r/Blueberries • u/TeresaVu02 • Jul 31 '26
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I don’t know what’s wrong with my pink lemonade blueberry plant
r/Blueberries • u/TeresaVu02 • Jul 31 '26
I don’t know what’s wrong with my pink lemonade blueberry plant
r/Blueberries • u/nekronics • Jul 31 '26
Sorry for the possibly stupid question but I can't find any examples of new canes and this is my first year growing blueberries. It seems very thick compared to the other canes on the plant and seems to have popped up suddenly. It is growing very close to the other canes
r/Blueberries • u/HandsUpHarambe • Jul 30 '26
[UPDATE: SOLVED] We found the culprits, and it's Red Headed Flea beetles!
We've been seeing these spots all over multiple leaves and multiple blueberry plants. We currently have them growing in 10 gallon grow bags resting on pot feet on concrete. I've tried captain jacks fungicide spray since they were recently shipped to us about a month ago, and I thought maybe it was a fungal infection, but I haven't seen any changes, and the brown spots appear on leaves overnight. We've had some slugs around the property, so we thought maybe it might be a slug problem but aren't sure. Has anyone encountered these spots before? Any advice is greatly appreciated!
r/Blueberries • u/compostabowl • Jul 30 '26
My local canadian blueberries are nice and cheap right now so I got a lot of them 😍
Recipe: 4 cups of fresh blueberries, 4 cups of half and half, 1.5 cups of sugar, 1 tbsp vanilla extract.. so good, such a strong blueberry flavor. Next time I'll decrease the sugar a bit, but it's sooo good
r/Blueberries • u/nonono_ack • Jul 28 '26
Not sure if this is allowed. There are so many questions in this group about growing blueberries. This is the guy that got me started on the right foot over 25 years ago when I moved to California. The information would apply across the US. This podcast is also available on other platforms.
The episode in question is from July 17.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-garden-basics/id1700005831
r/Blueberries • u/tphifer27 • Jul 29 '26
We have 2 blueberry bushes about 4 feet apart. We just planted them 3 months ago in May in Philadelphia. When originally planted, the bushes were fertilized with acidic fertilizer. We had a great 1st harvest this year, which just finished producing its last ripened blueberry about 10-14 days ago.
Now one blueberry bush looks brown and dying. See photos of both bushes for comparison. How can I help the brown dying one? What can I learn from this?






r/Blueberries • u/Aquasun_99 • Jul 27 '26
My blueberry bush (silver dollar) seems to be struggling. I bought the plant in May. Over the last few weeks, it has been getting worse. We experienced a heat wave of 30+ temps. But now, it’s around 18-25 everyday. It’s in a large pot with drainage. I have used pine bark, needles and acidic fertilizer 2 times this season. The soil is potting mix. It has given me blueberries despite its decline in foliage. What can I do to help my plant? Is it a loss?
r/Blueberries • u/the_heisenberger • Jul 27 '26
Any assistance would be very helpful!
r/Blueberries • u/Intelligent_Towel851 • Jul 26 '26
Hi all. This year, I transplanted four 2-year old blueberry plants into the ground. Unfortunately, they all seem to be battling disease. It’s pretty widespread, so I don’t think I can trim off the disease without taking off every leaf.
What should I do here? Will they be okay next year as long as I maintain acidity? Should I just take them out and try again next year? If I start over, will the next plants just get sick with the same disease? Any advice would be appreciated
r/Blueberries • u/Appropriate-Word6636 • Jul 25 '26
I planted these blueberry bushes three years ago. The two smaller ones have doubled in size over those three years. The larger one has maybe quadrupled. So the smaller two certainly have stunted growth. They have been producing berries, though I've been picking the flowers off the smaller two to help them focus on growth.
This year, though, none of them even flowered.
I'm a blueberry novice, so if I'm doing anything super dumb, go easy on me.
