How To Prune & Best Time To Prune blueberries and other berry bushes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ต.ค. 2014
- I will be pruning my blueberry bushes, but I wanted to talk about when the best time to prune grapes, raspberry bushes, blackberry bushes, and even fruit trees like peaches, apple trees, pear trees, and any other home orchard tree you can think of!
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The correct word you’re looking for is: Shrubby.
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This is just plan wrong. Every fruit differs, blueberries are pruned to insure longevity and fruit production. This is done by keeping a balance of young, adolescent and mature canes. Never prune off tips. Those are were your largest and best producing buds are. prune conflicting branching and any inward branching and thats it. Rule of thumb on mature blueberries is that you remove the oldest cane every year or two. This way you have constant rejuvenation and optimal fruit production.
Great video Luke. That was a nice easy way for people to remember how to prune the blueberries
Thanks for sharing the tips, Luke! I need to prune our honeyberries!
Thanks Luke. I am just amending my soil for planting blueberry plants Spring 2015. This video will help me next year. My Raspberries are to be CUT TO THE GROUND every year. They are Summer producers.
well some people don't like cutting them all down to the ground since the more you create a bush, the more they will produce. But yes, you can cut them back, they will just produce a lot less that's all!
Thanks Luke, going to give it a shot in the fall.
I was just thinking I needed to brush up on my blueberry pruning :) well timed !
Thank You... good to know.
Thanks Luke! About time I prune mine as well.
get on that! :) thanks for watching
Wow, that blueberry plant is beautiful! I suppose our weather here (east coast Australia) doesn’t get cold enough because our blueberry doesn’t go that spectacular colour! Thanks Luke!
crimson red!! wow! beautiful year round! happy gardening! (:
cool videos, thanks for your good work, you are easily the best on youtube when it comes to tips and actually showing what to do.
youtoob0217 WOW thank you! That means a lot!
I pruned mine this morning - but whoops - I did about 25% generally and 50% in places. I wish I'd watched your video before I started with the secateurs!! LOL. Thanks Luke. Another learning experience for me.
no worries! live and learn :) Thanks for watching steve!
Thank you so much!
Thanks I have a few blueberries needing much love... peace!!
Hey Luke! I hope you and the team are doing well. I was wondering if you guys might want to revisit the berry bush series you have here that’s now a little dated? I’m sure the knowledge still stands up on its own but nearly 10 years later & more experienced, I’m curious if you have anything else to add!
I’ve got a 1 year old royalty purple raspberry bush I’m about to prune for the first time and started to research the best practices on my own
My blueberries do not grow fruit on new growth. They only fruit on branches from the previous year or older. I realize this video is old I’m surprised no one has made that comment before.
LOL! Shrubular! I love it!
How do I protect my 4, blueberry plants in containers, just planted this past spring, 2021, over the winter here in Michigan?
Oops my 2nd year blueberry (just bought from the nursery) was in the early pink bud stage and I cut it before planting. I wanted to encourage growth in the roots before planting into a bigger container. Should I have not done that?
Thanks Luke, always wanted to know how to trim blue berries.
glad I could help!
Since I am a new berry bush grower, this is very timely and helpful info Luke. I can see from your video that my berry bushes and grape vine that I just planted are in need of pruning for sure! I also have several new shoots that I just rooted from the berry bushes that are already going crazy that may need pruning as well. Do you think I would do it now even tho it is not very cold here? It may be colder in a month or so (relatively speaking).
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY I think for you I would recommend pruning it now, It won't really go dormant where you live. So you want to prune it before the plant realizes it is the next fruiting cycle. Hope that helps!
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Very helpful, Luke, I will be doing this very soon and posting a video. Hoping for some berries next spring!
Good information Luke!
thank you!
Thankyou!!!!!
Is it too late? :) Technically, it's still fall here in MN and we have snow on the ground. I didn't prune my raspberries and black raspberries yet. Should I do that now even though its snowy? I am going for the "shrubuler" style and not the lanky style.
What about those of us who live in warm climates, like South Florida? Does it matter when we prune or should we still wait until Fall?
Hi so i bought blueberry bushes last summer, my PH was too high, got little to no blueberries. Fixed the PH, the plants showed no signs of issues, all green leaves, but then i notices some canes were dropping leaves. so i cut them off. I have 10 plants, and only 3 or 4 plants had this symptom. Now i have a ton of new growth but it happened beginning of june. Now there is only about 7 berries off the 10 plants , and a ton of new growth, maybe 30-40% is new growth. Will they also produce berries or is it too late for that? I see no buds or anything. I just learned from your video that fruit only comes on new growth...
my blue berries are old stock 15yrs old.. still produce but old owners did not prune what to do ??
