So having worked in a blueberry breeding lab, I can tell you that seeds you sprout from store bought blueberries will be a random seedlings (NOT true to type). Therefore each seedling will be genetically different and will have varying fruit quality and plant characteristic. Additionally, depending on where you live, you need to account for chilling hours. If you buy blueberries harvested in Florida and plant them in Michigan your plants will flower too early because they need very little to no chilling hours. Vise versa if you plant Michigan blueberries in Georgia or Florida they may not flower at all because they need much more chill. So you can start your own blueberries at home, but make sure they came from a similar climate and be prepared for plants with very different fruit quality such as size, and sugar content than the original parent whose berries you purchased from the store.
Just for entertainment, I was going to try this with some local blueberries for this ^^^ very reason. Also I suspect that these local berries will be more acclimated to the extreme heat we get in the summer which no blueberry plant likes.
Thank you very much for posting this additional information. I live in Florida and was unaware that blueberries are grown here. I will have to look for Florida grown blueberries. As for consistency of size and quality of fruit, I'm not reselling them so I don't object to variation as long as I get enough to have blueberries on my cereal every day. Our local garden shops don't sell blueberry plants and the only seeds I have found for sale are from northern climates.
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Just wanted to let you know I'm in my fourth year of my blueberry bush. This year I'm pretty sure I will get blueberries. I did this for raspberries too and my raspberries came last summer. While I know everyone has their need for speed and results, gardening is not for that. It requires patience. Thanks for saving me money. My kids eat so much fruit and this year I finally will have free fruit. Well worth the wait. I skinned my strawberries and let them dry on paper towel, rubbed the seeds of and they planted and took off. I learnt that method from a you tube channel called ckmcalgary. Figured I would give you an update so you knew you helped someone out and that this video was a success 🥂
@@Peoplespilates I haven't tried dried blueberries. The ones I dehydrate, my kids eat all of them LOL. However, it's worth experimenting and trying it out.
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Love this! I planted blueberry bushes last year and now my plants are two years old and I'm getting lots of blueberries. Love the idea of making new plants from my own seed
I sprout all of my seeds this way, have for probably 20 years. I don't put them in a dark place however, I put the bag in my garden window that gets sun about 5 hours a day. I've never had a fail yet.
I'm glad to see people taking an interest in gardening even if it is just in container garden on the balcony of your apartment. Everyone needs to get back to real life. That is, how non-industrial life really works. As city dwellers we can miss a lot. If you have kids take them outside show them ant colonies in the grass and birds building a nest. Buy zinnia or sunflower seeds with a cheap bag of potting soil. Start a few seeds in plastic cups and later move to a larger pot and watch them go from seed to flower and back to seed again. Dried sunflowers heads can be set out for birds to eat. Squirrels love them as well! Humans were not meant to be isolated from nature. Even if it's just growing one zinnia or basil plant on your windowsill, start today.
I tried this method several years in a row a few years back when I lived in an apartment. Failed every time. Gave up. Then you dropped that knowledge bomb about domestic berries only and I am sure that was the issue. You've awoken a sleeping giant of an experiment! Please show us an update after a few weeks!
The seeds themselves will result in plant variations, most with undesirable fruit. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
This is why you shouldn't listen to this person. Next time spend a little money on a blueberry shrub from a nursery that has legitimate named cultivars that are bred for size, flavor, and production. You'll have fruit within one year. It's really best not to listen to this youtuber. While he's "inspiring" he is not educating educating anyone on cultivar selection, what it means, and how to do it. It's a big waste of time, space. and money when you can have fruit within months or within a year from knowing what to look for and how to find them which is far more specific than anything he has said.
I have 10lbs of blueberries frozen from an Amish store. Bought for my neighbor going thru chemo to make smoothies. She only needed 5 lbs so now I’m going to try this method for my garden. Thank you!!
I remember in my home country of Poland our wild blueberries were super dark inside as compared to the ones in US. It was fun watching everyone's mouths and teeth turn blue as we devoured the delicious berries! Thank you for this video. I will definitely try to sprout some! I already have few mango and avocado trees I grew from a seed. One tree produced fruit this year!!!
The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
It would be worth it to try and get plans of those wild blueberries. The darker the fruit the higher in its nutrition, antioxidant and polyphenol content. I have no doubt that the blueberries we eat now offer only a fraction of the health benefits to the wild variety. Especially when grown in an industrial manner. Yhe soil does not contain the beneficial microbes and nutrients that it should. Mass farming equals a lower nutritional product. Grow your own, organically if possible.
I started Polona Raspberries two years ago. The first year I harvested a fall crop of 10 quarts . Last year I had a small early July harvest. In the months of September and October I picked and froze 10 gallons plus what we ate fresh. The plants are doing great and I expect even better results this fall. I'm 70 and understand that no one my age can expect to stand under the shade of a tree that I just planted. Raspberries gave me much satisfaction. I had blueberry plants this year but none of the six survived. I gonna try again. God bless. Keep it green.
Wild Canadian blueberries have darker skins and less pale insides that leave a lot more pigment in your mouth than the store-bought ones. Even the ones that say “Wild Canadian” on the package just aren’t the same at all as the real ones.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It boggles my mind that there are people in your comment section making criticisms about terms you have used. Videos like this one, where knowledge of how to grow food is being shared is a public service. It's an education not being offered in the majority of classrooms and could make the difference of people going hungry or not. Personally I am grateful, and truly appreciate your effort.
this guy had to talk about fck all for 10 minutes so he can cash out from youtube ads since his videos are child friendly he will earn a pretty som with this "educational free" knowledge. if someone is going hungry he will not have the time/space/motivation to wait 4 years till some blueberries come safe his life. Wake up from ur fairy tail world.
I agree. Free education about growing your own food on the cheap. Waiting for good quality fruit and vegetables is worth it and then you don’t have to buy them from others. For those that can’t wait - buy them and make others rich.
Its been four years and your video says it takes about four years to grow fruit. I'd love to hear how your free blueberry harvest has worked out this summer!
Haha! I can empathize with that. When I was a kid I'd plant things and keep checking all day to see if they grew yet. Don't get into forestry, trees take forever, but it's cool 10 years later to see the growth.
This is what I hate about amateur garden video makers is they want instant gratification from a one to two-year process so they just post the first part of it and never actually follow up confirming the first part was useful let alone actually wait the full two years to show the whole process. But they'll put a thumbnail with pictures of Bountiful blueberries in a video about how to grow these
If you let the seeds dry (OR ANY SEEDS 4 THAT MATTER) . you can put them in a Rinsed out Large McCormicks pepper can and sprinkle at will. also works for a lot of small seeds, wildflowers especially.
MIgardener, I'm sure that I am not the only one who would like to see the outcome of your store bought blueberry seed progress. Its now been 5 years and I haven't seen an update on your channel! Look forward to viewing the update video. Thank you kindly.
Thank you for sharing. Not tried blueberry yet but I did butternut squash seeds from store bought and planted them straight along my fence and god almighty I got plenty of fat squashes. I also planted a germinated grapefruit seed that I found in a fruit 12 years ago that grows into a big tree and last year it gave us tons of harvest. So thankful.
Squash is an annual, not a perennial shrub. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
Hopefully we'll all appreciate the blueberries we have from the store more now...knowing the time and patience growers put in to it!! Fascinating and good to know! Many thanks
I’ve had the same blueberry plant for over 16 years. It was transplanted twice when we moved, and finally transplanted a third time into a pot. It’s been producing masses of fruit each year in the pot. Aside from adding fertiliser, I grow coriander in the same pot. For some reason, this produces our best coriander too.
I've only been in the blueberry business for 6 months and yeah this is sorta right except the plants will fruit in the first 2 years. They like super soft growing medium such as sawdust, and its variety dependent too
I"m retired and besides woodworking, I began a facination with growing plants from seeds. Potatoes (from the true seed pods), apples (from the same apple different colored leaves), pears, an now cherry trees. Now I will try blueberries (she just bought some).
This video was an answer to a prayer! I was going insane trying to find a source for wild blueberry plants - now I can try to sprout my own - THANK YOU!!!