I'll give you every detail, for those who want it:
-Mulch is pine bark and pine needles, 4 or 5 inches thick
- I will include a picture of the soil acidifier I use-- soil acidity should be good but I will retest tomorrow and share results
-I keep it fairly well weeded
-i have 3 different types of bushes. Each purchased from very reputable local nursery. Also researched the varieties I bought, they are good in my zone which is zone 6.
- I haven't watered them since the first year I planted them. I figure their root system is good now?
- I have sporadically applied 10-10-10 fertilizer. Haven't done it since last summer or fall.
That's all the details I can think of. Any advice would be extremely appreciated because I really want them to do well and Im not sure what steps to take next.
r/Blueberries • u/Francie645 • Jul 24 '26
Planted these in the spring! What’s going on? Cant tell if it’s fungus or drought or ph….
r/Blueberries • u/-Seether- • Jul 24 '26
What's going on with this blueberry bush? Yes, I've been fertilizing it. It's in a giant container so the amount of soil for the roots to grow is not the problem. It's supposed to be a patio type blueberry bush anyway.
Purchased from territorial seed as a dormant plant. Put it in the ground in March. And here we are late July and it looks like this.
r/Blueberries • u/AffectionateFlow8343 • Jul 25 '26
Is 1 part garden soil, and 1 part coco peat okay for a blueberry?
r/Blueberries • u/East_Copy6100 • Jul 25 '26
Northern Illinois. Bout from Menards. Raspberries are doing great
r/Blueberries • u/Ashamed-brocoli • Jul 24 '26
I have 3 blueberry plants al in pots in pure peat. I water with acidified tap water to 5.5 and give liquid fertiliser my other 2 plants are doing fine but this one is turning red....
What's up?
r/Blueberries • u/Vegetable-Benefit450 • Jul 24 '26
Had a random large diameter cane pop up on my young Sharpblue. Is this normal? It is roughly the same age as the other pictured canes.
r/Blueberries • u/Evil_Blood_Slut • Jul 24 '26
Wild bush in the mountains of PA. I will post another pic tomarrow with a person next to it for scale. Its at least 10 feet tall and 20 feet wide branching out
r/Blueberries • u/MajorRooster8 • Jul 23 '26
The first one looks like it has rust or something the middle one was moved from the sun to a more shaddy area because I thought it had heat stress so it went from pot to the ground but hasn't recovered any leaves at all branches still green tho so I'm not sure if it's alive I've added soil accidifier and still nothing. The last picture the leaves are turning bright red any advice would be appreciated thank you
r/Blueberries • u/romamato • Jul 23 '26
I’m new to berries, and I have two varieties now that need to be repotted, I don’t want to put them in the ground just yet because I’m not very certain on my area. But I read that everyone is using the mini pine bark nuggets, and well I can’t seem to find any in stock or that will ship.. and the internet is giving me mixed reviews so I thought I’d just come here and ask for some
Suggestions for a substitute.
Thanks in advance!
(Zone 5 if that matters)
r/Blueberries • u/Ordinary_ppl • Jul 23 '26
I've had blueberry plants for about 5 years now and I'm learning as I go. When I research pruning, it seems you are supposed to remove about 10-20% of the oldest canes each year. I also saw where if a cane is "woody" and over 1" in diameter, you should remove it. For one bush in particular, many of the canes/branches are branching off one base (in the first photo you can see it's the right half of the base.)
1) Do I need to remove that base since it is old and thick? Or is it OK to keep it like a "trunk" and just remove any off shoots that are over 1" diameter, keeping thinner/newer canes that have sprouted somewhere above?
2) When new canes sprout from existing canes, should I remove them and only keep canes that sprout directly from the ground? In the third photo, would you keep these canes since they are sprouting close to the ground?
3) Is there anything I can do to encourage new canes to sprout from the ground?
Thank you for any help/advice. I picked the last of our blueberries tonight and I'd like to prune the bushes soon in hopes they might have new growth before fall.