I would really like to have this blueberry variety. It was recommended to me.
I feel like we are in a good location for blueberries.
We haven’t really gotten a lot of blueberries because we did not protect our plants and then wildlife muched them down and so then we did protect them and now they’ve grown back but there’s a lot of thin branches mixed with hardy branches and I know I need to fix that with pruning. They look great though, super healthy, and so we’ve been raising blueberry plants for about three years.
I looked for Spartan because it was recommended to me and I purchased a plant from one green world and it arrived with crispy leaves. Understand that I’m northern California near the Oregon border and they’re in Oregon so the transit time wasn’t that long.
I had also gotten a fig that had crispy leaves from them, but it recovered, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt on the blueberry, but it just never recovered and kept going downhill and because of their 10 day warranty I’m out 30 bucks - keep in mind I live in California and our total monthly income is about $3000 so we’re dirt poor (but soil rich). My registration last year on a Subaru was almost $800!!!
Still, I’m determined to grow our own food. And hopefully have some for the locals at a good price too, someday.
Because of that loss, I bought some Spartan blueberry plants on Etsy and they arrived today. I just wanted to share pictures of the leaves to make sure this isn’t some sort of problem that I should isolate them from my other blueberry plants for a bit and maybe that I should spray them? The stalks are green and the roots look great but there’s rust color on the leaves that I don’t have in my current blueberry plants and I don’t want any cross-contamination, but I would be happy to care for these plants and fix whatever problem they have if I am able to
Please let me know if this looks like a problem, and if so, how should I handle it so that these plants do well for me?
Thank you!
As far as one green world, the second fig plant I got from them had lemon yellow leaves (I kid you not) which I think is probably nitrogen deficiency? So for over the last month, it has spent all of its time greening up its leaves rather than progressing and I just think if you’re going to have a 10 day warranty, then you should send people uncompromised plants - otherwise that really doesn’t seem fair to me.
What am I supposed to say, I’m sorry it took longer than 10 days for your plant to look completely dead? You sent it to me on its way out and that’s just not OK if your warranty is only 10 days.
