Garden Thread

[Papi Chingon]

Was it bulb shaped? Or look like a horizontal root structure?


I know that my 7 front yard plants are nearly a row in parts due to underground spreading

Cylindrical root ball and crown at the top. I tore the root ball in half, spread it out, and laid it into a shallow trench, then backfilled and watered. It said bulb, so I thought that was what the crown was called with blueberries since it was on the receipts.

 

[Rambo John J]

They are both just little sticks with buds just sprouting out. They are coming out of dormancy and are obviously young canes, but I have no idea on age. Hoping for some berries in July, but not expecting much.

Age is = Root sprout

I do have hope for them surviving and growing into a bush

Berries on a first year blueberry is almost unheard of FYI

I have maintained blueberry bushes for almost 35 years...it is a slow build that doesn't produce until a few years in

 

[Papi Chingon]

Age is = Root sprout

I do have hope for them surviving and growing into a bush

Berries on a first year blueberry is almost unheard of FYI

I have maintained blueberry bushes for almost 35 years...it is a slow build that doesn't produce until a few years in

I figured it would be somewhat similar to my raspberry anne, where the first year I got maybe two handfuls of berries grand total, but then the following year I was actually getting decent yield. Hoping this year that yellow anne throws out bowls of berries.

 

[Rambo John J]

Cylindrical root ball and crown at the top. I tore the root ball in half, spread it out, and laid it into a shallow trench, then backfilled and watered. It said bulb, so I thought that was what the crown was called with blueberries since it was on the receipts.

They are pretty tough

I think the root survives as long as the transplant soil isn't too far off from what was occupying

I will say if you want berries this year or next year or the year after start with a larger plant with year or two year old shoots.

I figured it would be somewhat similar to my raspberry anne, where the first year I got maybe two handfuls of berries grand total, but then the following year I was actually getting decent yield. Hoping this year that yellow anne throws out bowls of berries.

Yep, you got it

Rasberry(blackberry, Logan berry, marionberry, chesterberry, etc...) is 100% a bi-annual cane, fruit second year then that cane dies...rinse/repeat...the yearly growth won't bear fruit first year, second year will be all berries...so you cut them a few months after producing their berries, they will die off afterwards

Blueberry cane can produce berries for many many years though, don't cut them after the second year fruiting, as they have much life left in them...my current bushes are 15 + years old and some canes may be 10+ years old and producing heavy

 

[Papi Chingon]

They are pretty tough

I think the root survives as long as the transplant soil isn't too far off from what was occupying

I will say if you want berries this year or next year or the year after start with a larger plant with year or two year old shoots.

Yep, you got it

Rasberry(blackberry, Logan berry, marionberry, chesterberry, etc...) is 100% a bi-annual cane, fruit second year then that cane dies...rinse/repeat...the yearly growth won't bear fruit first year, second year will be all berries...so you cut them a few months after producing their berries, they will die off afterwards

Blueberry cane can produce berries for many many years though, don't cut them after the second year fruiting, as they have much life left in them...my current bushes are 15 + years old and some canes may be 10+ years old and producing heavy

Will you just come over here and sort this shit out?

 

[Rambo John J]

Will you just come over here and sort this shit out?

I don't mean to be like that, just trying to share my experience.
I honestly think you are doing amazing, very jealous of your garden growings.

 

[Papi Chingon]

I don't mean to be like that, just trying to share my experience.
I honestly think you are doing amazing, very jealous of your garden growings.

I'm going to have the last laugh when I have pounds of blueberries this July, asshole!

 

[Rambo John J]

I'm going to have the last laugh when I have pounds of blueberries this July, asshole!

LOL brother, I am so tired of blueberries

Spoiler

5 weeks per year my lady is picking blueberries
She probably eats 30 lbs and freezes 100 lbs over those 5 weeks
Takes up half the freezer(full size vertical freezer)
Ridiculous

I do know how to grow em, but I hate harvesting them

 

[Papi Chingon]

LOL brother, I am so tired of blueberries

Spoiler

5 weeks per year my lady is picking blueberries
She probably eats 30 lbs and freezes 100 lbs over those 5 weeks
Takes up half the freezer(full size vertical freezer)
Ridiculous

I do know how to grow em, but I hate harvesting them

I won't have that issue EVER, since I'm growing in pots. I did have a really good year with strawberries 2 years ago. My biggest issue is watering so for the first time I'm doing a somewhat deep layer of wood chip mulch hoping that it helps a bit. I've been filling my pots too far up with soil when planting, thinking that root depth was key, but I'm realizing that sometimes watering daily during peak production is just ridiculous (I hand water). We'll see what 2" of mulch will do, but I'm also a bit nervous about crown rot so I really need to pay attention to that.

