You know your getting older when?---your best YT 'entertainment' comes from gardening channels and you look forward to Sundays with 10X more landscaping plans than you can possibly achieve in a day.
Sorry to correct your Blueberry Video but the most important aspect of growing Blueberries is the PH of your soil. The Kellogg product that you used for your soil has a PH of 6.0-7.5. Blueberries have to have a PH of 4.5-5.5 in order to grow well and to produce fruit. You should have added some Sulphur to your soil mix and mixed 50% Spagnum Peat Moss to the Kellogg potting mix. The soil Acidifier that you added is a fertilizer and it takes too long to break down. Lastly, you need to do a PH test of the water that you use to water your plants. You might have to correct the PH of your water by adding white vinegar to it.
The best blueberry soil mix for containers for me is roughly, 30% ericaceous compost - 30% pine bark mulch - 40% peat moss, all mixed together, it makes a good airy organic compost with a PH of around 5 PH, then I water with rain water which is also around 5 PH. And I add (Elixir Gardens Bumper Crop Blueberry Special Fertiliser) 3-4 times a year, very good blueberry fert and very cheap for the amount you get... it has EVERYTHING blueberries need.
@@Yin-Yang-444, I have 8 Blueberry bushes so I make a 5 gallon bucket of water. I add 8-10 ounces of white vinegar per 5 gallons of city water. Our city water has a ph of 7. I always measure the ph before I pour onto the plants. My blueberries really jumped this year. Looking forward to 2023 crop.
I have been putting pine bark mulch at the bottom of my blueberry containers rather than stones for 20+ years, as it's slightly acidic, I also mix it in with my ericaceous soil and peat moss mix for the blueberries, my plants love it, never had any issues, pine bark makes good drainage and a good airy acidic soil mix.
Yes, I ordered & received the pine bark mulch & will be mixing it in with the soil. So, after watching Charles' video I will be getting large wide containers & do what you do - put some pine bark at the bottom along with mixing it in & topping the soil. This will be a much better way to plant our Blueberries besides with the coming war we could actually grab up those planters & bring them inside so they won't get fall-out on them. So glad I saw this video before I planted the Blueberries in the garden. Win - Win. Thank you. Judi
@@IVOrganic - What size container did you use to plant the blueberry bushes in? If you mentioned that in the video, I missed it. Thanks, I really learn from your videos and love how thoroughly you explain and use step-by-step directions.
Bravo! Thank you for a detailed and comprehensive tutorial on raising blueberries. I have gone through other TH-cam tutorials but yours is the best-- no stone left unturned! Merci beaucoup, muchas gracias. danken , bellisimo!!!
Another informative and educational video, Charles! That lecture with Tom is great! Thanks for sharing. Using the spray on my blueberries last year was they key to their success and making through 110 degree days for weeks on end. I just ordered two more cans as I’m adding four new bare root trees to my garden! Can’t wait to get it!
Thank you Charles for this video. We are in SW Arizona zone 9b & before watching your video had planned on planting the Blueberries in the garden - not now - will try to find planters like yours & place them 2" below the garden soil. But I will first put most of the soil mixtures in the pots with the sulfur - water it down & wait a couple of months for the microbes to work together to acidify the soil & maybe by September the soil will be ready for the plants. Judi
If you plant your blueberries in 100% azalea mix it will have all the acidity it requires. I have blueberries all year long even during the winter months. I fertilize with azalea mix every three months.
John Martinez Hello john i use spagnum peat moss, pine bark fines, pine bark, black cow compost, top soil and an acidic type amendment- fertilizer. My blueberry plants are doing wonderful.
Your videos are great, I live in a condo so i have to containerize everything, using perilite is great but i would prefer using pumice as it never breaks down and im sure your know this pumice is volcanic rock and contains small amounts of iron ore, sometimes i even add some decompost granite to really aerate the soil. love your vids
Another great vid, Charles Love it, I have 2 blueberries plants right now, they are starting bloom. I'd like to know how your schedule of feeding. Again thanks for the video...keep on growing and stay safe and healthy 👌💕
Charles, I really appreciate your videos and have learned a lot. I'd like to suggest that you reconsider your recommendation of adding gravel to the bottom of the pot to improve drainage. This is a long perpetuated myth and it actually makes drainage much worse causing the soil to retain water. Water doesn't transfer well from one medium to another. Check it out, there are lots of convincing articles on the internet about this. A better solution is to stick with adding the perlite to the potting mix (as you recommend).
Not true whatsoever. When they say transferring from one medium to another they are talking about two different growing mediums. Gravel is not considered a growing medium by most horticulturalist.
What kind of soil did you use? Did you buy it or make it yaself? Also what type of bb plant do you have? I have sunshine blue and I’m going to bunnings later to get another type.
For those beginners who want to grow blueberries in buckets: 01. Bucket 55l (15 gallon) 02. Soil from a pine forest 03. Mix the soil with pieces of sticks and pine bark 04. Pine bark mulch Purchased soil is dead soil. No doubt. Purchased fertilizer is not as good as slowly decaying sticks with pine bark. They gradually give the blueberries nutrients. If you really want to take care of the blueberry, it is a good idea to let pieces of pine bark stand in water for several weeks. As soon as the water "rusts", it also has a low ph, then water them. If you have blueberries in black buckets, they will heat up a lot in the sun and the roots will suffer. Either use white buckets or simply paint the black ones white or wrap them in paper or aluminum foil. One last piece of advice: the more varieties of blueberries, the more fruit you will have. Failure is not possible with this procedure
I just bought a bunch of trees from them. Can’t wait to get them. I think in Las Vegas I can plant my blueberries in the ground, we don’t get much rain here.