Hey Luke, This video came out right on time because I was just wondering when I should prune my blueberry plants. As I've said before, this is my first year in which I truly got into gardening so I'm learning as I go. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge, it helps more than you know. I hope you & Sindy had a great Halloween & I hope all is well. ~Pete~
we did! we have a surprise coming out tomorrow!
Awesome!!! I like surprises!!! Can't wait!!! Tell Sindy I said HOLA!!! ~Pete~
Could the pieces you are cutting off be rooted?
TY.
thanks for watching!
Very cool video, we should all start using "shrubular" until we make it an official word ;-)
Hi, thank you so much for your videos! I have a question, how do you prune very old bushes? I just bought a farm and the bushes almost look like "trees". They have not been pruned in years. They did produce berries in the summer. I want to make sure I don't kill these plants as I love blueberries! Thank you in advance!
if you have 4-6 massive canes, prune out completely 1 or 2 of them early spring before bud break, it will initiate the bush to push up a few new whips from the root-ball!! rejuvenation is underway for that bush! (:
@@hilow8331 awesome - thank you!
Does this work with strawberries even though they’re not berries
I’m currently in the process of growing boysenberries in my backyard and now I have an idea of what to do with them them when the time comes for me to prune them.
great tips - we are gonna be busy pruning our fruit trees in the next weeks
Let us know when you do :) i would love to see them
we will try to film the process if we can
I love the leaves on that berry plant, so pretty. I know you can root a mulberry and I am just wondering can you root the other berries too. I know that sounds naughty if you are an Aussie LOL. My friend got some raspberries, black berry, mulberries and blueberries and I would like to ask her fo some cuttings and give it a go.
***** Well I don't know what "root the berries" mean down under, but my un-naughty answer would be YES! Berry plants can be rooted so simply!
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LOL. Cool, if I can root them I will have some free plants. I know mulberries will grow in my area without much fuss but the other berries they sound delicate. My friend just planted hers this year and not sure yet what they will be like. Rob Bob got one growing up in Queensland so I have a good chance… thanks Luke.
Are the cuts made above or below a leaf node, Luke?
just below, it allows stem for more branching to occur.
do you have any tips for growing blueberries indoors? such as soil, watering , wintering ?
do a lil shimmy lil shake! (:
Each plant will need a certain amount of freeze hours to come back full tilt. Sphagnum moss is great for aeration, water absorption and lowering pH for great blueberries. Use at least 1/4 canadian sphagnum moss in your mix and add sulfur to keep pH acidic long term. Water often as your soil can drain it nice and not be completed soaked like mud.
My plant is 7 or 8 years old and I've never pruned it. (I'm just now really educating myself on gardening). However, both this and my younger, smaller one have already started flowering. Is it too late to prune? Will it do more harm than good at this point?
Don’t prune when it is flowering. I’m sure you’ve already learned by now though. This comment is very old. They bloom once. Even late frost can steal your blueberry harvest away
You might want to check your sources on the timing. University of Maine is a good source thru their extension programs. I've pruned blueberries and fruit trees in the January thru March time period based on their science.
just any time when the plant is dormant. This would still fall under jan-march,
have you a video on GojiBerries? mine is just lanky
M Akhtar they are just lanky, not much you can do about it.
Can those trimmings be used to propagate?
not at that timing.... early spring before bud break for hardwood... or springtime once new growth hits 6-8 inches for softwood cuttings. softwood tend to root easier under high humidity... 50-50 sand peatmoss mix... they callus is 4-6 weeks, roots begin to form shortly after, slowly..... keep them in prop bed or greenhouse for 1 entire year before planting out... cheers!
Baby luke
Why prune in the fall?
I Like the guy but he needs to take this video down, its going to kill other peoples plants. fall is when gardeners get bored and can the the plants worst enemies. He needs to listen to Mike McGrath and send all his pruners to Australia for their pruning season.
I prune in March...after most of the worse weather is over..never in fall..!!
I pruned in March this year and had such a small harvest! I pruned in the fall the year before and had a huge harvest. I'm pruning in the fall again this year to see if it works again.
Shrubular
What the heck, Fall is the WORST time to Prune, why are you giving people bad advise. Fall is when plants are going dormant, if you CUT them now they will start pumping life back into the branch and NOT go dormant and that new growth will die in the frost. I realize this is a old video but you need to take it down, i have never read or heard anyone else say Prune in fall. summer would be the 2nd worst time. deep winter and spring is the only time to do this. Also when pruning in the Winter you do not need to sterilize your cutters between prunes.