I just take whole blueberries and plant them one inch apart...in a large planter...only the depth of the berries....they were picked by me and my friends from blueberries Grown around here...never radiated...makes nice little clomps ..and they can be left in the planters for four years.
Plant the berries in the fall.....make sure the berries are ripe...squish each berry as you plant it cover with soil...water and leave in half shade...water till it freezes..then stop until it warms up again. ...good luck..this is a easy way.sorry.. i like to put berries in pots..first of august. There pretty tough little plants....xo
Thanks Luke. I'm going to show this to my wife. I think we can get some free blueberry plants going out way. We always buy our blueberries from a Mennonite Community Farmers Market near our house. They grow really good berries.
Thanks for the video, I will try it. I bought lychee in a can. I took 5 of the seeds which germinated as you just did, and lo and behold, I have 3 little lychee trees. they are quite small still, after 2 years. thank you for letting me share.
+Interested in your theory, from google search, "Growing from Seed. Lychee seeds must be planted within four to five days to increase the chance of germination. Refrigeration or any delay in planting severely reduces the viability of the seed. Lychee trees grown from seed don't grow true to the parent tree and take 10 to 25 years or more to produce fruits." Ten to 25 years before any fruit? Boy you must have great patience. :)
Wistfu1Stargazer Gardeners and foresters all plant for the future, whether it's tasty radishes on your plate in thirty days or a tree that will give oxygen for three hundred years.
Hello MI gardener, just a quick note to say thank you for documenting your efforts and results. Really well done. We just planted some blueberries last year, and it will be fun to try some of the techniques you've shared to propagate some additional plants. It will be a fun and educational project to try with our son, and one that will likely "give back" for the effort in the years to come. Thanks again, please keep up the good work, it's appreciated.
So glad you brought back this old video. I tried this very method last year only with frozen blueberries to start with. Going to try it again with your fresh/old USA blueberries. Love your videos, thank you for all your well experienced advice.
This is not ideal experience. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
From the date on this video it has been almost 3 years so I was curious how the seedlings from the store bought plant turned out? Thanks for your time!
You wont get one because sprouting blueberries from seed is crazy. If you want a blueberry bush go to your local nursery or order one from a mail order co.
@@jemadamson2715First of all they need cross-pollination which means you wont get a true plant from a cross-pollonated seed , next it will take an awful long time for that seed to turn into a bearing bush if i had to guess at least 10 years.
@@jemadamson2715 Jem if you do it by seed you may not live long enough to taste the fruit ,besides it wont be the same fruit that the seed came from because of cross-pollination it will be something totaly different.
I've planted many blueberries seeds and gave up. Good to know I need to be more patient! Thank you! Ill try that baggie trick too. Will keep you posted. Thanks again for the info!!
Thank you. Your instructions were very clear. And thank you for pointing out that it would be good to also get some from a nursery so you'd know the varieties you're getting.
Thanks! I know a person with some really great verities and likely not willing to make cuttings, though, she does give berries away. These are already fit for my region and are truly robust, so seeds from these should be a promising experiment.
I'd love to see what they looked like at each step! We are about 2 yrs in and our blueberry bushes are still twigs! If you could do more seedlings to planting videos that would be great!
Next time spend a little money on a blueberry shrub from a nursery that has legitimate named cultivars that are bred for size, flavor, and production. You'll have fruit within one year. It's really best not to listen to this youtuber. While he's "inspiring" he is not educating educating anyone on cultivar selection, what it means, and how to do it. It's a big waste of time, space. and money when you can have fruit within months or within a year from knowing what to look for and how to find them which is far more specific than anything he has said.
@@violetviolet888 Why are you here then? the video literally says "How to grow from store bought blueberries for free" and still here you are moaning? And everyone who is not a simpleton will know seedlings will take longer to grow then a cutting, well done captain obvious........... I have blueberry cuttings ordered online and some started from seeds from store bought blueberries, all taste nice, the cuttings are faster sure and cost money, but the seeds are FREE and it's fun watching something you started from seed grow into a big plant.
@@violetviolet888 How is it a waste when it literally works? and what money when it's free? do you even know what you're typing? You're growing a bush that lasts for 50+ years, it takes a couple of years to bare fruit.. like most long living fruiting plants/trees.
@@violetviolet888 You're telling people to buy an established plant rather than free seeds as it takes less time.. obviously a bigger established plant takes less time as it's established .. A bit obvious ... This is for people who want to do it for free, like the title says, or for people who cant order plants online, or for whatever reason they want to do it, for me it was because I wanted to try from seed, to see how it goes, from a couple of blueberries I got many seeds and 40 free plants to add to my collection of blueberries I ordered online and buying online I know 40 plants would cost A LOT
Just found your channel and love it. Question? Is it possible to put the old berries in the freezer for two weeks but skip the blender/washing/baggy steps and plant the whole blueberry into a soil-less mix already potted up? Seems like it would be a more natural method as they fall off the plant and multiply that way. :)
didn't even show the seed sprout or a single plant... I am disappointed I watched this whole video and don't even know if this technique actually works. That is what I want to see!
if i'm not seeing result, i'm not wasting time trying this. i find it worth just spending 10 bucks and actually buying and already established plant. heck it probably saves a ton of time as well.
Yes, I plan to! My blueberries have been in freezer for nearly weeks. Thank you for so much detailed info in this short lil' tutorial. (Even keeping same-type plants together for pollination purposes. That explains why my bell peppers had a little heat to them last summer.) I appreciate the time you take & the info you share in these videos
Great video Luke! I love growing my Sunshine Blue blueberries! They are so good picked fresh from the garden vs the store!! It's crazy how different the taste is when growing your own produce! Thanks so much for sharing as always!
My family has had private property in abundance for decades and one of our biggest regrets is not planting many different orchards of apples, pears, plums, etc. also Meyer lemon trees can grow amazingly indoors and very fruitful for colder climates. We are just now making a greenhouse. We live in zone 7. My parents are now 60. I wish we had started when they were 40 so they could really see the success of it while here on earth. I pray they have another 30 years with me because god I love them so much.
I loved this episode. I reply as I hoped you could give us part 2. What media are you using after the sprouts come out of the bag? Do you put them directly into the earth at that time or into a pot for awhile? Please do part 2. Thank you.
ProTip for more immediate gratification, grow squash from seeds that you pulled out of grocery squashes. I have a bumper crop of kabochas and butternuts
I agree with you. Last year I bought one butternut squash, planted the seeds and ended up last fall with NINTY SEVEN SQUASH. 😁😁😁 Now that, my friend, is a wise investment and use of time. 😂
Thanks for this tip! Why didn't I think of this as I'm sitting here ordering seeds....and I have butternut, acorn and kombucha(?) squash in the kitchen!
Save yourself the time. He didn't show any germination and was 'also' going to buy store bushes. As far as I know, the best and quickest way to get free bushes is by taking cuttings.
I grew from locally grown berries a while ago and while some of the plants didn't do so great. We got about 6 that have been better than anything I have found. After talking to the grower I know he said that they constantly grow out the hybrids to see if they can improve on things. They actually have 2 fields that came from their own fruit and they are well adapted to the area.
It seems kinda silly, but some of us just like sprouting seeds and growing the plants. It makes me feel like I’m getting away with something! Free plants!
@@sandrabeck8788 I do too. I have a lemon tree I grew from a seed on my windowsill. However, given he didn't even manage to germinate his seeds in the video there is nothing of value in the video. Waste of time.
@Allie Smith, You may or may not ever grow a tree that produces fruit as avocados go. According to my research commercial avocados are grafted to grow fruit, so most seeds will not produce a fruit---just the plant.
Lucky you. I have yet to get an avocado to sprout. Maybe cuz I'm using foreign fruit seed. I'm in North NY gets -neg 30⁰. I have Orange lemon grapefruit papaya mango, dragon fruit, tamarind plants( I dwarf bring inside of course). 5-7 yrs for citrice trees just 6-8 mos for dragon fruit( cactus)
The blender trick is great. I always put veggies in cups to let ferment and the seeds fall to the bottom clean of any membrane but this is one trick is didn’t know and glad I saw it. I just got done smashing 10-12 blue berries with my fingers into a cup to ferment to get the seeds. Wish I had saw this first lol
Very informitive and well thought out! Thank you for including all the details about radiation to length of time to expect fruit. Me and my little ones can't wait to try this method and watch more of your videos.
