r/Blueberries

Hi, we're completely new to this, and seem to be struggling. These two were planted in December, and did good producing lots of berries. In the past week or two they rapidly went south.

We're in southern Louisiana, and it's been 32C/90F pretty much everyday for weeks.

Is it just lack of water, or something else?

Please help!

This was thriving earlier in the year and producing a lot of fruit. What might I have done wrong and how can I help it?

It's not been fertilised. It was underwatered whilst we were on holiday for a week. Soil is moist, not soggy now.

It is sprouting new growth right at the base of the trunk.

Thank you.

We bought a house last year with 8-10 well established old bushes. The ones in the far bed are doing mostly okay (and are taller than me!) but the ones in the front bed have obvious chlorosis. I’m not US based and don’t have access to a reliable pH test. I added sulphur pellets but obviously they need more. I have sphagnum peat moss, I’m wondering if I could just add a few cm to the top of the beds? I know it needs to be soaked first. All advice I see online is for starting new beds, not ones that are 10+ years old.

I went to my friends house for a week. A single week. I left my brand new blueberry bush in the care of my grandma.. big mistake.. because I came back to this. I left it with brand new growth and it was a beautiful green but now it’s brown and crunchy. I’m hoping I can salvage it, anyone know what happened to it? Or what I can do to maybe revive it? If not will it come back next year or do I need a brand new one? My mom repotted it and said it might be over watered?

btw.. this is my first ever blueberry bush. I don’t know if I need to do something special to it? I heard it needs different soil then usual and I got a berry blend for it but does it need other things? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much!

These are probably the two extremes in the blueberry world. The first historic cultivar with tiny "dry" berries and the modern juicy giant.

My pics show the random sizes, I didn't cherry pick for the very biggest and the tiniest.

I do think that Rubel is overrated in the modern garden. I keep it as a piece of history to show guests where it all began, but I don't find the berries very enjoyable. I don't get the "intense flavor"...

Bonus is a giant, and surprisingly, it tastes great too. It's one of my favorites, even though I was very skeptical about that massive size. I just couldn't believe they didn't sacrifice the taste.

What do you think of these two?

Same bush- a Patriot newly planted in the Midwest this year. First pics are about a month ago and last few with the red leaves are now. Once the rain stops, I was thinking of treating with copper fungicide and adding ammonium sulfate to the soil. I had pH tested and it is too high. I did amend the soil with peat moss and pine bark fines when I planted but maybe I didn’t do it correctly.

I’m going to add elemental sulfur to the soil in the fall but hoping I can do something faster acting like ammonium sulfate now and still add the sulfur later. The pH is 7 outside that ring of amended soil. (I know, I jumped the gun.)

Is all of this too stressful at once?

1. Ammonium sulfate (now)
2. Copper fungicide (whenever it stops raining)
3. Elemental sulfur (End of September/early October)

Apparently this branch didn’t get the memo

Hi! I scrolled back a ways in this sub and don’t see any images of leaves that look quite like this. What is happening to my plants?

This is my first year with blueberry plants. I have three plants of different varieties, all planted in pots with “acid loving plants and berries” soil. Got a good amount of berries off them for being such small plants (can’t take credit, the berries were there when I bought the plants lol) and now the leaves have started doing… this. All three of my plants are experiencing this to some degree.

Zone 5b. It’s been quite hot here (many days of 25+ C/75+ F) and we’ve had a LOT of rain over the past 6 weeks or so. July was the wettest month ever recorded for my city. Waiting on a soil test kit to arrive but I’m stressing that my plants are going to die after only one season!

I have a Duke and a BlueRay. Planted in coco coir, Pearlite, and pine park. Soil acidifier added per packaging also. Full sun. Did hit two droughts where they were stressed.

What’s going on with them?? Too much sun?

Hello, I am in zone 6b, I planted these low bushes in April of this year. In a soil mix of 40% peat moss, 40% existing soil, 20% coco bark mulch fines.

I added sulfur to the existing soil that I mixed in, in the ratio recommended on sulfur bag. Once I mixed in sulfur I added the other two components.

One bush is pumping vegetative growth, while the other is attempting to fruit. The one with few leaves had hundreds of blooms post planting, and lots of fruit set- but the growth was extremely stalled and the berries never properly ripened. Should I cut the berries off the struggling bush?

Bought in May this year, planned to repotted it soon afterwards, but got delayed since I don't have proper soil mix for it at the time, and then I planned to repot it maybe after I eat all the berries. It really surprised me in a good way this year with a big harvest and doubling growth. Definitely will repot it soon in few weeks since I have everything ready for it now.

This is my middle blueberry bush.

I posted the first photo 2 days ago and asked about the far left maybe having a fungal and I added acid to my soil...

And then today I came out and my middle bush looks like this 😭

Tell me it's maybe the acid not fire blight but dang they are dying fast