Hello Patti, I agree with you, that you should have better control of soil moisture in Las Vegas, than we do here in Los Angeles. When it rains here (especially during the cooler, winter months) the soil stays very damp weeks on end (due to the high clay content).... creating the continuous "wet feet (root)" issues that blueberries do not like. Keep me posted on your food forest expansion!!! Charles :-)
Thank you so much for this information. This is very helpful. It's my first time growing blueberries in the Philippines and they are now in the flowering stage. I also have a Misty variety.
I haven't seen blueberries grown from seed but I'm sure it can be done under optimum conditions the best way to do it is to air graft them it is slow but it works
Sunshine has been a fantastic producer here in the bay area/NorCal! My pink lemonade has been the slowest to establish of all the different types I have which also includes misty and southmoon...all new plants from this year which grazed on all summer! 😋
As usual, a great video and a great help. I really want to get some blueberry plants now. I also, need some of those wine barrel containers. I'm going looking today! I've always wanted to grow blueberries, but never thought I could until now. Thank you!
New subscriber to your vlog. Just saw your video which is very educational for me as I just bought some berry plant (Sunshine blueberry, Boysenberry and Mulberry). I have a question regarding protecting the berry when the plant start producing them. How do you prevent the berry from being eaten by birds? Do you use net?
ALL my plants end up in the ground, pots are good for many but not my style. I have 7 bberies outback but only one is old and strong, very productive I pick a handful or two every day.
Thank you foe your comment. This year is my first year planting and I really don’t want to plant in pots sense I have a big property . Are you in the south of USA I am in zone 9a
@@aidegarabedian2073 I'm in farther North California, inland/lowland, 9a also. Bberries are a tad tricky for me and would be a top choice for pots just due to soil PH requirements that nothing else I grow are so particular about. I'm lucky I can grow everything from avocadoes to apples. Most fruits I no longer purchase, the quality just doesn't cut it, berries, cherries, peaches especially are crap from the store.
My blueberry was really weak, and sadly a couple months ago my gardener cut off the last stem:/ however i just looked at it and there are leaves on the ground! I don’t know what to do but i found that crazy
I was thinking about your comment that Blueberry bushes don't like to have wet roots. As a child we spent summers in Maine. To pick them we were almost always ankle deep in swampy muck. I was hoping you might comment on this contradiction.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused on that as well. A bit different, but ive always dug trenches and they've always grown very well, soil always moist as they branch out amd cover their bases
"I added potting mix to the UM" Much better to 'pause' instead of saying UM to fill in a pause, I don't speak perfect English but when I here a message filled with Um it makes it hard to hear the message. I must say, you have very good information here and I Thank you for that.
Thank you for this very informative video. I will be heading to my local Home Depot today to hopefully purchase a blueberry plant. Will you be making a video when you plant your Lemon Verbena cuttings? :)
🙋🏼♀️Hi I have a question and it’s not about blueberries… I was just wondering how you keep your Astroturf so green?!?!😯 LOL .....I’ve watched a ton of your videos and I love your advice, and even though I think I noticed it before, it never really clicked until just now 😂that’s pretty funny☝🏻
I have watched You and Gary Laguna Nursery and have learned a lot. I have watched You refer to Gary's soil recommendations and I'm confused because you do not seem to be following his theory of not using potting mix as it contributes to root rot. Confused
What should we do with old potting soil? I now understand from your video that is is bad to add old potting soil to my ground plant beds because of the components (perlite and vermiculite) in it that retain moisture and don’t break down and could cause root rot. Thanks for that info!
No I don’t see how it could be bad for your garden 🤔 it should be fine to throw out ya old potting mixes on ya garden as a mulch for the garden. It’s not going to hurt them at all. The perlite and vermiculite will add drainage and moisture etc to your soil so all good.
I have tried planning them around my pine trees, but non have made it yet 😰. Pots may be the key, maybe a couple years in a Manila/berlack sack, then in the ground. Maybe an amazing addition to my collection of my potted in and out door plants
Hello Joe, Pine needles make a great mulch around blueberries!!! Consider positioning the containers on the South side of the pine trees, where they will still get some shade, but more sunshine. Keep me posted on your blueberry growing successes! Charles :-)
When using the pear moss to acidifying the soil, do you use some in each layer?...or just the bottom and top layer like you did with the perilite? Love your videos!
Hi Charles, thank you again for another great video. I had my own ideas about growing blueberries, and now I have your wisdom as well. A little of topic, i have a giant orange producing lots and lots of fruit, the skins are real easy to peal, but the fruit is very dry and no sweetness. I don't think it has been given nutrients. What nutrients do you recommend to get the sweetness up and juicy fruit? Thank you
Can you place the pot all the way into the ground so that the soil levels inside and outside are flush with each other, thus mimicking a ground potted plant with the benefits of a potted plant?
Thank you for sharing this video. I am researching different blueberry 🫐 varieties and I would like to know which variety of blueberry grows well in containers?