Got out and about in Rockland MA yesterday and was able to collect some very mature, wild blueberries. Tons of fully grown seeds from them and we will be seeing what germinates!
Leave the blueberries to rot in a closed bucket and then dump the bucket to the worms and compost and you got seedlings. I did that with store bought melons. Vermicompost is easier and faster ! oh ya and all the seeds sprouted..... i was picking them by the handfuls
I'm in Australia, South East Queensland to be more specific, and I have tried this with a couple of different brands that I bought at Woolworths and have had great success. Granted, I'm only at the seedling stage (approximately 120mm) but I had no trouble stratifying and germinating what appeared to be the majority of seeds I had. I kept the blueberries in the freezer for 35 days then I put them and a little bit of water in a small jar with a lid and shook the jar for a while which had the same effect as the blender. This method definitely works in my experience
OMG, you just confirmed my suspension about sprouting avocadoes... radiation. I used to be able to sprout avocadoes easily, but over the last few years.. NOTHING. Great instructions, can't wait to try, but will have to wait until the New Jersey berries come in next year🙂.
I've had a lot of great success growing tomatoes squash pumpkin bell peppers hot peppers and melon from this process that he is doing from store-bought food. But I've never tried blueberries so this year 2021 I will try blueberry.
so true! I'm going to use this method to plant lots of blueberries! I believe I will still be alive in 2-4 years to enjoy these, it's not that long if you consider most people live for 65-75 years!
Oh my ! I’m loving this how to , learned A SUPER LOT here ! Tried to plant a plant last year - epic fail . Going try again this year ! Think I realized what I did wrong ? Trying again ! Hope I’m successful this time , thanks so much 👍!! Excited to try again 😊thank you !
Disclaimer, I didn't dedicate time to read 1,166 comments, so may be repetitive with others. Anyway, my biggest issue is that the sweetness and flavor has been bred out of today's store-bought blueberries, even those from New Jersey. They were once my favorite fruit [many childhood belly-aches from over-indulging when Mom wasn't looking] along with watermelon where the same flavorless issue is present. I loved your video and soon as I can find some wild berries I will be following your advice. Thanks.
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I want someone to give you a show!!! I was going to look for videos on blueberries and this one popped up in the margin! Just tried doing this with strawberries. And, like you, I have used wet paper towels in a bag to soak a lot of seeds to speed sprouting. I’m an environmental scientist, whose garden has been my best teacher. It makes me want to get down on my knees and praise the innate intelligence of all things that survive here despite my ignorance and custodial failures. That said, I just want u to know how much I appreciate your videos. I can imagine how much effort goes into delivering an overview of a topic in a short time. I get leave each sitting with valuable insight (I was certain planting herbs under my tomatoes would help reduce water loss and protect the plant from pathogens. I have Italian & Greek varieties of basil & oregano, rosemary, thyme, spearmint & more. Gonna left the herbs & weeds naturalize as ground cover this year while I work on designing attractive trellises & approaches to keeping fruit off of the ground & maximizing space to accommodate more fruit trees). Just wanted to send a love scream. Cheering you for teaching in this forum. The more people know, the more good risks they will take & the more benefits they will reap. A food forest in your space is one of the most environmentally friendly things each of us can do as long as we respect the weeds and the pests and skip the snail killer, herbicides and other chemicals that are unnecessary. You are literally empowering everyone to succeed at growing food-in a time when shortages are expanding (there has been no wheat, zucchini shelf was empty by 12 pm starting 6 weeks before formal distancing order, meat & ALL frozen foods were empty early in the days). If u’ve done anything on zucchini (I’ve got 7 varieties growing now, including a Korean one that I cut the upper leaves on to get rid of a pest I didn’t recognize, now it’s become a rambling, trailing plant! Lol) and potatoes, I’ll look for them to grow that knowledge too! Thank u, so much, for sharing what u know! Trusting you will be rewarded with a huge following & so much more in the years to come!
If you do your research you can get nursery stock plants for dirt cheap. nurseries often make thousands of plants to sell whole and will have extras. I just picked up 40 duke blueberry plants at 3 bucks a piece. they are two years old. call around and look on craigslist!
Good info. Also often the nursery will have "sub standard" stock that is not up to their quality standards for retail or wholesale selling. Often its just " cosmetic" faults like a broken branch, etc. Most of these go into the compost pile. Often you can get them just for free by asking. Typically within 1-2 years they will become viable, healthy plants and produce well.
3 dollars for a piece of a plant? If you stop by nurseries and just show appreciation or maybe allow old anne to give you a quick hand job, you can get all the free plants and fresh blueberries and ripe blueberry pie all year long......... or just buy a black ski mask and a knife and a bag to put all the parts you chop off and just go and bury them in your backyard .....shh5
This is so great!. I lived in GA. and we bought 3 different blueberry Plants. In 40 years, they grew to be huge. Over 10 ft. High and 3-4 feet wide. We had so many blueberries in July, we picked and froze them. We had them all year until next July. Unfortunately, I sold that house and retired and moved to N.C. I want blueberries again, but, I am in a duplex. Should I plant them in a bucket, so I can take them with me, when I move. How long can a blueberry plant live in a bucket?
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I live in GA too and I neglected my blueberry & raspberry bushes I planted in containers - I bought another raspberry & blueberry plant and this time I’m planting in the Earth hoping it will be as successful as yours!
I make green smoothies with bluebberries and raspberries all the time. Every time the seeds separate at the bottom and I end up eating them. I should plant them next time. I would’ve drink that blueberry water mixture or made a smoothie out of it.
My have a small blueberry bush right now and she is so pretty. I have her in a pot because I live in Florida, and my yard is mostly sand. She already has tons of blueberries on her. She does like her dirt wet.
He said in his strawberry video that he left his blueberry sprouts in a ziploc during a vacation and everything was moldy when he got back, or else he would have been able to transplant them.
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Lots of store bought stuff works, even though people say oh no, they are radiated. I just tested about 200 seeds out of a large, supermarket cantaloupe, and even the floated germinated.
Bethany's World I bought heirloom tomatoes from a Safeway grocery store. I kept some of the seeds. The seeds grew into large tomato plants when I planted them and they bore much fruit.
Some of the BEST sweet red peppers I have ever grown have been from food peppers from Costco -- both the little lunchbox size bell peppers (actually I had a yellow one, too, that was delicious!) and the long sweet pointed peppers! You just have to grow them knowing that it might have been the fruit of a hybrid plant so it might not be the exact same fruit from the seed, but it worked just fine for me, better than seeds I've bought!
I will combine this technique with using soil instead of paper towels because in the past, I found that when seeds germinate through paper towels, their roots tend to stick or go through paper towels which make it very hard to get them out without tearing up some of the roots even when I am being very careful...especially small seeds like these. If big seeds like mango, etc...then the root is big enough to handle without breaking. Thanks.
Someone told me once that if you want grass to grow fast and hardy blend the seeds with beer. I did and wow! I assume it would work with water and yeast and any seed.
The Blueberrybounce is a well known gold panning technique developed by John "Blueberry" Andrews from Nome Alaska. In a roundabout way it's the same thing you are doing to retrieve those blueberry seeds.
This is so great to know! We bought a place with aged blueberry bushes. Now I can increase our berries and replace a couple older ones that have died. (Place was abandoned for years)
This is NOT a suggested method to "increase" your blueberries. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
Omg wish I saw this a few years ago! Threw out so many and just last week bought my first seedling. Can’t wait until I have blueberries and follow your tutorial on growing my own from seed! ❤️
This is exactly why you should not listen to this person. Buying a blueberry shrub from a nursery that has legitimate named cultivars that are bred for size, flavor, and production. You'll have fruit within one year. It's really best not to listen to this youtuber. While he's "inspiring" he is not educating anyone on cultivar selection, what it means, and how to do it. It's a big waste of time, space. and money when you can have fruit within months or within a year from knowing what to look for and how to find them which is far more specific than anything he has said.
