My Edible Fruit Trees: Blueberry Trees VIC

Blueberry

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

blueberry

Planted: 2009

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 50

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

We are creating two blueberry lanes of varies types.

Organic Status:Certified

Blueberry (Cutting)

Comments: -

cant remember the variety

Growing: In a Pot

Blueberry - Brigitta

Planted: 2010

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow manure

Blueberry - Dennis ^8/10

Comments: - I purchased this variety without releasing it. I thought it was one of the other blueberry varieties I grow at home. I was told by my obsessed Blueberry-lover friend that this variety bares very large fruit with excellent flavours but unfortuantely they don't have a long shelf life and must be eaten within a day. So far it is doing great in a 50cm pot.

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Highbush (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

Planted in my front garden bed which is west facing two years ago, so it gets plenty of sun.  Still a young seedling and is doing ok but hasn't grown as much as I would have liked.  Last year got some fruit, this year nothing because I pruned it back hard in winter to shape it.  I seasoled a month ago.

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Northland (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: -

I saw this variety at the nursery last year. I purchased 2 small plants. This variety is a relatively fast grower. Gave me heaps of flowers last year but I had to remove all the flowers because of transplanting.

I grow them in the same acidic soil mix of peat, potting mix, manure and pine bark as I used on the other acid loving plants in my garden. I have also added an addition of sulphur to the mix to make sure it stays aciddic. I have tested the soil since, and it is still good.

I am seeing a lot of new flower buds emerging from the plants this year.

Planted: 2011

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure, sulphur potash, trace mineral, powerfeed, slow release fertiliser

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Blueberry - Northland

BLUEBERRY - REVEILLE (Seedling)

Comments: - Purchased August 2009

Blueberry Bluerose (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: -

Bought at Wantirna market barerooted for $35 in July 2009. The bush has been doing very well. I used 50% of peat and 50% of soil as growing medium.

This one and a smaller one had desease so I quickly bined it. I still have had 3 small ones in my garden.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 6

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Will net when fruits are about to change colour

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry Denise ^5/10

Comments: -

One of two that we planted - the other was Brigitte, but the latter carked it, unfortunately.  It struggles due to the slight alkalinity of the orchard bed, but I feed it azalea food, some weak vinegar-water solution and sulphate of ammonia at different times of the year to improve its living conditions.

The flowers are a delicate pink-white, very pretty.  The leaves turn gorgeous golds and reds in autumn, and they are a lovely soft green in spring and summer.  The stems are a russet colour.  A very attractive plant.  It needs a lot of water, which we can't always supply due to the bloody drought and the water restrictions, but it is shaded from the worst of the summer sun by the deciduous trees in the bed.

Once I've got a few more things in the garden sorted out, I will obtain more blueberry plants.  Our cool to cold winters mean we can grow the high- and moderate-chill varieties, which tend to be sweeter.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2007

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 2% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None, except for alkaline soil tendencies.

Organic Status:Organic

blueberry- climax ^9/10

Comments: -

I bought this from Daleys. All their plants arrive in great condition and are very healthy.

I think my blueberry would like a more acidic soil than I have given it, but it is bearing fruit this year for the first time. Which is very exciting!  I keep going into the garden to look at the little ripening berries.

Disterigma alaternoides Neotropical Blueberry

Comments: -

Disterigma alaternoides

- a  Neotropical Blueberry

Originates from higher elevations in Central and South America. The fruits are sometimes sold in markets in Ecuador. Grows into a bush up to a few metres high so would probably make a good hedge. My plants have not yet fruited but expect they may take another year or two before fully mature.

Planted: 2017

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Blueberry - Backyard Blue ^6/10

Blueberry - Blue Rose

Blueberry - Blue Rose (Cutting)

Comments: -

This is a NELLY KELLY blueberry bush- not BLUE ROSE as described.Such a pretty little bush- full of pink bell shaped flowers. Easy to look after. Produced first crop of blueberries last summer- probably harvested a punnet full.

Fruiting Months January, February, November, December

Height 45 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 30 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 7 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol

When I Fertilise: Yearly and Spring

Pest Control:

None

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Should I move to a larger pot next winter?

Blueberry - Blue Rose (Cutting) ^6/10

Fruiting Months January, February, December

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Blueberry - Blue Rose ^10/10

Comments: -

I just love blueberries, the Blue Rose was recommended to me by a friend. I have one that is 40cm high and is currently propagating 12 plants from cuttings taken from my friend's mature plant.

They are great fruiters and the flavors are sweet. I have mine in 50cm pot right now and it is doing well. I use peat coir, pine mulch and garden soil as potting mix with extra pea mulch on top.

Fruiting Months January, October, November, December

Height 1.1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: Just birds. I have my fruits conceal in mesh bags once the berries burn blue.

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Blue Rose

Blueberry - Blue Rose (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - I already had an early season blueberry bush so why not a mid season one? The blue rose has been repotted into an Azalea mix and has begun to flower right after breaking dormancy. It seems to produce flowers first before leaves?  It has since produced clusters and clusters of white bell shaped flowers. I am currently hand pollinating with a narrow hobbyist painter's brush and this technique worked really well with the sunshine blues. Its supposed to grow up to 1.5m high and wide and is currently in a 300mm pot. I till be up potted to a half wine barrel next winter when its dormant. I'll update of growth progress and fruit quality.

Planted: 2016

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Hand Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter, nitrosol

Blueberry - Brightwell

Planted: 2009

Height 35 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: organic

Pest Control:

non so far

Organic Status:Organic

Blueberry - Burst (PBR) (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - Big fruit and very tasty.

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Doesn't need much, I use some cow manure and compost.

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Blueberry - Climax

Blueberry - Denise

Blueberry - Denise (Cutting) ^7/10

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter

Blueberry - Misty

Pollination: No

Blueberry - Sharpblue ^7/10

Comments: -

Panted out in garden over winter - have high hopes!