I subbed i realize the is a 2yr video but i liked how you talked everything thru. Would be nice to know where you can pick up the products you talk about. Im in Ohio and havent seen these brands
Check Home Depot, most of the products the brand does not matter. The soil acidifier, you can also use Holley Tone as it has sulfur added to fertilizer. Getting started with Blueberries and Honeyberries.
The Harvest is over for the year. Now what can I do to insure a bumper crop next year? From what I understand. Blue berries form on new wood. So do I need to prune now? Am I right about new wood?
I do the citrus shuffle and saw the spray you used in this video also protects against sunburn on leaves. If I spray this product on my citrus leaves when I start taking my citrus outdoors, do I have to adapt them to the sunlight or will your product prevent the burn, thus preventing having to take my trees in and out multiple times each spring?
very helpful and inspiring...going to Home depot to buy some blueberry plants..but since its already May mid, adding soil acidifier maybe too late now, should I add peat moss 50% to the potting mix? should I add any worm castings?
Thank you! Nice video. Do you think LA city compost would work instead of potting mix (with added vermiculite)? Some of my container plants standing on the ground grew roots through holes of their pots and clogged that holes. After the last big rain I had to drill new holes, because water was standing in some pots. I guess this will not happen with blueberries since they are shallow rooted.
Hello Charles, As a person who was not very fond of blueberries I pretty much didn’t grow them but a couple of years ago my wife encouraged me to try it. We bought some rabbiteye varieties for our area here in South Georgia. WOW!! is the only thing I can say. The difference between store bought and fresh is like apples to oranges. The great joy for us is the grandkids who on arrival run thru the house and out to the backyard straight to those blueberries. Hey Charles on another note what happened with the sunflower seed giveaway. I entered immediately and was sent an email saying later updates would follow. My wife ask me about this but until now I haven’t seen any info. Thanks for all the great lessons you provide
Hello Charles, this is Wanda...I live in Sacramento CA. Northern CA. BLueberries are my favorite fruit. I LOVE THEM. I’m going to the nursery tomorrow to get my plants. I have ten gallon pots already. I am so excited to plant my own blueberries. What was the name of the spray you put on the leaves? Also what is your favorite blueberry? I watched the video but don’t remember. I have three pots so I will get three different types unless you recommend one type. Thank you
Charles, I am on my 3rd year of growing blueberries and did not know that growing them in pots is better. If I planted in the ground in April can in mid June dig them up and transplant them in pots without killing them.
Hello Greg, I hear it over and over again, from so many professionals I work with... That of all fruits, blueberries do the best in pots.... primarily because the roots do not like being continuously wet, as would happen during the colder wet winter months. There is very little, to no risk of harm to your in-ground blueberries during the summer... but the highest risk of transplant shock than any other time of the year. Therefore, I would recommend that you do this (or any other transplanting that can wait) until early fall... around late September/ early October. Let me know if you have any other questions. Charles :-)
Charles, Thank you for your kind reply. The only reason I am asking is because I am on my 3rd year of trying to grow blueberries but I understand the shock issue. After watching your video on well drained blueberries I believe my first 2 attempts I have probably watered them too much. The soil is good soil not clay that they are planted in. So what is your recommendation being that they are already in the ground since April just water them really good 1 time a week.
Charles, Thank you for your kind reply. If I were to dig up my blueberries now in late June and put them in pots do I trim them back severely after potting them up. Just don't want to lose them for the 3rd year in a row.
Hello mate do you have full sun in your garden for the berries because it looks very shady as you have some trees and high walls which makes it look just like my garden? I have pear and plum trees which only get 2 to 3 hours of direct sun below the tree branches so do you think I can grow sunshine blues in mostly shade sections if the soil pH and drainage is taken care of? i read that some low bush blueberries could be ideal for such locations also I researched on the web and found out that fabric pots are far more beneficial than all the others due to various reasons please check it out if you haven't already. Can you suggest any varieties I live in London and I can easily get sunshine blueberry plants in the UK and it's perfect in size for planting below the branches. I must say your video is really helpful it covers everything in great detail being a virgo myself and the way I am I sometimes think that I am too much on the detail, maybe because of being an engineer I don't know, it just made me happy seeing you going in detail with this highly educating video about blueberries, also made me think that some people just have the skills when it comes to detailing part and analysing of their work and most people think they do but they don't. I watched loads of blueberry videos recently yours is by far the best, I am trying to learn more as I am new to gardening and I really enjoy it so now I am on the mission to surprise my sons with their favourite fruit "Blueberries" :) The most challenging as I found out due to lack of direct sun because of the trees and being in the UK it's very rainy and green with so many birds, squirrels and other animals that keep on eating my seedlings and destroying my garden. Thank you ever so much for the help.
Very helpful. I live in Oregon and have heavy clay. I'm on a hill and the water coming down totally saturates the clay all winter into squishy mud. This container idea may be the answer. I am planting 50 to 60 blueberries and I think it will be so much easier to prep the soil for containers than it will be in the ground. With the heavy mud we get is a bad idea to bury the container in ground?
I have a sunshine blue in a sleeve from Dave Wilson nursery do you know if it’s okay to just plant it in a five gallon container . I also use Kellogg raisedbed soil do you think it work with my bare root strawberries ??
