I live in the mountains of NC and am right at the edge of the growing zone limit for pretty much every kind of blueberry. I’d like to try growing some Pink Popcorn blueberries, but I’ve only ever grown rabbiteye blueberries and would need to get a highbush pollinating buddy. From what I can gather Pink Popcorn blooms early, but I haven’t been able to find any recommended partners and while I could make an educated guess, I try to make everything as ideal as possible since I’m already pushing it with the grow zone. Does anyone have experience with Pinks and know what other highbush cultivars bloom around the same time? I had been looking at Spartan, Blueray, and Toro just as general options for highbush but if there’s a better fit I can get those.
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I grew pink lemonade and pink popcorn. The pink popcorn came diseased and dying from every nursery I bought from. I made a claim with One Green World about it and they claimed it did not have the resistance other varieties had and replaced it. Luckily when I tried it this was back in 2016-2018 period when plants were still cheap and shipping was more affordable.
It’s semantics, but words have meaning… Pollinators are the creatures that carry pollen from flower to flower and carry out pollenation.
Your query is for an appropriate pollenizer.