Blueberry plant yields 4 pints per day, every day?? wtf?

[Matthiasa]

You gotta put a net over your BB plants to keep the animals away

Unrelated I am going batsh*t balls out this year with my cucumber plants and cherry tomatoes. Last year was the first year I tried and it worked well. I'm going to plant tons this time. I want to eat five cucumbers each day all summer.

5 a day...

Seriously though I would think that would take a lot of plants.
Cherry tomatoes are easy though even if you ignore them they will survive.

 

[shortylickens]

Bulk blueberries?

 

[StageLeft]

5 a day...

Seriously though I would think that would take a lot of plants.
Cherry tomatoes are easy though even if you ignore them they will survive.

Yeah not really 5/day but enough it will upset the mineral balance in my body, I hope.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Are cherries easy to grow?

Well, apart from being a huge tree.

Forget it, I think I've answered my own question :\

 

[xanis]

I assume you're familiar with the saying: "If it's too good to be true, it probably is."

Methinks this is one of those times.

 

[zinfamous]

hahahahahhahahaha.

you have to be shitting me.

 

[moshquerade]

The bigger the blueberries, the weaker their flavour. I think.

The bigger blueberries are less tart though.
I so love blueberries. I eat them by the handfuls when I can get good ones.

 

[Miramonti]

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Yield - With good care, mature highbush and rabbiteye plants should produce more than 10 lbs each year. Rabbiteye varieties can, on occasion, produce up to 25 lbs per plant.

 

[lxskllr]

I have a couple bushes. They don't get 4 pints per day, but I'm not sure what they do tbh. I pick them on an as needed basis, and let the critters have the rest.

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For the question farther up... Cherries are a PITA to grow. You have to use a lot of chemicals to ensure a good crop, and that's not something I'm willing to do. I get a few every year, but the animals get most of them.

 

[Miramonti]

I have a couple bushes. They don't get 4 pints per day, but I'm not sure what they do tbh. I pick them on an as needed basis, and let the critters have the rest.

Edit:
For the question farther up... Cherries are a PITA to grow. You have to use a lot of chemicals to ensure a good crop, and that's not something I'm willing to do. I get a few every year, but the animals get most of them.

Hmmm...we planted a bing cherry and black tartarian cherry tree (for pollinating) last spring. To be honest, I heard they can grow here (NM) but other than fruit tree spikes, I don't know what else I should be doing for them. Maybe I need to read up on it some more.

Hopefully we'll atleast get flowers this year.

 

[lxskllr]

Hmmm...we planted a bing cherry and black tartarian cherry tree (for pollinating) last spring. To be honest, I heard they can grow here (NM) but other than fruit tree spikes, I don't know what else I should be doing for them. Maybe I need to read up on it some more.

Hopefully we'll atleast get flowers this year.

They grow and bloom easily, but the fruit's very susceptible to fungus and rot. They take a fair amount of attention to get quality fruit. If you just let it do it's thing, you'll get some fruit, but it won't be at it's full potential, and it'll be a small(usable) crop.

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[ponyo]

Hmmm...we planted a bing cherry and black tartarian cherry tree (for pollinating) last spring. To be honest, I heard they can grow here (NM) but other than fruit tree spikes, I don't know what else I should be doing for them. Maybe I need to read up on it some more.

Hopefully we'll atleast get flowers this year.

I'm thinking about planting a cherry tree. I planted apple, plum, and peach trees along with 3 bushes of blueberries about 2 weeks ago. I paid $10/ bush for the blueberries at Home Depot. I've read blueberries like acidic soil so I'm just going to dump some used coffee grinds from my espresso machine every so often.

 

[CKent]

Hrm, the blueberry plants I'm thinking of should yield a few oz. every 3 months...

 

[Tiamat]

I say shens. I've been blueberry picking at Shaw's Orchards down in southern Penn. by Maryland border and there individual plants don't produce that much per plant. I just don't see a do-it-yourself kit outproducing a farm's plant especially when the farm depends on the profits to survive.