Hello Tony, Sounds good! I would plant the strawberries near the perimeter with the hope that some of the strawberries would ripen off the edge of the container (as the free hanging strawberries typically ripen best, and remain naturally pest free better). Keep me posted on your blueberry & strawberry successes by later this spring/ early summer!!! Charles :-)
Hello Joe, Interesting! I always learn something new... Thank you for sharing! I will do my research and discuss with my pears! Thank you, again, for sharing! Charles :-)
It means you don’t have to have another blueberry plant to pollinate it in order to get blueberries. However, you will get a better harvest if you have more than one plant.
Hi- I live in Phoenix, AZ where the temperatures have been about 112º during the day and 90º at night. About a month ago I purchased two O'Neal blueberry bushes and read that they needed another variety to cross pollinate. So I purchased a Sunshine Blue and placed the pot between the O'Neals. I potted them all as you have suggested including the IV Organic spray. I have been grinding dried banana peels for fertilizer. I water every morning at 5ish. My husband has suggested that I water at night also, since it is soo hot here. I don't want to over water, but that does make sense. Now a couple of leafs have brown areas. Is that from too much water or too much sun? The plants are on the east side of our house and have full sun until about 1PM and then bright shade. Thank you very much for the video and hopefully for your answer about growing blueberries in Phoenix!
That company Burpee does not ship blueberry plants to CA. It says restrictions to several states. Can you recommend another website to order blueberries? Thank you
Shoot! I've been over-watering my blueberries! I bought them and transplanted them in the ground this spring. They blossomed but did not fruit. Other than stop watering them, is there anything I should do to help their root systems? I am in zone 5.
You have inspired me once again. I have a space that I would like to re-purpose, and I think blueberries would be an interesting addition to my small but intense garden.
My blueberries grow fine in the ground. Better than in pots. The key is soil acidification and mulch. If you have blueberries and live in an area where black walnuts are harvested get those hulls and mulch your bushes generously. Walnut hulls are acidic and the bushes love them. You can tell when your berries are happy by the color of the leaves.
Great videos, I need to review your video on air cutting. Have had moss and rooting hormone/cloning gel for 6 months now, but have been procrastinating going forward with hacking up my beautiful fig. It's dormant, no leaves, and green buds, is it ok to air cut/clone at this life cycle?
Thank you for the compliment Joe! :-) I am about 1-2 weeks away from cloning my fig by way of cuttings, and hope to share that demo (again) before the end of this month. I like propagating figs (among other plants that propagate well by cutting) once the last chance of frost has past your area, and the weather, night time lows begin to warm. The goal is to accomplish the cuttings within a week or two of the fig breaking its dormancy! Keep me posted on your cloning successes! Charles :-)
You know your getting older when?---your best YT 'entertainment' comes from gardening channels and you look forward to Sundays with 10X more landscaping plans than you can possibly achieve in a day.
This is me at age 34 with three kids, reminiscing of my pawpaw’s garden and how I should’ve paid attention more.
Sorry to correct your Blueberry Video but the most important aspect of growing Blueberries is the PH of your soil. The Kellogg product that you used for your soil has a PH of 6.0-7.5. Blueberries have to have a PH of 4.5-5.5 in order to grow well and to produce fruit. You should have added some Sulphur to your soil mix and mixed 50% Spagnum Peat Moss to the Kellogg potting mix. The soil Acidifier that you added is a fertilizer and it takes too long to break down. Lastly, you need to do a PH test of the water that you use to water your plants. You might have to correct the PH of your water by adding white vinegar to it.
How much vinegar do you add to your water to water the blueberries? Per Gallon?
@@Yin-Yang-444 1-2 Tablespoons
@@MrCheche153 Thank you, Nicole Smith. 🌞
The best blueberry soil mix for containers for me is roughly, 30% ericaceous compost - 30% pine bark mulch - 40% peat moss, all mixed together, it makes a good airy organic compost with a PH of around 5 PH, then I water with rain water which is also around 5 PH. And I add (Elixir Gardens Bumper Crop Blueberry Special Fertiliser) 3-4 times a year, very good blueberry fert and very cheap for the amount you get... it has EVERYTHING blueberries need.
@@Yin-Yang-444,
I have 8 Blueberry bushes so I make a 5 gallon bucket of water. I add 8-10 ounces of white vinegar per 5 gallons of city water. Our city water has a ph of 7. I always measure the ph before I pour onto the plants. My blueberries really jumped this year. Looking forward to 2023 crop.
I have been putting pine bark mulch at the bottom of my blueberry containers rather than stones for 20+ years, as it's slightly acidic, I also mix it in with my ericaceous soil and peat moss mix for the blueberries, my plants love it, never had any issues, pine bark makes good drainage and a good airy acidic soil mix.
Yes, I ordered & received the pine bark mulch & will be mixing it in with the soil. So, after watching Charles' video I will be getting large wide containers & do what you do - put some pine bark at the bottom along with mixing it in & topping the soil. This will be a much better way to plant our Blueberries besides with the coming war we could actually grab up those planters & bring them inside so they won't get fall-out on them. So glad I saw this video before I planted the Blueberries in the garden. Win - Win. Thank you. Judi
Another educational video that I viewed in it's entirety. Your camera person does an excellent job. Perhaps it's time for some credit.
Hello John,
Thank you for the compliment! That was my wife behind the camera this time! I'll be sure to thank her too!!! Charles :-)
@@IVOrganic - What size container did you use to plant the blueberry bushes in? If you mentioned that in the video, I missed it. Thanks, I really learn from your videos and love how thoroughly you explain and use step-by-step directions.
