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Post by isabella on Apr 20, 2011 18:40:53 GMT
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Post by chickengirl on Apr 20, 2011 19:46:07 GMT
Wow Isabella!! That's impressive, please tell me your secret!! My eldest boy loves blueberries and we have just planted another attempt at growing them!
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Post by carolann on Apr 21, 2011 8:03:22 GMT
Lovely Pam mine are only small plants but have a few flowers on. Chickengirl welcome to the boards I was watching an old gardeners world the other day and Monty said to plant in Ericasious soil so I went and got a bag from the GC and have spread and dug it in around the plants so fingers crossed.
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Post by chickengirl on Apr 21, 2011 18:40:49 GMT
Thanks Carolann, I will get some and do the same I like Monty, always has interesting ideas
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Apr 21, 2011 19:22:09 GMT
cor....how old is the plant Pam? and how do you prune it?.....my OH set to with the secateurs (I was out) and I have three twigs in the garden now...
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 22, 2011 4:21:52 GMT
That's a fab looking bush Isabella, I wonder how old it is. Is it in a pot then?
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Post by isabella on Apr 22, 2011 4:51:33 GMT
Thanks Everyone i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif I have 2 pots with blueberries in - they are about 5 years old now.I planted them into ericaceous compost and repotted them every other year.I don't prune them apart from taking out any dead stuff and keep them well watered. The plants are 'Bluecrop' which is supposed to be self fertile - I do have 3 other blueberries planted in the garden but they don't look as good as the ones in pots .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2011 19:15:49 GMT
Make sure you protect your blueberries from birds when they start to ripen or you'll end up with nothing !!!
I have plenty of flowers on mine this year too.
FA x
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Post by chickengirl on May 5, 2011 17:43:56 GMT
I dream of the day that I have enough fruit to protect FA!!
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Post by Barbara on May 5, 2011 19:31:41 GMT
I dream of the day that I have enough fruit to protect FA!! one day CG.
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Post by francegarden on May 6, 2011 7:27:53 GMT
I planted 2 in pots of ericaceous compost about 5 years ago. I feed them with equestrene (spelling looks odd) - very occasionally - and usually have a good crop, but NO flowers at all this year. They look very healthy, so don't know why they have not flowered. Sad - as that means no fruit, I suppose, unless they wake up soon. No flowers on my goji berry plants either, come to think of it, though all the flowering trees - cherries, etc. flowered like mad, so will have to console myself with walking out into the garden in the mornings and eating cherries straight off the tree. Sad.
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gila
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Post by gila on May 24, 2011 7:49:16 GMT
france,
maybe you did not observe proper pruning with your berries... during the first year of fruiting do prune the buds and spuns of your berries to enable it to grow a more sturdy and fruitful set of buds. of course blueberries prune no their own, well if you let your berries do it on their own chances are low of having fruits the next harvest season.
the idea why prune it is to control the allocation of minerals to the buds. the less buds to supply the less job to do. another factor maybe of how you grow your berries during the first month.
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