 

[Papi Chingon]

I got the albion bare root strawberries all set up.

And I found a temporary home for my peppers.

 

[Rambo John J]

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I got the albion bare root strawberries all set up.
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And I found a temporary home for my peppers.

Those strawberries are "reaching" they want more light...probably the peppers as well
Not sure what type of near full light spots you have on your property

 

[Papi Chingon]

Those strawberries are "reaching" they want more light...probably the peppers as well
Not sure what type of near full light spots you have on your property

The photo was just taken at 5:22PM and the house is now shading the area. It gets plenty of light throughout the day until maybe 4:30ish.

 

[Papi Chingon]

 

[Papi Chingon]

Today's haul out of one whiskey barrel planters.

 

[Papi Chingon]

I just ordered the following trees:
red gold nectarine
flavortop nactarine
shiro plumb
santa rosa plumb
bearss lime
meyer lemon

My bareroot albion strawberry plants were a disaster. Out of 20+ only one was alive. What a waste of a month. Now I've got to dig up the roots and return them for a refund. This is the second time I've had experience with bareroot strawberry plants and the second time I was unsuccessful. I doubt this is user error since I didn't bury the crowns. Anyone have good experience with bareroot strawberries?

 

[Papi Chingon]

My blackberries have some good fruit sets.


And my pink lemonade blueberry plants are about to give me pounds and pounds of blueberries in a couple of months.

 

[Rambo John J]

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My blackberries have some good fruit sets.
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And my pink lemonade blueberry plants are about to give me pounds and pounds of blueberries in a couple of months.

those Blue berries will not give pounds for a couple years IMO

Good looking blackberry crop

 

[Papi Chingon]

those Blue berries will not give pounds for a couple years IMO

Good looking blackberry crop

you already told me that. i was being facetious based on our previous dialog.

 

[Rambo John J]

you already told me that. i was being facetious based on our previous dialog.

haha
ok I will hush up

 

[Papi Chingon]

I'm going to have the last laugh when I have pounds of blueberries this July, asshole!

@Rambo John J

 

[Homeslice]

Those strawberries are "reaching" they want more light...probably the peppers as well
Not sure what type of near full light spots you have on your property

LOL, yea, those are the tallest strawberry plants me eyes ever done seen. Down in my neck of the woods, they basically are squat on the ground, we got such good sun down here in Gawd's Land, Houston, Texas.

 

[Homeslice]

Hey Papi, for those Pink Lemonade blueberries, what do you do to make the soil acidic? Special acidic soil? Or just spread some sulfer shit on the dirt around the bush line? Or something else?

Same question for you Rambo, although I suspect you don't have Pink Lemonades on your 32 acres of nothing but blueberry bushes. Weird fuking fetish, man...

I had some Pink Lemonades, 3 of 4 died, but the remaining one seems to be doing good.

 

[Rambo John J]

Hey Papi, for those Pink Lemonade blueberries, what do you do to make the soil acidic? Special acidic soil? Or just spread some sulfer shit on the dirt around the bush line? Or something else?

Same question for you Rambo, although I suspect you don't have Pink Lemonades on your 32 acres of nothing but blueberry bushes. Weird fuking fetish, man...

I had some Pink Lemonades, 3 of 4 died, but the remaining one seems to be doing good.

I have one large pink lemonade bush, given by a neighbor in a small pot. It is 4 feet tall and about 3.5 foot wide. Matures later in the season, love the berries, they are good even when not fully pink. I have a feeling they aren't as high in the antioxidants and all that as the other strains of blue blue berries.

As for fertilizing I think you should just toss some around the width of the root structure 4-8 times per year.
I use this product but there are many like it, mainly pay attention to the 4-3-6 part

It produces higher yield, quality yield, and makes for a Strong Plant
Water it in or let the rain do it's thing, if soil is very compact then rough up the top inch or so.
We also mulch our chicken shit pine chips from the chicken coop on the blueberries

 

[Homeslice]

Nice Rambo, thanks. Dem Blueberries like their potassium! So you don't put anything in the soil, or use some special soil, you just sprinkle that around where all you think their roots are, maybe once every 1.5 to 3 months, that sort of thing? I'm gonna guess since that is slow release I can use a good bit without worrying about it burning the plants.

Thanks!

 

[Homeslice]

Hey Rambo, do you think I can feed my blueberries with juice from Methane Mac? Diluted of course. I've been pretty apprehensive about it. But I read that teas fermented anaerobically are actually acidic, so maybe the perfect thing for blueberries?