YOU ARE THE BEST!! THANKS AGAIN!! LEARNED A LOT FROM YOU!! GOD BLESS YOU!! KEEP UPTHE GOOD WORK FOR HELPING MYSELF HOW TO GROW VEGERABLES! AND PLANTS!
Bravo! Thank you for a detailed and comprehensive tutorial on raising blueberries. I have gone through other TH-cam tutorials but yours is the best-- no stone left unturned! Merci beaucoup, muchas gracias. danken , bellisimo!!!
Pruning in summer is genius!! Thank you!
Another informative and educational video, Charles! That lecture with Tom is great! Thanks for sharing. Using the spray on my blueberries last year was they key to their success and making through 110 degree days for weeks on end. I just ordered two more cans as I’m adding four new bare root trees to my garden! Can’t wait to get it!
Boy you are intense! Excellent advice. My interest in plants and gardening has been renovated in part by your dedication and passion! Thanks
Thank you Charles for this video. We are in SW Arizona zone 9b & before watching your video had planned on planting the Blueberries in the garden - not now - will try to find planters like yours & place them 2" below the garden soil. But I will first put most of the soil mixtures in the pots with the sulfur - water it down & wait a couple of months for the microbes to work together to acidify the soil & maybe by September the soil will be ready for the plants. Judi
If you plant your blueberries in 100% azalea mix it will have all the acidity it requires. I have blueberries all year long even during the winter months. I fertilize with azalea mix every three months.
John Martinez what variety, and where do you live?
John Martinez Hello john i use spagnum peat moss, pine bark fines, pine bark, black cow compost, top soil and an acidic type amendment- fertilizer. My blueberry plants are doing wonderful.
Are you saying straight azaleas and rhododendron granules? 👀 👁
Your videos are great, I live in a condo so i have to containerize everything, using perilite is great but i would prefer using pumice as it never breaks down and im sure your know this pumice is volcanic rock and contains small amounts of iron ore, sometimes i even add some decompost granite to really aerate the soil. love your vids
thanks for the help Charles. Time and Time again your content inspires the work I put into my young food forest. U drop really excellent knowledge !
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for the compliment Alan R! Charles :-)
I couldn't agree more Trispy Pnick!! Love these videos, thanks Charles
Thanks for teasing me with your warm weather and excellent garden. Here in NJ it is snowing!
Another great vid, Charles
Love it, I have 2 blueberries plants right now, they are starting bloom. I'd like to know how your schedule of feeding. Again thanks for the video...keep on growing and stay safe and healthy 👌💕
If you drill holes at the ends of the cracks it will stop it from cracking further
Charles, I really appreciate your videos and have learned a lot. I'd like to suggest that you reconsider your recommendation of adding gravel to the bottom of the pot to improve drainage. This is a long perpetuated myth and it actually makes drainage much worse causing the soil to retain water. Water doesn't transfer well from one medium to another. Check it out, there are lots of convincing articles on the internet about this. A better solution is to stick with adding the perlite to the potting mix (as you recommend).
Not true whatsoever. When they say transferring from one medium to another they are talking about two different growing mediums. Gravel is not considered a growing medium by most horticulturalist.
That makes no sense. Gravel is not the same as a growing medium. The gravel helps it drain. You don't want waterlogged roots.
I have changed the soil last fall to an acid soil and in the last season its has grown a meter in length. Amazing. I am in the Adelaide hills.
What kind of soil did you use? Did you buy it or make it yaself? Also what type of bb plant do you have? I have sunshine blue and I’m going to bunnings later to get another type.
In Tasmania. Purchased 2 Sunshine Blues ( Southern High Bush ) & 1 Denise from Bunnings
I live in South louisiana and my blueberry tree is always loaded every year like now June 12th and it produces every year. It's about 12 foot
Is it in ground or pot?
Very good, will try to look after my blueberry plants following the lecture. Thanks.
For those beginners who want to grow blueberries in buckets:
01. Bucket 55l (15 gallon)
02. Soil from a pine forest
03. Mix the soil with pieces of sticks and pine bark
04. Pine bark mulch
Purchased soil is dead soil. No doubt.
Purchased fertilizer is not as good as slowly decaying sticks with pine bark. They gradually give the blueberries nutrients. If you really want to take care of the blueberry, it is a good idea to let pieces of pine bark stand in water for several weeks. As soon as the water "rusts", it also has a low ph, then water them. If you have blueberries in black buckets, they will heat up a lot in the sun and the roots will suffer. Either use white buckets or simply paint the black ones white or wrap them in paper or aluminum foil. One last piece of advice: the more varieties of blueberries, the more fruit you will have.
Failure is not possible with this procedure
Very interesting, I've always been told the complete opposite; keep your blueberries wet. Good drainage, yes, but soil should never be dry.
I just bought a bunch of trees from them. Can’t wait to get them. I think in Las Vegas I can plant my blueberries in the ground, we don’t get much rain here.
Hello Patti,
I agree with you, that you should have better control of soil moisture in Las Vegas, than we do here in Los Angeles. When it rains here (especially during the cooler, winter months) the soil stays very damp weeks on end (due to the high clay content).... creating the continuous "wet feet (root)" issues that blueberries do not like. Keep me posted on your food forest expansion!!! Charles :-)
Thank you so much for this information. This is very helpful. It's my first time growing blueberries in the Philippines and they are now in the flowering stage. I also have a Misty variety.
