I’ve got 7 blueberry plants I started last summer. All in pots using a peat/bark mix. Four in 14" pots and the rest in 1gal pots (ran out of the bigger ones).
I have them in a circle of 4’ wire fencing, which I think will keep the deer off them, but will allow smaller rodents in. Anyhow something has been eating branches off these plants. moreso the ones in the 1gal containers. It almost looks as though someone came thru and make a clean 45 deg cut with a pruning shears on the stems. None of the rough edges that I would expect to see with most critters. No remnants either, except for one branch which was left on the ground.
I can’t figure out what animal is responsible for this damage. There is snow on the ground, so I should see tracks but there really weren’t any to speak of. A few rabbit tracks nearby but not up close enough to reach the blueberries. Perhaps mice or the like, but I did not thing they would cut of a branch so cleanly.
Anyone have any ideas of what critter is doing this damage?