Really enjoy your videos. Hope you continue to teach. Enjoy growing plants & really get excited learning how to use kitchen scraps to start new plants. Can you grow leeks from leftover roots of grocery purchased leeks? Keep up the great sharing!
Yes I am definitely going to try this. We live in Northern Missouri on acreage where we raise cow/calf. Bought place from homesteading family who had never done anything with land. So when we qualified for an EQIP program and had soil tested our meadows ranged from 4.4-4.8 for 17 sites and 5.0-5.3 on 3 covering a bit over 200 acres. I’ve been to Springfield Missouri in 2019 for a Blueberry Conference now just deciding whether or not to section off a part for a side business. Had 2 plants I bought and killed after 2 years because they were Southern variety. Didn’t know. So glad Extension System is available for us. Your channel has information I’m constantly looking to. Keep up the good work.
Don't bother with this method. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
Hi, I found your vieo really interesting. i am definetly going to try it. I have my old blueberries already in the freezer. Can you make a follow up of some seeds?? I would love to see them growing.
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As a fellow Michigander I prefer to get my gardening advice from another sap sucker from south of the bridge. However, I live in Texas now. I think you should do a web series where you come build a MI gardner garden for an MI fellow in Texas ;)
Doesn't surprise me in the least. 😂 We actually *do* have about 6-8 blueberry bushes in our back yard. And every year by the last week of June throughout the first 2 weeks of August or so they produce literally a hella lot more blueberries than we can ever possibly eat (even after freezing at least a gallon or so to last the winter for waffles/pancakes/muffins etc..). Aaand every Summer- instead of just letting so many of them go to waste or just letting the birds & insects & critters eat most of them...... we try to just give away as many of them as possible. We tell most ppl after they get allllll kinds of excited after hearing that we have fresh homegrown ORGANIC af blueberries that they are more than welcome to take as many as they want...as long as they come pick them, sort them and wash them themselves (we only do all that for our OWN berries that we keep). The second that they hear that we will *NOT* be picking/sorting/cleaning any blueberries for *them* first before they get them (like we do our own)......... funny how all of a sudden , just like flicking a switch..... they suddenly *DO NOT* want any fresh organic blueberries nearly as much as they literally just *said* they did, once they learn that they'll have to actually put forth a bit of (gasp!!) *WORK & EFFORT* in order to GET them. 😂😂😂 The birds & bunnies & June bugs etc...certainly *do* appreciate their laziness, though.
Thank you Berry much!! Fab video!! Raised in New England where blueberries grow wild. As you say , seeing them dry up ⬆️ in fridge hurts. My prior attempts of growing from my leftover inedible failed . You give me hope and sharing! + subscribing
Hi, thank you for doing this video. You have helped me so much. I went to my local u pick plantation and I am seed saving! I am dealing with 12 1/4 lbs of Elliott Blueberries currently from that plantation.
Same. I was all like "4 YEARS???!!!!!" *dies* holy $h!t. Way to not have enough blueberries to make blueberry pie and other stuff next year for Christmas. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 As a future farmer and much more, I say that that is true but bull$h!t
Im going to do that with wild blueberries that grow around here..im from Cape Breton Island N.S..eastern.tks for the tips..i do have tall bush growing in my back yard..
So having worked in a blueberry breeding lab, I can tell you that seeds you sprout from store bought blueberries will be a random seedlings (NOT true to type). Therefore each seedling will be genetically different and will have varying fruit quality and plant characteristic. Additionally, depending on where you live, you need to account for chilling hours. If you buy blueberries harvested in Florida and plant them in Michigan your plants will flower too early because they need very little to no chilling hours. Vise versa if you plant Michigan blueberries in Georgia or Florida they may not flower at all because they need much more chill. So you can start your own blueberries at home, but make sure they came from a similar climate and be prepared for plants with very different fruit quality such as size, and sugar content than the original parent whose berries you purchased from the store.
This 😆
Just for entertainment, I was going to try this with some local blueberries for this ^^^ very reason. Also I suspect that these local berries will be more acclimated to the extreme heat we get in the summer which no blueberry plant likes.
Thank you!
Thank you very much for posting this additional information. I live in Florida and was unaware that blueberries are grown here. I will have to look for Florida grown blueberries. As for consistency of size and quality of fruit, I'm not reselling them so I don't object to variation as long as I get enough to have blueberries on my cereal every day. Our local garden shops don't sell blueberry plants and the only seeds I have found for sale are from northern climates.
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How you know you're a gardener -- when you say "one to two years" = instant gratification! Made me smile.
Just wanted to let you know I'm in my fourth year of my blueberry bush. This year I'm pretty sure I will get blueberries. I did this for raspberries too and my raspberries came last summer. While I know everyone has their need for speed and results, gardening is not for that. It requires patience. Thanks for saving me money. My kids eat so much fruit and this year I finally will have free fruit. Well worth the wait. I skinned my strawberries and let them dry on paper towel, rubbed the seeds of and they planted and took off. I learnt that method from a you tube channel called ckmcalgary. Figured I would give you an update so you knew you helped someone out and that this video was a success 🥂
Can I use dried berries to grow plants from seeds?
HELPFUL! Thanks! Cheers to you, too!
@@Peoplespilates I haven't tried dried blueberries. The ones I dehydrate, my kids eat all of them LOL. However, it's worth experimenting and trying it out.
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@@wendelinerobert6242 I'm coping and smiling because I run my own businesses 💪🤟
Love this! I planted blueberry bushes last year and now my plants are two years old and I'm getting lots of blueberries. Love the idea of making new plants from my own seed
I sprout all of my seeds this way, have for probably 20 years. I don't put them in a dark place however, I put the bag in my garden window that gets sun about 5 hours a day. I've never had a fail yet.
Wendy Chiari Warrior do you put them directly into the ground once they've sprouted?
Good question.
Living Life with Momma Wendy Waeghe yes...we have cherry trees growing...:-)
I did this same process with organic lemon seeds only placing on a window sill. I now have a lemon tree about 4 inches tall.
@@rebeccawhitt8120 how cool is that! I'm gonna try that.
I'm glad to see people taking an interest in gardening even if it is just in container garden on the balcony of your apartment. Everyone needs to get back to real life. That is, how non-industrial life really works. As city dwellers we can miss a lot. If you have kids take them outside show them ant colonies in the grass and birds building a nest.
Buy zinnia or sunflower seeds with a cheap bag of potting soil. Start a few seeds in plastic cups and later move to a larger pot and watch them go from seed to flower and back to seed again. Dried sunflowers heads can be set out for birds to eat. Squirrels love them as well! Humans were not meant to be isolated from nature. Even if it's just growing one zinnia or basil plant on your windowsill, start today.
Beautifully said 🙏🏾💛
Love it. That’s my belief as well, do what you can with what you got, just plant it!
So many kids in the city have no idea where their food comes from or what it takes to grow and harvest food.
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I tried this method several years in a row a few years back when I lived in an apartment. Failed every time. Gave up. Then you dropped that knowledge bomb about domestic berries only and I am sure that was the issue. You've awoken a sleeping giant of an experiment! Please show us an update after a few weeks!
Joe Mac the blender is damaging the seeds
The seeds themselves will result in plant variations, most with undesirable fruit. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
This is why you shouldn't listen to this person. Next time spend a little money on a blueberry shrub from a nursery that has legitimate named cultivars that are bred for size, flavor, and production. You'll have fruit within one year. It's really best not to listen to this youtuber. While he's "inspiring" he is not educating educating anyone on cultivar selection, what it means, and how to do it. It's a big waste of time, space. and money when you can have fruit within months or within a year from knowing what to look for and how to find them which is far more specific than anything he has said.
i will start now so i can make a blueberry pie when i retire.
great listener lol it’s not that bad. Thumbs up for your comment though haha
Lol
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LOL. I love it.