Can you show us how these blueberry plant look now ? Please .
They ALL died painfully. :D
I haven't seen blueberries grown from seed but I'm sure it can be done under optimum conditions the best way to do it is to air graft them it is slow but it works
Sunshine has been a fantastic producer here in the bay area/NorCal! My pink lemonade has been the slowest to establish of all the different types I have which also includes misty and southmoon...all new plants from this year which grazed on all summer! 😋
Does your sunshine blue pollinate itself or is the other one flowering at the same time?
My sunshine blue has had no fruit yet. Only flowers.
It's been a year..how are they doing? 😁 Just got two blueberries. Sharpblue and sunshine blue
As usual, a great video and a great help. I really want to get some blueberry plants now. I also, need some of those wine barrel containers. I'm going looking today! I've always wanted to grow blueberries, but never thought I could until now. Thank you!
I enjoy your program for many plants. Easy to follow and clear compare other program.
Very nice video Charles. Blueberries are a great fruit to grow. such a wonderful flavor and easy to grow1
Thanks for the info,u are Great!
New subscriber to your vlog. Just saw your video which is very educational for me as I just bought some berry plant (Sunshine blueberry, Boysenberry and Mulberry). I have a question regarding protecting the berry when the plant start producing them. How do you prevent the berry from being eaten by birds? Do you use net?
I use nets and it works.
Hey, thanks so much! I'm doing everything you said. I had it in the ground in Annapolis Maryland. Have the same pot too! Thanks!
ALL my plants end up in the ground, pots are good for many but not my style. I have 7 bberies outback but only one is old and strong, very productive I pick a handful or two every day.
Thank you foe your comment. This year is my first year planting and I really don’t want to plant in pots sense I have a big property . Are you in the south of USA I am in zone 9a
@@aidegarabedian2073 I'm in farther North California, inland/lowland, 9a also.
Bberries are a tad tricky for me and would be a top choice for pots just due to soil PH requirements that nothing else I grow are so particular about. I'm lucky I can grow everything from avocadoes to apples. Most fruits I no longer purchase, the quality just doesn't cut it, berries, cherries, peaches especially are crap from the store.
My blueberry was really weak, and sadly a couple months ago my gardener cut off the last stem:/ however i just looked at it and there are leaves on the ground! I don’t know what to do but i found that crazy
We mix ours with granite sand and our plants love it.
Good to hear that as I recently had tons of DG dumped on my front lawn. :D (along with crushed lava and shale)
I was thinking about your comment that Blueberry bushes don't like to have wet roots. As a child we spent summers in Maine. To pick them we were almost always ankle deep in swampy muck. I was hoping you might comment on this contradiction.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused on that as well. A bit different, but ive always dug trenches and they've always grown very well, soil always moist as they branch out amd cover their bases
He's stole my tradition of buying damaged wine barrels.... I get the broken ones for 1/2 off and they are the real full size
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"I added potting mix to the UM" Much better to 'pause' instead of saying UM to fill in a pause, I don't speak perfect English but when I here a message filled with Um it makes it hard to hear the message. I must say, you have very good information here and I Thank you for that.
Thank you for this very informative video. I will be heading to my local Home Depot today to hopefully purchase a blueberry plant. Will you be making a video when you plant your Lemon Verbena cuttings? :)
Great! I am going to get blueberry bushes for my container soon
🙋🏼♀️Hi I have a question and it’s not about blueberries… I was just wondering how you keep your Astroturf so green?!?!😯 LOL
.....I’ve watched a ton of your videos and I love your advice, and even though I think I noticed it before, it never really clicked until just now 😂that’s pretty funny☝🏻
Another great video. Thanks!
what is the best kind of rock for drainage ? can I use volcanic rock ?
I am and I don’t see why ya can’t use it.
I have watched You and Gary Laguna Nursery and have learned a lot. I have watched You refer to Gary's soil recommendations and I'm confused because you do not seem to be following his theory of not using potting mix as it contributes to root rot.
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What should we do with old potting soil? I now understand from your video that is is bad to add old potting soil to my ground plant beds because of the components (perlite and vermiculite) in it that retain moisture and don’t break down and could cause root rot. Thanks for that info!
No I don’t see how it could be bad for your garden 🤔 it should be fine to throw out ya old potting mixes on ya garden as a mulch for the garden. It’s not going to hurt them at all. The perlite and vermiculite will add drainage and moisture etc to your soil so all good.
I have tried planning them around my pine trees, but non have made it yet 😰. Pots may be the key, maybe a couple years in a Manila/berlack sack, then in the ground. Maybe an amazing addition to my collection of my potted in and out door plants
Hello Joe,
Pine needles make a great mulch around blueberries!!! Consider positioning the containers on the South side of the pine trees, where they will still get some shade, but more sunshine. Keep me posted on your blueberry growing successes! Charles :-)
Thx for nice video. Do you always give them that much water or just first time?
Are those Loquats behind you. That is my next search. I have them but haven't researched their care yet
3:06 did i just hear you say pause it ..lol love it great info.
When using the pear moss to acidifying the soil, do you use some in each layer?...or just the bottom and top layer like you did with the perilite? Love your videos!
Hi Charles, thank you again for another great video. I had my own ideas about growing blueberries, and now I have your wisdom as well.
