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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: caroline7758 on May 19, 2007, 18:17:01

Title: What happened to my blueberries?
Post by: caroline7758 on May 19, 2007, 18:17:01
I have two blueberry bushes. One was flowering nicelt, but in the last weeks the berries which were forming have dried up & dropped off. :'( Do you think they were too dry- or too wet? The second bush is now flowering and I don't want the same thing to happen.
Title: Re: What happened to my blueberries?
Post by: Georgie on May 19, 2007, 19:47:29
I'm not sure Caroline it might be either or could they have caught a bit of frost?  I killed the only blueberry bush I tried to grow but that was in the days when I didn't realise they are lime haters. Could that be an issue?

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Title: Re: What happened to my blueberries?
Post by: oubykh on May 19, 2007, 21:28:30
i have one fruiting up nicely while the other is doing nothing despite them both being mid season ones. no idea why???   





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Title: Re: What happened to my blueberries?
Post by: jennym on May 19, 2007, 21:45:08
Like many plants and animals, your blueberry bushes need to be of a certain age before they can reproduce, for blueberries, I'd guess it's probably around 3 years old. So, if one bush was sllightly older than the other when you bought them, this would be the explanation - one is old enough to reproduce, one is too young.
Title: Re: What happened to my blueberries?
Post by: caroline7758 on May 20, 2007, 09:15:12
The plant which has failed did produce fruit last year, though the birds got most of it! Don't think we've had frost recently, and it's in a pot of ericaceous compost and I water it with rainwater.