I have 10lbs of blueberries frozen from an Amish store. Bought for my neighbor going thru chemo to make smoothies. She only needed 5 lbs so now I’m going to try this method for my garden. Thank you!!
I remember in my home country of Poland our wild blueberries were super dark inside as compared to the ones in US. It was fun watching everyone's mouths and teeth turn blue as we devoured the delicious berries!
Thank you for this video. I will definitely try to sprout some! I already have few mango and avocado trees I grew from a seed. One tree produced fruit this year!!!
The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
It would be worth it to try and get plans of those wild blueberries. The darker the fruit the higher in its nutrition, antioxidant and polyphenol content. I have no doubt that the blueberries we eat now offer only a fraction of the health benefits to the wild variety. Especially when grown in an industrial manner. Yhe soil does not contain the beneficial microbes and nutrients that it should. Mass farming equals a lower nutritional product. Grow your own, organically if possible.
I started Polona Raspberries two years ago. The first year I harvested a fall crop of 10 quarts . Last year I had a small early July harvest. In the months of September and October I picked and froze 10 gallons plus what we ate fresh.
The plants are doing great and I expect even better results this fall.
I'm 70 and understand that no one my age can expect to stand under the shade of a tree that I just planted.
Raspberries gave me much satisfaction. I had blueberry plants this year but none of the six survived.
I gonna try again.
God bless.
Keep it green.
the berries you are talking about are different - they are called bilberries or European blueberries.
Wild Canadian blueberries have darker skins and less pale insides that leave a lot more pigment in your mouth than the store-bought ones. Even the ones that say “Wild Canadian” on the package just aren’t the same at all as the real ones.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It boggles my mind that there are people in your comment section making criticisms about terms you have used. Videos like this one, where knowledge of how to grow food is being shared is a public service. It's an education not being offered in the majority of classrooms and could make the difference of people going hungry or not. Personally I am grateful, and truly appreciate your effort.
ariana slater-merrill exactly
this guy had to talk about fck all for 10 minutes so he can cash out from youtube ads since his videos are child friendly he will earn a pretty som with this "educational free" knowledge. if someone is going hungry he will not have the time/space/motivation to wait 4 years till some blueberries come safe his life. Wake up from ur fairy tail world.
yo right but 4 years of waiting?
I agree. Free education about growing your own food on the cheap. Waiting for good quality fruit and vegetables is worth it and then you don’t have to buy them from others. For those that can’t wait - buy them and make others rich.
@@Johnna192 Radishes grow in 3 weeks. Mung bean sprouts in 3 days. Let's hear your other many excuses and hate.
Its been four years and your video says it takes about four years to grow fruit. I'd love to hear how your free blueberry harvest has worked out this summer!
@ICEYPRISON same here, I saw this comment and then browsed in the channel for an update
I’d like to know too!
I would love to know too
I also would love to hear an update
Ditto... do tell...
This is what I love about the gardening community: 1-2 years is considered instant gratification! I don't even have the patience to plan for next week
Haha! I can empathize with that. When I was a kid I'd plant things and keep checking all day to see if they grew yet.
Don't get into forestry, trees take forever, but it's cool 10 years later to see the growth.
Yasumi Ⓥ Teaches patence and we get "surprises"...lol
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This is what I hate about amateur garden video makers is they want instant gratification from a one to two-year process so they just post the first part of it and never actually follow up confirming the first part was useful let alone actually wait the full two years to show the whole process.
But they'll put a thumbnail with pictures of Bountiful blueberries in a video about how to grow these
Same
If you let the seeds dry (OR ANY SEEDS 4 THAT MATTER) . you can put them in a Rinsed out Large McCormicks pepper can and sprinkle at will. also works for a lot of small seeds, wildflowers especially.
ynotcouger,
Can it be any pepper can or does it HAVE to be a McCormicks ? LOL
Good idea by the way. Poppy seeds come to mind.
Cool tip! Thanks!
MIgardener, I'm sure that I am not the only one who would like to see the outcome of your store bought blueberry seed progress. Its now been 5 years and I haven't seen an update on your channel! Look forward to viewing the update video. Thank you kindly.
Yes please update us on your crops
Thank you for sharing. Not tried blueberry yet but I did butternut squash seeds from store bought and planted them straight along my fence and god almighty I got plenty of fat squashes. I also planted a germinated grapefruit seed that I found in a fruit 12 years ago that grows into a big tree and last year it gave us tons of harvest. So thankful.
Squash is an annual, not a perennial shrub. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
Thank you for this tutorial tip. I did it in 4 weeks. Now my blueberry sprouts are in a mini-greenhouse container.
I’ve a huge harvest from a local organic farmer sitting in my frig atm. I’m inspired. 2027 will bring us much fruit. Ty for this vid.
I bought some lavender seeds from migardener 100% germination rate for me. Thanks Luke!!
Nice!, I can't wait for my seeds to get in so I can get started!! :D :D
Hopefully we'll all appreciate the blueberries we have from the store more now...knowing the time and patience growers put in to it!! Fascinating and good to know! Many thanks
I’ve had the same blueberry plant for over 16 years. It was transplanted twice when we moved, and finally transplanted a third time into a pot. It’s been producing masses of fruit each year in the pot. Aside from adding fertiliser, I grow coriander in the same pot. For some reason, this produces our best coriander too.
A video of what they looked like when sprouted in a few weeks would be really good too.
I've only been in the blueberry business for 6 months and yeah this is sorta right except the plants will fruit in the first 2 years. They like super soft growing medium such as sawdust, and its variety dependent too
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I"m retired and besides woodworking, I began a facination with growing plants from seeds. Potatoes (from the true seed pods), apples (from the same apple different colored leaves), pears, an now cherry trees. Now I will try blueberries (she just bought some).
This video was an answer to a prayer! I was going insane trying to find a source for wild blueberry plants - now I can try to sprout my own - THANK YOU!!!
I just take whole blueberries and plant them one inch apart...in a large planter...only the depth of the berries....they were picked by me and my friends from blueberries Grown around here...never radiated...makes nice little clomps ..and they can be left in the planters for four years.
When do you plant them what time of year?
I just asked this question, and now I see your answer! Thanks!
Plant the berries in the fall.....make sure the berries are ripe...squish each berry as you plant it cover with soil...water and leave in half shade...water till it freezes..then stop until it warms up again. ...good luck..this is a easy way.sorry.. i like to put berries in pots..first of august. There pretty tough little plants....xo
@@lynnbyers423 thanks ❣️❣️
Thank you, I was thinking the same thing!
Thanks Luke. I'm going to show this to my wife. I think we can get some free blueberry plants going out way. We always buy our blueberries from a Mennonite Community Farmers Market near our house. They grow really good berries.
Thanks for the video, I will try it.
I bought lychee in a can. I took 5 of the seeds which germinated as you just did, and lo and behold, I have 3 little lychee trees. they are quite small still, after 2 years. thank you for letting me share.
+Interested in your theory, from google search, "Growing from Seed. Lychee seeds must be planted within four to five days to increase the chance of germination. Refrigeration or any delay in planting severely reduces the viability of the seed. Lychee trees grown from seed don't grow true to the parent tree and take 10 to 25 years or more to produce fruits."
Ten to 25 years before any fruit? Boy you must have great patience. :)
Wistfu1Stargazer Gardeners and foresters all plant for the future, whether it's tasty radishes on your plate in thirty days or a tree that will give oxygen for three hundred years.
Hello MI gardener, just a quick note to say thank you for documenting your efforts and results. Really well done. We just planted some blueberries last year, and it will be fun to try some of the techniques you've shared to propagate some additional plants. It will be a fun and educational project to try with our son, and one that will likely "give back" for the effort in the years to come. Thanks again, please keep up the good work, it's appreciated.
So glad you brought back this old video. I tried this very method last year only with frozen blueberries to start with. Going to try it again with your fresh/old USA blueberries. Love your videos, thank you for all your well experienced advice.
This is not ideal experience. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
From the date on this video it has been almost 3 years so I was curious how the seedlings from the store bought plant turned out? Thanks for your time!