A little of topic, i have a giant orange producing lots and lots of fruit, the skins are real easy to peal, but the fruit is very dry and no sweetness. I don't think it has been given nutrients. What nutrients do you recommend to get the sweetness up and juicy fruit? Thank you
Can you place the pot all the way into the ground so that the soil levels inside and outside are flush with each other, thus mimicking a ground potted plant with the benefits of a potted plant?
Yeah I don’t see why not as long as your soul will drain so it doesn’t get wet feet
Thank you for sharing this video. I am researching different blueberry 🫐 varieties and I would like to know which variety of blueberry grows well in containers?
Great video! Thank you so much. Can't wait to find out which varieties will work for me here in Southern Indiana :)
I subbed i realize the is a 2yr video but i liked how you talked everything thru. Would be nice to know where you can pick up the products you talk about. Im in Ohio and havent seen these brands
Check Home Depot, most of the products the brand does not matter. The soil acidifier, you can also use Holley Tone as it has sulfur added to fertilizer. Getting started with Blueberries and Honeyberries.
Great info. Thank you!
About not liking their feet wet, that's true for avacado too isn't it?
The Harvest is over for the year. Now what can I do to insure a bumper crop next year? From what I understand. Blue berries form on new wood. So do I need to prune now? Am I right about new wood?
Very helpful. Thanks much for making this video.
How do you prevent your bananas to become invasive? How to join your gardening club? I would like to hear those upcomming lectures too.
I do the citrus shuffle and saw the spray you used in this video also protects against sunburn on leaves. If I spray this product on my citrus leaves when I start taking my citrus outdoors, do I have to adapt them to the sunlight or will your product prevent the burn, thus preventing having to take my trees in and out multiple times each spring?
Wish I could buy the organic pesticide you used, here in UK.
Thank you so much for excellent education video. I have one question, have you ever use wick container or fabric planters to grow blue berry?
Does the pot planting work in colder climates where you have freezing temps in the winter? The whole pot full of damp soil (and roots) will freeze.
very helpful and inspiring...going to Home depot to buy some blueberry plants..but since its already May mid, adding soil acidifier maybe too late now, should I add peat moss 50% to the potting mix? should I add any worm castings?
Thank you! Nice video. Do you think LA city compost would work instead of potting mix (with added vermiculite)? Some of my container plants standing on the ground grew roots through holes of their pots and clogged that holes. After the last big rain I had to drill new holes, because water was standing in some pots. I guess this will not happen with blueberries since they are shallow rooted.
If your roots have grown through the holes, it’s time for a bigger pot.
Hello Charles, As a person who was not very fond of blueberries I pretty much didn’t grow them but a couple of years ago my wife encouraged me to try it. We bought some rabbiteye varieties for our area here in South Georgia. WOW!! is the only thing I can say. The difference between store bought and fresh is like apples to oranges. The great joy for us is the grandkids who on arrival run thru the house and out to the backyard straight to those blueberries. Hey Charles on another note what happened with the sunflower seed giveaway. I entered immediately and was sent an email saying later updates would follow. My wife ask me about this but until now I haven’t seen any info. Thanks for all the great lessons you provide
Hello Charles, this is Wanda...I live in Sacramento CA. Northern CA. BLueberries are my favorite fruit. I LOVE THEM. I’m going to the nursery tomorrow to get my plants. I have ten gallon pots already. I am so excited to plant my own blueberries. What was the name of the spray you put on the leaves? Also what is your favorite blueberry? I watched the video but don’t remember. I have three pots so I will get three different types unless you recommend one type. Thank you
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We eat those bananas green as well with saltfish in the Caribbean
Hi I noticed your air layer pod,do you have any success? I find blue berries cuttings hard to strike,hence thinking of layering. thanks
Why is a deep container used if blueberry has shallow roots?
Thanks so much for all this info!!!
Charles, I am on my 3rd year of growing blueberries and did not know that growing them in pots is better. If I planted in the ground in April can in mid June dig them up and transplant them in pots without killing them.
Hello Greg,
I hear it over and over again, from so many professionals I work with... That of all fruits, blueberries do the best in pots.... primarily because the roots do not like being continuously wet, as would happen during the colder wet winter months. There is very little, to no risk of harm to your in-ground blueberries during the summer... but the highest risk of transplant shock than any other time of the year. Therefore, I would recommend that you do this (or any other transplanting that can wait) until early fall... around late September/ early October. Let me know if you have any other questions. Charles :-)
Charles, Thank you for your kind reply. The only reason I am asking is because I am on my 3rd year of trying to grow blueberries but I understand the shock issue. After watching your video on well drained blueberries I believe my first 2 attempts I have probably watered them too much. The soil is good soil not clay that they are planted in. So what is your recommendation being that they are already in the ground since April just water them really good 1 time a week.
Charles, Thank you for your kind reply. If I were to dig up my blueberries now in late June and put them in pots do I trim them back severely after potting them up. Just don't want to lose them for the 3rd year in a row.
