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Cross pollination of blueberry bushes
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Posted by spuddiesel 5A (My Page) on Sat, Oct 17, 09 at 1:01
| After listening/reading to Lee Reich on Mike McGrath's You Bet Your Garden talk about using blueberry bushes as edible landscaping I decided to look into planting 3 Elliot blueberry bushes. Looking into it more I discovered another variety is needed for ideal fruit development via cross pollination.
I have a few questions about the cross pollination.
1. How close do they have to be? (I have a quarter acre)
2. Do you need a 1:1 ratio? Due to their size I was planning on planting 3 Elliot bushes adjacent to my garage because of their ornamental properties and was thinking of plant 1 plant of another variety in a less visible location. Is the 1 plant enough? Or do I need 3 plants of another variety adjacent to these 3 bushes to achieve the cross pollination benefit?
Thanks in advance for anyone's input! |
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RE: Cross pollination of blueberry bushes
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| You will get berries regardless of weather you have another variety or not! but, you will get MORE berries with another pollinator close by, Why plant just three late berries , when you could plant one early, one mid, and one late variety, plants should be about 5-6 ft apart, you do not need a one on one ratio, but I would at least put the other one in the middle of the other two. |
RE: Cross pollination of blueberry bushes
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| muddflapper is correct. You will get more and larger berries if you have a pollinator. I think you would be better to have an early, middle, and late producer so you don't have one huge crop all at once towards the end of the season. Why not have a steady supply of berries all season long? |
RE: Cross pollination of blueberry bushes
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- Posted by ga.karen 8 a/b Moultrie, Ga. (My Page) on
Sat, Oct 31, 09 at 17:05
| Just be aware that with having different varieties that produce at different times...they also bloom at different times & may not cross pollinate. I have wild ones that I dug out of our woods & tame ones I bought (no idea of variety) but my wild ones are already setting berries by the time the tame ones bloom. |
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