You wont get one because sprouting blueberries from seed is crazy. If you want a blueberry bush go to your local nursery or order one from a mail order co.
@@roccoconte2960 why is it crazy?
@@jemadamson2715First of all they need cross-pollination which means you wont get a true plant from a cross-pollonated seed , next it will take an awful long time for that seed to turn into a bearing bush if i had to guess at least 10 years.
@@roccoconte2960 interesting. He said 3, but by how long it's taken my dad to fruit plants from seed i believe it will take quite a many years lol
@@jemadamson2715 Jem if you do it by seed you may not live long enough to taste the fruit ,besides it wont be the same fruit that the seed came from because of cross-pollination it will be something totaly different.
I've planted many blueberries seeds and gave up. Good to know I need to be more patient! Thank you! Ill try that baggie trick too. Will keep you posted. Thanks again for the info!!
Thank you. Your instructions were very clear. And thank you for pointing out that it would be good to also get some from a nursery so you'd know the varieties you're getting.
Thanks! I know a person with some really great verities and likely not willing to make cuttings, though, she does give berries away. These are already fit for my region and are truly robust, so seeds from these should be a promising experiment.
I'd love to see what they looked like at each step! We are about 2 yrs in and our blueberry bushes are still twigs! If you could do more seedlings to planting videos that would be great!
Next time spend a little money on a blueberry shrub from a nursery that has legitimate named cultivars that are bred for size, flavor, and production. You'll have fruit within one year. It's really best not to listen to this youtuber. While he's "inspiring" he is not educating educating anyone on cultivar selection, what it means, and how to do it. It's a big waste of time, space. and money when you can have fruit within months or within a year from knowing what to look for and how to find them which is far more specific than anything he has said.
@@violetviolet888 Why are you here then? the video literally says "How to grow from store bought blueberries for free" and still here you are moaning?
And everyone who is not a simpleton will know seedlings will take longer to grow then a cutting, well done captain obvious...........
I have blueberry cuttings ordered online and some started from seeds from store bought blueberries, all taste nice, the cuttings are faster sure and cost money, but the seeds are FREE and it's fun watching something you started from seed grow into a big plant.
@@Adrian-cw8yu To educate and not waste weeks, months, years of people's time, money, and space. I'm not the only one either.
@@violetviolet888 How is it a waste when it literally works? and what money when it's free? do you even know what you're typing?
You're growing a bush that lasts for 50+ years, it takes a couple of years to bare fruit.. like most long living fruiting plants/trees.
@@violetviolet888 You're telling people to buy an established plant rather than free seeds as it takes less time.. obviously a bigger established plant takes less time as it's established .. A bit obvious ... This is for people who want to do it for free, like the title says, or for people who cant order plants online, or for whatever reason they want to do it, for me it was because I wanted to try from seed, to see how it goes, from a couple of blueberries I got many seeds and 40 free plants to add to my collection of blueberries I ordered online and buying online I know 40 plants would cost A LOT
Hey, it doesn’t hurt to try. No
Matter if they became a hybrid or just a beautiful bush, you have planted something beautiful.
I love experimenting.
Just found your channel and love it. Question? Is it possible to put the old berries in the freezer for two weeks but skip the blender/washing/baggy steps and plant the whole blueberry into a soil-less mix already potted up? Seems like it would be a more natural method as they fall off the plant and multiply that way. :)
How'd your blueberry plants grow using your natural method?
didn't even show the seed sprout or a single plant... I am disappointed I watched this whole video and don't even know if this technique actually works. That is what I want to see!
He is saying how to make seeds viable.
@@AE_AnarchistAlexcianEmpire69Bi I agree with Ziad, we want to see the END result so we know it works before we spend our 'coin'.
if i'm not seeing result, i'm not wasting time trying this. i find it worth just spending 10 bucks and actually buying and already established plant. heck it probably saves a ton of time as well.
This is a funny comment. This guy is clearly very reliable
You people are rude. This was a great informative video!
Yes, I plan to! My blueberries have been in freezer for nearly weeks.
Thank you for so much detailed info in this short lil' tutorial. (Even keeping same-type plants together for pollination purposes. That explains why my bell peppers had a little heat to them last summer.) I appreciate the time you take & the info you share in these videos
Great video Luke! I love growing my Sunshine Blue blueberries! They are so good picked fresh from the garden vs the store!! It's crazy how different the taste is when growing your own produce! Thanks so much for sharing as always!
My family has had private property in abundance for decades and one of our biggest regrets is not planting many different orchards of apples, pears, plums, etc. also Meyer lemon trees can grow amazingly indoors and very fruitful for colder climates. We are just now making a greenhouse. We live in zone 7. My parents are now 60. I wish we had started when they were 40 so they could really see the success of it while here on earth. I pray they have another 30 years with me because god I love them so much.
I am buying dwarf fruit trees they make fruit in 1 to 2 years
I loved this episode. I reply as I hoped you could give us part 2. What media are you using after the sprouts come out of the bag? Do you put them directly into the earth at that time or into a pot for awhile? Please do part 2. Thank you.
Part two please
I also would love to see how you get the spouted seeds into pots.
ditto
I would love to see how you get them from the sproutted stage into a pot to get it started. Sometimes handling them is a little dicey.
ProTip for more immediate gratification, grow squash from seeds that you pulled out of grocery squashes. I have a bumper crop of kabochas and butternuts
I agree with you.
Last year I bought one butternut squash, planted the seeds and ended up last fall with NINTY SEVEN SQUASH. 😁😁😁
Now that, my friend, is a wise investment and use of time. 😂
i use all seeds from store bought fruits.
Thanks for this tip! Why didn't I think of this as I'm sitting here ordering seeds....and I have butternut, acorn and kombucha(?) squash in the kitchen!
@@darlenemorse3650 Kombucha is that fungusy stuff you make tea out of and kabocha is the orangey squash. Enjoy your garden!
Save yourself the time. He didn't show any germination and was 'also' going to buy store bushes. As far as I know, the best and quickest way to get free bushes is by taking cuttings.
I grew from locally grown berries a while ago and while some of the plants didn't do so great. We got about 6 that have been better than anything I have found. After talking to the grower I know he said that they constantly grow out the hybrids to see if they can improve on things. They actually have 2 fields that came from their own fruit and they are well adapted to the area.
I was profusely annoyed by this. This is borderline clickbait. I want my 10 minutes back, sir!
It seems kinda silly, but some of us just like sprouting seeds and growing the plants. It makes me feel like I’m getting away with something! Free plants!
@@sandrabeck8788 I do too. I have a lemon tree I grew from a seed on my windowsill. However, given he didn't even manage to germinate his seeds in the video there is nothing of value in the video. Waste of time.
@@blackwater4707 no
Hey four years is way better than the 10+ years I'll be waiting for my avocado fruit ! lol
🤣 I'm with you there! I have three 1-year-old trees that I want to try grafting onto this spring. Hopefully that shaves 4 or 5 years off my wait time.
@@cristiaolson7327 Even if they never fruit my tree makes me happy looking at it 💜
@Allie Smith, You may or may not ever grow a tree that produces fruit as avocados go. According to my research commercial avocados are grafted to grow fruit, so most seeds will not produce a fruit---just the plant.
Yeah make sure no GMOs
Lucky you. I have yet to get an avocado to sprout. Maybe cuz I'm using foreign fruit seed. I'm in North NY gets -neg 30⁰. I have Orange lemon grapefruit papaya mango, dragon fruit, tamarind plants( I dwarf bring inside of course). 5-7 yrs for citrice trees just 6-8 mos for dragon fruit( cactus)
I was hoping you would show the next step--the transfer from your sprouting nursery to separate plants.
No chance on that happening.
Me too
Mare Graphix I
Me too.
Tweezers might work
The blender trick is great. I always put veggies in cups to let ferment and the seeds fall to the bottom clean of any membrane but this is one trick is didn’t know and glad I saw it. I just got done smashing 10-12 blue berries with my fingers into a cup to ferment to get the seeds. Wish I had saw this first lol
Drink the blueberry water!!!
Dont discard it!