Once again very educational
Hello mate do you have full sun in your garden for the berries because it looks very shady as you have some trees and high walls which makes it look just like my garden? I have pear and plum trees which only get 2 to 3 hours of direct sun below the tree branches so do you think I can grow sunshine blues in mostly shade sections if the soil pH and drainage is taken care of? i read that some low bush blueberries could be ideal for such locations also I researched on the web and found out that fabric pots are far more beneficial than all the others due to various reasons please check it out if you haven't already. Can you suggest any varieties I live in London and I can easily get sunshine blueberry plants in the UK and it's perfect in size for planting below the branches. I must say your video is really helpful it covers everything in great detail being a virgo myself and the way I am I sometimes think that I am too much on the detail, maybe because of being an engineer I don't know, it just made me happy seeing you going in detail with this highly educating video about blueberries, also made me think that some people just have the skills when it comes to detailing part and analysing of their work and most people think they do but they don't. I watched loads of blueberry videos recently yours is by far the best, I am trying to learn more as I am new to gardening and I really enjoy it so now I am on the mission to surprise my sons with their favourite fruit "Blueberries" :) The most challenging as I found out due to lack of direct sun because of the trees and being in the UK it's very rainy and green with so many birds, squirrels and other animals that keep on eating my seedlings and destroying my garden. Thank you ever so much for the help.
Unfortunately no blueberry nursery plants here in India ,only seeds but I don't know if they will succeed or not
i suggest getting a taller blueberry since it will be a year or 2 ahead and blueberry faster
Can you please share the link to where I can buy the I v products please
Doesn't the perlite mostly float to the top when it so close to the top of the pot
Very helpful. I live in Oregon and have heavy clay. I'm on a hill and the water coming down totally saturates the clay all winter into squishy mud. This container idea may be the answer. I am planting 50 to 60 blueberries and I think it will be so much easier to prep the soil for containers than it will be in the ground. With the heavy mud we get is a bad idea to bury the container in ground?
I would put the container on bricks or something like that, that way the water can drain.
I have a sunshine blue in a sleeve from Dave Wilson nursery do you know if it’s okay to just plant it in a five gallon container . I also use Kellogg raisedbed soil do you think it work with my bare root strawberries ??
Hello Tony,
Sounds good! I would plant the strawberries near the perimeter with the hope that some of the strawberries would ripen off the edge of the container (as the free hanging strawberries typically ripen best, and remain naturally pest free better). Keep me posted on your blueberry & strawberry successes by later this spring/ early summer!!!
Charles :-)
Thanks I sure will
How about a review of algea injecting, established tree, root zones. I have heard it works wonders
Hello Joe,
Interesting! I always learn something new... Thank you for sharing! I will do my research and discuss with my pears! Thank you, again, for sharing! Charles :-)
Very thorough. Great info.
Learned a lot thank you very much
thank you for showing from the beggining to end, the spray 1-3 Guard do you spray how many times a year?
Could you please do a video how to care for pomegranates ?
I have one question. When you speak about self pollinating varieties, does this mean they set fruit without pollinators like insects and so on?
It means you don’t have to have another blueberry plant to pollinate it in order to get blueberries. However, you will get a better harvest if you have more than one plant.
Hi- I live in Phoenix, AZ where the temperatures have been about 112º during the day and 90º at night. About a month ago I purchased two O'Neal blueberry bushes and read that they needed another variety to cross pollinate. So I purchased a Sunshine Blue and placed the pot between the O'Neals. I potted them all as you have suggested including the IV Organic spray. I have been grinding dried banana peels for fertilizer. I water every morning at 5ish. My husband has suggested that I water at night also, since it is soo hot here. I don't want to over water, but that does make sense. Now a couple of leafs have brown areas. Is that from too much water or too much sun? The plants are on the east side of our house and have full sun until about 1PM and then bright shade. Thank you very much for the video and hopefully for your answer about growing blueberries in Phoenix!
Your a G thank you for your knowledge
Is it not recommended to add a mulch layer on top of the soil?
That company Burpee does not ship blueberry plants to CA. It says restrictions to several states. Can you recommend another website to order blueberries?
Thank you
Shoot! I've been over-watering my blueberries! I bought them and transplanted them in the ground this spring. They blossomed but did not fruit. Other than stop watering them, is there anything I should do to help their root systems? I am in zone 5.
My sunshine blue has never set fruit but has loads of flowers 😩 it says it’s a self pollinating type but I don’t think so.
You have inspired me once again. I have a space that I would like to re-purpose, and I think blueberries would be an interesting addition to my small but intense garden.
My blueberries grow fine in the ground. Better than in pots. The key is soil acidification and mulch.
If you have blueberries and live in an area where black walnuts are harvested get those hulls and mulch your bushes generously. Walnut hulls are acidic and the bushes love them. You can tell when your berries are happy by the color of the leaves.
Great videos, I need to review your video on air cutting. Have had moss and rooting hormone/cloning gel for 6 months now, but have been procrastinating going forward with hacking up my beautiful fig. It's dormant, no leaves, and green buds, is it ok to air cut/clone at this life cycle?
Thank you for the compliment Joe! :-) I am about 1-2 weeks away from cloning my fig by way of cuttings, and hope to share that demo (again) before the end of this month. I like propagating figs (among other plants that propagate well by cutting) once the last chance of frost has past your area, and the weather, night time lows begin to warm. The goal is to accomplish the cuttings within a week or two of the fig breaking its dormancy! Keep me posted on your cloning successes! Charles :-)
Good lecture.
U didn’t have to add any of the soil acidifier and holly tone?
Can i use vinegar solution to make the soil acidic? And how often do i water it with vinegar solution?
BEST ADIVISE, Very detaiedl. Thank You,
i like to know fr the start how u planting fr seeds