants the landscapers planted before we moved in.
also I’m in love with the kiwi berry plant. All these flower nubs
and over 1 ft of growth in 1 gallon pots over the last 2 weeks alone
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Good advice 
I had blueberry plants before but they grew smaller and weaker every year and finally done. I think it’s the soil acidity issue. This time I will pay closer attention to manage the acidity level and see what happens.
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The coveted summer fruiting loquat.
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What variety is the loquat?
A seedling as far as I am aware of. I got it on vacation in Savannah GA it was too large to not buy at that time for that price (8ft for $89)
They didn’t know the variety but I got it anyhow.
3 Gerardi mulberry. Very tasty I’d say. If two 2 foot long sticks can produce this, I am sure as it grows and matures I’ll be happy with the fruit.
I also quite like the texture. Its got a bit of fiber in it but it doesn’t have any off flavor at all.
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Shagri-la Mulberry. No killing frost this spring has resulted in heavy and early fruiting. April Mulberries, what a treat!
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I like the coffee cup in the shot. I wanted to add - that a hand in a shot gives a sense of scale. Helpful to know ‘just how big or small’ something is - in reference to some other identifiable object.
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Japanese Andromeda with new leaves red then turning green after a few weeks. Leaves have small white borders. White flowers.
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My 2 climax rabbiteyes…
Seedless concords
A wild wood flower… in the edge of the woods at our new home site.
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