That is such a cool seed extraction method. Loved your video Even after 2 years
Very informitive and well thought out! Thank you for including all the details about radiation to length of time to expect fruit. Me and my little ones can't wait to try this method and watch more of your videos.
Got out and about in Rockland MA yesterday and was able to collect some very mature, wild blueberries. Tons of fully grown seeds from them and we will be seeing what germinates!
Have you got some plants growing now? Were the berries you found sweet?
@@debbabbit9283 Regrettably, no. I am not sure what went wrong, but I got zero seeds to germinate. Maybe they were not cold hardened enough?
@@MrMattDat 😟 Sorry!
I’m putting our blueberries in the freezer now, thank you for this incredible tutorial!
How'd yours turn out? Any sprouts?
Leave the blueberries to rot in a closed bucket and then dump the bucket to the worms and compost and you got seedlings. I did that with store bought melons. Vermicompost is easier and faster ! oh ya and all the seeds sprouted..... i was picking them by the handfuls
I'm in Australia, South East Queensland to be more specific, and I have tried this with a couple of different brands that I bought at Woolworths and have had great success. Granted, I'm only at the seedling stage (approximately 120mm) but I had no trouble stratifying and germinating what appeared to be the majority of seeds I had. I kept the blueberries in the freezer for 35 days then I put them and a little bit of water in a small jar with a lid and shook the jar for a while which had the same effect as the blender. This method definitely works in my experience
Yes I will do this! Easy process BUT four years?!!! At my age, I will forget about them!
OMG, you just confirmed my suspension about sprouting avocadoes... radiation. I used to be able to sprout avocadoes easily, but over the last few years.. NOTHING. Great instructions, can't wait to try, but will have to wait until the New Jersey berries come in next year🙂.
I've had a lot of great success growing tomatoes squash pumpkin bell peppers hot peppers and melon from this process that he is doing from store-bought food. But I've never tried blueberries so this year 2021 I will try blueberry.
Not until the end does he tel us it will take four years to get unpredictable fruit and that he is going to the nursery to buy blueberry plants.
Ok boomer.
Just what I needed...a bombastic millennial telling me something useless.
Hey, it's still worth a shot if you have land you need to cover! They will probably be good berries
Thank you. Now i will just finish eating my blueberries instead of trying to save them since they take so long to actually produce
Marlena Rasmussen , time flies so extra plants are a bonus ;)
So cool. Planning for the future. A wise man grows trees for a future man to sit under and enjoy.
so true! I'm going to use this method to plant lots of blueberries! I believe I will still be alive in 2-4 years to enjoy these, it's not that long if you consider most people live for 65-75 years!
Oh my ! I’m loving this how to , learned A SUPER LOT here ! Tried to plant a plant last year - epic fail . Going try again this year ! Think I realized what I did wrong ? Trying again ! Hope I’m successful this time , thanks so much 👍!! Excited to try again 😊thank you !
please make another video for the bluberry updates please
well i did just film it, so in a few weeks i certainly will!
Luke, you know people are impatient... Unfortunately. LoL
well thanks in advance! Just love watching updates and of course gardening
Syazwan Saroni
MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living
Disclaimer, I didn't dedicate time to read 1,166 comments, so may be repetitive with others. Anyway, my biggest issue is that the sweetness and flavor has been bred out of today's store-bought blueberries, even those from New Jersey. They were once my favorite fruit [many childhood belly-aches from over-indulging when Mom wasn't looking] along with watermelon where the same flavorless issue is present. I loved your video and soon as I can find some wild berries I will be following your advice. Thanks.
SEND ME SOME WILD BLUE BERRY'S!!! 💥
buy Maine berrys
@@plainsimple442 gotcha! Have had some nice ones from there. And they should be super-hardy!
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I want someone to give you a show!!! I was going to look for videos on blueberries and this one popped up in the margin! Just tried doing this with strawberries. And, like you, I have used wet paper towels in a bag to soak a lot of seeds to speed sprouting. I’m an environmental scientist, whose garden has been my best teacher. It makes me want to get down on my knees and praise the innate intelligence of all things that survive here despite my ignorance and custodial failures. That said, I just want u to know how much I appreciate your videos. I can imagine how much effort goes into delivering an overview of a topic in a short time. I get leave each sitting with valuable insight (I was certain planting herbs under my tomatoes would help reduce water loss and protect the plant from pathogens. I have Italian & Greek varieties of basil & oregano, rosemary, thyme, spearmint & more. Gonna left the herbs & weeds naturalize as ground cover this year while I work on designing attractive trellises & approaches to keeping fruit off of the ground & maximizing space to accommodate more fruit trees).
Just wanted to send a love scream. Cheering you for teaching in this forum. The more people know, the more good risks they will take & the more benefits they will reap. A food forest in your space is one of the most environmentally friendly things each of us can do as long as we respect the weeds and the pests and skip the snail killer, herbicides and other chemicals that are unnecessary. You are literally empowering everyone to succeed at growing food-in a time when shortages are expanding (there has been no wheat, zucchini shelf was empty by 12 pm starting 6 weeks before formal distancing order, meat & ALL frozen foods were empty early in the days). If u’ve done anything on zucchini (I’ve got 7 varieties growing now, including a Korean one that I cut the upper leaves on to get rid of a pest I didn’t recognize, now it’s become a rambling, trailing plant! Lol) and potatoes, I’ll look for them to grow that knowledge too!
Thank u, so much, for sharing what u know! Trusting you will be rewarded with a huge following & so much more in the years to come!
If you do your research you can get nursery stock plants for dirt cheap. nurseries often make thousands of plants to sell whole and will have extras. I just picked up 40 duke blueberry plants at 3 bucks a piece. they are two years old. call around and look on craigslist!
wow thats a deal
Good info. Also often the nursery will have "sub standard" stock that is not up to their quality standards for retail or wholesale selling. Often its just " cosmetic" faults like a broken branch, etc. Most of these go into the compost pile. Often you can get them just for free by asking.
Typically within 1-2 years they will become viable, healthy plants and produce well.
Exactly. I'd rather buy a cheap plant than wait 2-4 years!
3 dollars for a piece of a plant? If you stop by nurseries and just show appreciation or maybe allow old anne to give you a quick hand job, you can get all the free plants and fresh blueberries and ripe blueberry pie all year long......... or just buy a black ski mask and a knife and a bag to put all the parts you chop off and just go and bury them in your backyard .....shh5
This is so great!. I lived in GA. and we bought 3 different blueberry
Plants. In 40 years, they grew to be huge. Over 10 ft. High and 3-4 feet wide. We had so many blueberries in July, we picked and froze them. We had them all year until next July.
Unfortunately, I sold that house and retired and moved to N.C. I want blueberries again, but, I am in a duplex. Should I plant them in a bucket, so I can take them with me, when I move. How long can a blueberry plant live in a bucket?
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I live in GA too and I neglected my blueberry & raspberry bushes I planted in containers - I bought another raspberry & blueberry plant and this time I’m planting in the Earth hoping it will be as successful as yours!
I love blueberry so I am going to start growing it. Thanks for showing us how to get the seeds. I wouldn't of know how to do this.
“Float to the bottom”. Lol.
I love it.
I make green smoothies with bluebberries and raspberries all the time. Every time the seeds separate at the bottom and I end up eating them. I should plant them next time. I would’ve drink that blueberry water mixture or made a smoothie out of it.
he used old, half-rotting blueberries.... have fun drinking that.
My have a small blueberry bush right now and she is so pretty. I have her in a pot because I live in Florida, and my yard is mostly sand. She already has tons of blueberries on her. She does like her dirt wet.
I would like to see the follow-up to this video.
Where can I find the sprouted seeds continuation?
He said in his strawberry video that he left his blueberry sprouts in a ziploc during a vacation and everything was moldy when he got back, or else he would have been able to transplant them.
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Lots of store bought stuff works, even though people say oh no, they are radiated. I just tested about 200 seeds out of a large, supermarket cantaloupe, and even the floated germinated.
Bethany's World I bought heirloom tomatoes from a Safeway grocery store. I kept some of the seeds. The seeds grew into large tomato plants when I planted them and they bore much fruit.
