and here they are. i think they are Spartan and Patriot.. . two late varieties just broke bud, and two Sweetcrips should be here tomorrow.. woohoo!

 

 

Very nice Pete! The top of that soil looks bone dry! Fill that pot to the top with pine bark mulch to retain that moisture. Blues dont need it, they require it!

Nice i was thinking about a blueberry plant in a pot to try but lots
of things on our plate nowadays.

Blueberries can be as addictive as figs:)   Have about 200 bushes.  The perlite is not needed Pete and unlike figs you can put a small plant in a big pot, it helps to keep them moist.  

Dont forget some netting eventually or birds will eat every single berry and then a few days later theyll thank you by turning everything purple

I have very few bird problems..an occasional crow and the resident cardinals that are welcome to a few berries.  There are many blueberry farms near me though and why pick on my 200 bushes when they can feast where there are 10,000 bushes.  

2 Sweetcrisp came in. it's tall, but I can tell it's also very young. i'll give some water for tonight, repot and trim tomorrow. i'm surprised it's so tall...

wills, i'm still trying to figure out pot situation. i'm not finding any pots i really like. i still looking for the right pot for all the figs and now bb.

I'm going outside right now for the first major BB picking of the season.

Depending on your area, the birds can do some damage. I have 50 producing plants now - more than enough to share. I've tried bird netting, but here snakes get caught up in it. I'd rather share with the birds...

i can't afford snake around my house. my wife can't stand them. i'll have to relocate or kill every one of em around my house.

Blueberries in my subdivision and partially wild ones elsewheres produce more berries than birds, etc, are willing to consume.

They are also strong landscape elements for fall color.  Very easy and productive plant to grow in the South, I suppose.

That's so sad... they (snakes) do so much good. I don't much like coming across them in the garden, but they take care of lots of plant-harming vermin - gophers, rabbits, ground squirrels, mice, rats...

Just came in with the first container of blueberries. It was so nice and warm in the sun picking... :)

two that came in today. 

 

May wet myself if i came up on a snake unexpectedly.

Pete,

This will be your reward next year, Sweetcrisp fruit:)

looking forward to it :) 

Pete, Sweetcrisp are very skinny and lanky growers. All those really long skinny branches will either need to be supported with sticks and string or cut way back. A good wind storm can cause havoc on really thin branched cultivars like Sweetcrisp. Ive got a couple young ones, 2 year plants, and to shape them Im tipping new growth at 4 to 6 inches. It really slows the growth down and it forces branching. Anything to slow down sweetcrisp is a plus. The plant grows really fast and Ive noticed when tipping sweetcrisp only some will branch while others send out one shoot and keep growing. By tipping early and often you get more fruit, shorter stronger branches and a more compact plant. If you adopt this approach, try to pinch new growth to outward or up ward facing leaf node. Sweetcrisp tends to have a very spralling growth habit which makes for a lot of cross branching on the interior of the plant. You dont want branches rubbing each other if possible. Sometimes its very hard to avoid with certain varieties.


Bam, nice fruit shot ;-)

bb,

i'll be chopping it down rather close to the soil. i want branching. i'll have to wait for some breaking in the weather. been raining since last might.

my tiny blueberry patch. 

 

I think what Blueboy is saying is don't let your Sweetcrisp end up looking like mine.  I need to get some pruning advice from Wills. 

 

need to find out where i can get some ammonium sulfate. not sure how dark the leaves need to be, but it doesn't look dark enough for me.

Ammonium sulfate is like crack for blueberries.  Just don't overdo it, especially in pots.  I killed one of my Sweetcrisps last year by feeding it to much AS.  

i heard half teaspoon in a gal of water a week will do the trick nicely.

Yep.  Wills finally got me on the right mixture.  I was using 1 tablespoon/2 gal before I learned the hard way. 

so.. here is the pix. do i need to give it acid treated water?