 

[Eli]

I'm thinking about planting a cherry tree. I planted apple, plum, and peach trees along with 3 bushes of blueberries about 2 weeks ago. I paid $10/ bush for the blueberries at Home Depot. I've read blueberries like acidic soil so I'm just going to dump some used coffee grinds from my espresso machine every so often.

That will help, but really the soil should have been prepared properly from the beginning.

Something else that will help is evergreen or Rhododendron & Azalea fertilizer. Fertilizer in general is acidic, but these are especially so. Be careful with any fertilizer though.

 

[DrPizza]

You can very easily pick 4 pints of ripe blueberries off one mature bush. (I've seen 20 year old bushes that are 8 feet tall & 4 or 5 feet across.) But, you'll be lucky to get that high of a yield more than 2 days of the year. And that's only if you don't pick any at all for a few days. They stay ripe on the bush for quite a while before going bad.

I've got acidic soil - thinking about putting in 20 to 40 blueberry bushes this year. I'm too impatient to purchase bare root stock. Also doing the cherry trees, plus pear, peach, replace a couple of my apple tries, and a plum tree.

 

[Miramonti]

They grow and bloom easily, but the fruit's very susceptible to fungus and rot. They take a fair amount of attention to get quality fruit. If you just let it do it's thing, you'll get some fruit, but it won't be at it's full potential, and it'll be a small(usable) crop.

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Thanks for the headsup. I'm worried about birds picking at them too.

I'm thinking about planting a cherry tree. I planted apple, plum, and peach trees along with 3 bushes of blueberries about 2 weeks ago. I paid $10/ bush for the blueberries at Home Depot. I've read blueberries like acidic soil so I'm just going to dump some used coffee grinds from my espresso machine every so often.

We were going to go with 1 cherry and 1 apple, but since we're in a new under-developed area, we could need a 2nd cherry from the same class for cross-polinating, since they aren't self-fertilizing. Same would have been the case if we went with an apple tree, but I need my bings. So 2 cherries, 1 self-fertilizing dwarf peach, and 1 pomegranate.

 

[Eli]

The problem with fruit trees in New Mexico, especially early flowering ones.. is that often we'll get a week or two of warm weather, the trees will go into bloom then bam, a hard freeze.

No flowers=no fruit for the year.

As long as you're down lower, it may not be as much of a problem.. But yeah.

 

[Miramonti]

The problem with fruit trees in New Mexico, especially early flowering ones.. is that often we'll get a week or two of warm weather, the trees will go into bloom then bam, a hard freeze.

No flowers=no fruit for the year.

As long as you're down lower, it may not be as much of a problem.. But yeah.

That's been a worry this year. Trees seemed to start budding so early.

 

[Chaotic42]

The bigger blueberries are less tart though.
I so love blueberries. I eat them by the handfuls when I can get good ones.

Yep. They are super expensive down here in MS. Every other major fruit is dirt cheap except for the berries.

 

[0roo0roo]

"Now the waiting begins. A new bush will produce fruit in the third year! After that, your bush will thrive for many years to come with just a little care and maintenance. "http://www.gardenersnet.com/fruit/blueberry.htm

i don't have that kind of patience, buying a bush is a pain. fighting against pests/birds..meh

 

[StrangerGuy]

4 pints/day? Is that plant grown in a time machine?

 

[Locut0s]

WTF 4 pints per day? Sense that does not make. The plant has to be making those blueberries FROM something. No plant is that efficient, and if it were you would have to be replace 4 or more pints of soil a day being converted into blueberries.

 

[rockyct]

WTF 4 pints per day? Sense that does not make. The plant has to be making those blueberries FROM something. No plant is that efficient, and if it were you would have to be replace 4 or more pints of soil a day being converted into blueberries.

Well, I'm sure most of the blueberry is water, so I could see the plant absorbing over 4 pints of water in one day.

 

[Locut0s]

Well, I'm sure most of the blueberry is water, so I could see the plant absorbing over 4 pints of water in one day.

Yeah that's a fail on my part lol However it still seems unlikely. At 4 pints a day you could just about sit there and watch them grow in real time.