I planted a store bought onion that was going bad. It flowered and made seeds. I saved the seeds but haven't planted them yet.
Huck Finn ya know I know.seeds have basic espirarion dates. I never hear anyone talking about that and a simple test to see if their any good.
Most seeds last for years beyond their expiration date. The only exception is seeds in the onion family. They die fast.
Some of the BEST sweet red peppers I have ever grown have been from food peppers from Costco -- both the little lunchbox size bell peppers (actually I had a yellow one, too, that was delicious!) and the long sweet pointed peppers! You just have to grow them knowing that it might have been the fruit of a hybrid plant so it might not be the exact same fruit from the seed, but it worked just fine for me, better than seeds I've bought!
I will combine this technique with using soil instead of paper towels because in the past, I found that when seeds germinate through paper towels, their roots tend to stick or go through paper towels which make it very hard to get them out without tearing up some of the roots even when I am being very careful...especially small seeds like these. If big seeds like mango, etc...then the root is big enough to handle without breaking. Thanks.
Someone told me once that if you want grass to grow fast and hardy blend the seeds with beer. I did and wow! I assume it would work with water and yeast and any seed.
No.
I'm going to try this with some wild Canadian blueberries!
where should I plant my blueberry plant. Shade, sun... east west etc. LOVE THIS
Need update on your blueberries you started
The Blueberrybounce is a well known gold panning technique developed by John "Blueberry" Andrews from Nome Alaska. In a roundabout way it's the same thing you are doing to retrieve those blueberry seeds.
This is so great to know! We bought a place with aged blueberry bushes. Now I can increase our berries and replace a couple older ones that have died. (Place was abandoned for years)
This is NOT a suggested method to "increase" your blueberries. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
I was excited for a second then remembered we have tons of blueberry bushes in our woods.
Omg wish I saw this a few years ago! Threw out so many and just last week bought my first seedling. Can’t wait until I have blueberries and follow your tutorial on growing my own from seed! ❤️
This is exactly why you should not listen to this person. Buying a blueberry shrub from a nursery that has legitimate named cultivars that are bred for size, flavor, and production. You'll have fruit within one year. It's really best not to listen to this youtuber. While he's "inspiring" he is not educating anyone on cultivar selection, what it means, and how to do it. It's a big waste of time, space. and money when you can have fruit within months or within a year from knowing what to look for and how to find them which is far more specific than anything he has said.
@@violetviolet888
Where is more information available?
I just bought some blueberries grown at a farm 5 miles down the road... I'm going to give this a shot..
I just bought blueberry bushes the other day. I was hoping to find a video, and here we are.
Thank you for mentioning the out-of-country radiation bit; I'll keep this in mind for other fruits too :)
It's due to Codex Alimentarius. Like he said, the radiated fruit is now dead.
Wow! how do you know that!!?? Codex?
look it up 👍
www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/about-codex/en/#c453333
Who wants to eat radiated fruit anyway? That's not even the way it's supposed to be...
I will certainly be trying this placed my blueberries in the freezer as I type❤ thank you for sharing
This was a great video, this really helped me out a lot and my blueberries are sprouting!! Thank you!
Wait what... when did you start?
Really enjoy your videos. Hope you continue to teach. Enjoy growing plants & really get excited learning how to use kitchen scraps to start new plants. Can you grow leeks from leftover roots of grocery purchased leeks? Keep up the great sharing!
Yes I am definitely going to try this. We live in Northern Missouri on acreage where we raise cow/calf. Bought place from homesteading family who had never done anything with land. So when we qualified for an EQIP program and had soil tested our meadows ranged from 4.4-4.8 for 17 sites and 5.0-5.3 on 3 covering a bit over 200 acres. I’ve been to Springfield Missouri in 2019 for a Blueberry Conference now just deciding whether or not to section off a part for a side business. Had 2 plants I bought and killed after 2 years because they were Southern variety. Didn’t know. So glad Extension System is available for us. Your channel has information I’m constantly looking to. Keep up the good work.
Don't bother with this method. The seeds themselves will result in plant variations and NOT grow true to the cultivar you tasted, most with undesirable fruit. You can't just grow any blueberry anywhere. They need chill hours. Different cultivars have different microclimate needs. There are many lesser quality blueberries out there and I guarantee you that if you try this method, you will end up with plenty of sub par blueberries. The only way to get the exact delicious blueberry you ate is to get cuttings to propagate from the plant that grew it, this is a cloning method of propagation that guarantees you get the same thing. Example: Every granny smith apple ever grown came from ONE original branch (apple trees and all cultivars of fruit trees are grafted). Just buy a blueberry shrub. You'll have fruit within months.
Hi, I found your vieo really interesting. i am definetly going to try it. I have my old blueberries already in the freezer. Can you make a follow up of some seeds?? I would love to see them growing.
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Thank you for valuable information.
How I started blueberries is just spit the seeds and skin on my backyard. Thy grow fast and fruiting within a year. No sweat!
Definitely will try this. I have some old blueberries in the refrigerator and will put them in the freezer today.
As a fellow Michigander I prefer to get my gardening advice from another sap sucker from south of the bridge. However, I live in Texas now. I think you should do a web series where you come build a MI gardner garden for an MI fellow in Texas ;)
Hey, hello! Same here! A Michigan girl in a Texas world!❤
I love the comments...
“Grow FREE blueberries!”
Yay! Sign me up!
“It will take work and a lot of time.”
Oh, well no thanks then.
Roflmao
Thank you
Marie Chalykoff that's the way growing your own food is--labor intensive!
Doesn't surprise me in the least. 😂 We actually *do* have about 6-8 blueberry bushes in our back yard. And every year by the last week of June throughout the first 2 weeks of August or so they produce literally a hella lot more blueberries than we can ever possibly eat
(even after freezing at least a gallon or so to last the winter for waffles/pancakes/muffins etc..).
Aaand every Summer-
instead of just letting so many of them go to waste or just letting the birds & insects & critters eat most of them......
we try to just give away as many of them as possible.
We tell most ppl after they get allllll kinds of excited after hearing that we have fresh homegrown ORGANIC af blueberries that they are more than welcome to take as many as they want...as long as they come pick them, sort them and wash them themselves (we only do all that for our OWN berries that we keep).
The second that they hear that we will *NOT* be picking/sorting/cleaning any blueberries for *them* first before they get them
(like we do our own).........
funny how all of a sudden , just like flicking a switch.....
they suddenly *DO NOT* want any fresh organic blueberries nearly as much as they literally just *said* they did, once they learn that they'll have to actually put forth a bit of (gasp!!)
*WORK & EFFORT* in order to GET them. 😂😂😂
The birds & bunnies & June bugs etc...certainly *do* appreciate their laziness, though.
@@r.sanders8448 I would love to come, but I believe the plane ticket would be too much😜
Thank you Berry much!! Fab video!! Raised in New England where blueberries grow wild. As you say , seeing them dry up ⬆️ in fridge hurts. My prior attempts of growing from my leftover inedible failed . You give me hope and sharing! + subscribing
would be nice if you would do a follow up and attach it with your results.
I Think this would be fun just for a simple little experiment especially if you have kids
What are you kidding! 4 years! I'll be dead by then!
Hi, thank you for doing this video. You have helped me so much. I went to my local u pick plantation and I am seed saving! I am dealing with 12 1/4 lbs of Elliott Blueberries currently from that plantation.
Interesting - Its always a good day when youi learn something new - Its been a good day!
When he said," They will fruit in about 4 years."I almost died.
EastPAWZ I kno right 😂
n if we have to buy more plants as he says at the end, y bother.
Same. I was all like "4 YEARS???!!!!!" *dies* holy $h!t. Way to not have enough blueberries to make blueberry pie and other stuff next year for Christmas. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
As a future farmer and much more, I say that that is true but bull$h!t
EastPAWZ brazilian jabuticabas fruit take 15 years to fruit.
same. I almost fell out of chair.
Im going to do that with wild blueberries that grow around here..im from Cape Breton Island N.S..eastern.tks for the tips..i do have tall bush growing in my back yard..