I purchased some boreal series honeyberries last fall. 2/3 of them really bushed out. The third one pictured below is growing very well but its growing as a single leader. I much prefer the bush form, any ideas how to prune it in order to force it to bush out or will this happen eventually on its own?
Thanks!
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Honeyberry bushes will send up shoots from the base when it is ready to.
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If it doesn’t send up more shoots this summer cut it close to the ground in the fall and then it should send up multiple shoots in the spring.
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You have absolutely nothing to worry about. Of all the haskaps borealis puts out ridiculous amounts of foliage. It is the only haskap that I don’t need to net because not even the Robins can find the fruit in that mess of leaves. Let it be, it will soon enough go all over the place.
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Thank you! But there may have been a small miscommunication. My honeyberries are the boreal series (beast, beauty and blizzard), not borealis. But this makes me want to get a borealis as well!
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If you are looking for an ornamental bush that will not bother you with much of a crop and force you to work for what little is there it would certainly work…
I keep mine because I propagate and sell them and they make better specimen plants than berry producers. Some people are actually just looking for a pretty bush.
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You are exactly right. Been 40 years since the book “Edible Landscaping” by Creasy.