This cultivar is Eisbär, in my opinion it is not that great, the fruit has a bitter aftertaste. Not terrible, but Aurora I prefer.
I think the bird appreciates them much more than I do. She picks them off with her beak, and swallows them whole. The berry is bigger than her brain! I don’t know how she can swallow it whole like that 
even though Maine grows great blueberries, i still like my honeyberries. i get the best of both worlds. i now have 8 bushes of each.
I grow both honeyberries and blueberries.
Last year I had ripe honeyberries in early June.
Picture from June 13, 2024:
Nothing else produces berries for me that early in the season.
That’s the best reason to grow them.
Blueberries here are not ripe until July-August.
Add in that they are easy to grow, and that they IMO have a nice taste 
, then the decision is simple.
I recently got 6 honeyberries after a friend gave me some jam. I ate two whole jars while I was visiting her, didn’t even put it on anything.
Ended up with: Indigo Gem, Tundra, Aurora, Blizzard, Beast, and Beauty. I had to make room for them and put three on the other side of my fence, hopefully the critters leave those alone. They’re in a partial sun location, I figured that’d be ideal since I’m in z6.
I just had some ripe Honeyberries at restoring eden in their greenhouse 
They’re okay…
checked mine today and all but the 2 strawberry sensations are in full bloom. maixe solo is just starting.
I’m in 7a and just netted my honeyberries, as they are done blooming. Now to protect them from the critters.
I had three bushes, my original Tundra and Indigo Gem, of which one died this winter (no idea which), and an Aurora. There may or may not be a Maxie Solo in there from a rooted plug that I planted idiotically close to the others. The first two bushes didn’t grow much in the first two years, so I underestimated their space needs.
I don’t think I’ll be replacing the dead one. Having to wait for two weeks after the fruit is already blue with this much pest pressure is so stressful. But the foliage is gorgeous, and if I manage to eat some of the fruit this year, I may give in and plant two more.
All my blueberries are in pots, so I can bring them into my teeny tiny greenhouse to protect them while the fruit is ripening.
My honeyberries are starting to color up, so I’m finally biting the bullet and trying to do some netting this year. I need to tackle the volunteer blackberries around them a bit first.
But while I was out there, I see that there are more haskap plants than I started with. I see a nice looking clean young growth shoot maybe a foot or 2 from the crown of one of my 10+ year plants.
I don’t know how much they sucker if at all. I’m wondering, is it likely a seedling or a sucker?
I have 2 each of 5 different selections. So I’m curious is this is specimen number 3 of one of them, or if it potentially different. I think the plants are all related to each other anyway.
I should have taken a picture. Maybe I’ll add one later.
Mine have never suckered. I would guess yours is from seed.
Probably a seedling.
That’s what I was thinking too.
I got the net up on Sunday for the first time. I used 8’ T-posts and 3/4" EMT to give it something to rest on.
The netting is 30x30, I think from a link Alan posted, bigger than I needed, I could fit a couple more under.
Perhaps I’ll be able to harvest enough to make a pint of jam!
I have some 8 mil white/black plastic on the way. I’m thinking of mulching with it white side up since these guys like to drop when they are ripe.
I’m mainly planning to use it black side up for watermelons but am getting more than I need.
So far no trapped or dead birds in there!
knock on wood, i havent needed to net my 8 bushes yet. other than 1 year of the crows landing in the bushes, i havent had any bird issues with any of my berries. i might get a peck here and there but thats it.
Mine were safe from the birds the first few years, but once they caught on that was it.
I didn’t set mine up to be easy to get in and out. I should probably harvest them all this coming weekend.
The mesh is just big enough to work a berry through, so I’ve managed to sample a few:
I do. It’s 337 pages, lidia gave it to me, she lives near me. Do you guys need it here? I have the PDF.
oh nvm I see you said you do have it later in the posts lol
blue banana, blue typhoon, giants heart and some others don’t really need sugar, they’re sweeter than blueberries
now you went and done it! which of those would you recommend for taste and production and where did you buy them? like i need another honeyberry.
One of my new honeyberries had a few almost ripe berries on it that I was excited to try. I thought I’d be dealing with pests like birds and bugs, not my own dang dog. Stripped that bush and a blueberry just before they were perfect. She’s been ignoring my plants for months, now she’s suddenly very interested in them and inspects all 100+ of them daily 
My dog will help herself to my blackberries. Luckily it’s loaded and she’s got nothing on the 1 year old who demands you take her there, if I’m outside she’s just pointing to the berries the entire time. She isn’t picky either, black, red or green she’s willing to give them all a go haha
Got them from berries unlimited, this company/website is from Lidia that was one of the ones that brought the plants to north america farming / attention.
Here is their book if anyone wants to read it, this link was emailed to me years ago? definitely more than 1 year… and still works so just gonna post it here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rb5b0z8ftUt2TZ2k1lEEYq-54hxOI5Kv/view?usp=drive_web
as far as which to grow there are 2 sets of 2 (to pollinate each other) that I think are the best, they are the highest brix (sugar) of any of them.
blue banana & honey beast are both russian types that will pollinate each other
blue typhoon & giant’s heart are both japanese that will pollinate each other
lol, on the berries unlimited website it has some stuff you can read about them but it doesn’t really help you taste it 
some other sites talk about them too as far as I know she’s the creator & main breeder of them though
Lidia said and I quote:
Honey Beast and Blue Banana are the sweetest honeyberries ( and the most delicious) in the world. Brix up to 24. Aurora is also very delicious. Brix is up to 17.
