The BEST potting mix for blueberries + potting blueberries!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Emma and the PlantNet team have come together to show you the BEST blueberry potting mix and our top tips to potting up your blueberries! Don't forget to like and subscribe!
BONUS information:
Your pot must be at least 40cm wide for blueberries
Premium azalea potting mix and pine bark were used in this video
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Thank you for getting right to the topic.
Such an awful, annoying, 'uptalk' - and why the stupid monotonous background music? Excellent content!
What size is the new pot the blueberry going into?
Did you put gravel in the bottom?
The music is distracting. Otherwise a good video. I have planted my blueberries in the ground for three years now and I have not gotten any fruit. Can I just add pine bark on top?
Hi Kristina, you should check your soil pH first, it should be below 6.5 for best results. If the pH is too high you can add sulphur over time to reduce it.
Blueberries also like light soils where their roots can have plenty of air, so if your soil is dense you might like to dig some organic matter through it a few weeks before planting. If you're starting from scratch with a new blueberry plant, pots are seriously the easiest way.
Hope this helps.
- The PlantNet Team
Hi, several important things you need to think about. Furst, do you blueberries bloom or not? They are mature plants or not. Second, you mentioned blueberries, which means you plant several bushes. Some blueberry varieties need cross-pollination, they might not be self ferile. Make sure your blueberries varieties which they can bloom at the same time for cross pollination. Bees are the best pollinators, make sure you have some flowering plants nearby to attract all kinds of bees. Not sure your plants thrive or not, healthy or not. Try to do soil ph test, make sure it us acidic soil. Enrich your soil by adding some amendments. Good luck.
Music is too loud, why do people put music on a video when they are talking? I have a hearing deficiency making it very difficult to hear syllables, thus the information gets lost. yes, I could turn off the sound and read the cc. If I wanted to do that, I would buy a book. I see it as content makers either don't care about hearing deficiencies or don't understand them.
Thanks DonLuc for letting us know, we had no idea! We will be working on our sound quality in future and reducing the music volume. This isn’t our only form of media and we do have all of this information available on our website if you’re interested - thanks again for your feedback 😊
@@plantnetaustralia Thank you. I appreciate your consideration.
Thanks, esp for the azalea soil tip, because sphagnum peat moss is neither renewable nor sustainable, and coco coir is not sustainable. Can rough up the BB soil from the pot, even if you don't cut with a knife, that will not harm the roots. Pumice seems to be the most recommended replacement for perlite, which is not sustainable.
Thanks for bringing that up - very important to garden responsibly 👍
@@plantnetaustralia OK thanks, and thanks again for your video, I put it in my Growing Blueberries playlist
How big is the pot that is being used in the demonstration?
450mm (ish)! 😊
Thanks for the video, you might look into a Dead Cat for the wind noise.
For those beginners who want to grow blueberries in buckets:
01. Bucket 55l (15 gallon)
02. Soil from a pine forest
03. Mix the soil with pieces of sticks and pine bark
04. Pine bark mulch
Purchased soil is dead soil. No doubt.
Purchased fertilizer is not as good as slowly decaying sticks with pine bark. They gradually give the blueberries nutrients. If you really want to take care of the blueberry, it is a good idea to let pieces of pine bark stand in water for several weeks. As soon as the water "rusts", it also has a low ph, then water them. If you have blueberries in black buckets, they will heat up a lot in the sun and the roots will suffer. Either use white buckets or simply paint the black ones white or wrap them in paper or aluminum foil. One last piece of advice: the more varieties of blueberries, the more fruit you will have.
Failure is not possible with this procedure
Thank you, very straight forward and infoemative
Dear god that profile picture 😆
@@DonLuc23 Not at all. Enjoy your blueberries. Cheers
Not afraid to get her hands dirty. 👍
Yep, nothing better for you! Thanks for watching.
I'm in Monterey, CA and I've looked high and low but cannot find any pine bark mulch
Hey there! I'm not sure where to look as we're AUS based, but our big box stores are the best place to find pine bark mulch. It can also be advertised as just pine bark, which is even better :) I hope this helps!
@@plantnetaustralia Thank you!!
I also looked high and low and I found some at Ace Hardware in Fallback Ca. Be careful of the stuff at the big box stores some of has chemicals and or cedar.
@@Moondoggy1941 Do you mean Fallbrook, CA?
@@chairmanmeow3693 Yes I did, sorry about that.
That reconstituted soil just looks too chunky. It doesn't look like the soil surrounding the blueberry bush when you took it out of its original pot. That is a marked discrepancy.
It doesn't look like the plant would be sufficiently nourished in that soil. I mean, don't they need more nutrition than they need that specific acidity level?
In the wild, I saw blueberries growing (in abundance) in the top layers of the naturally occurring top-soil in the area..
Thanks for your message - the aim is to not match the texture of the soil in the original pot, which is unsustainable with the potting mixes we have here in Australia. The aim is to provide a chunky, acidic mix, which will need to be supplemented regularly with fertiliser as any plant down the track. The large chunks create a nice aerated mix - if we use only the potting mix it's far too dense and the blueberries will get easily waterlogged.
We do not have many natural pine forests in Australia and we don't really have any native/naturally occurring blueberries, so unfortunately we can't take examples from the Northern Hemisphere. You can successfully grow blueberries in the ground as you say, but this is about growing blueberries in pots with Aussie potting mixes :)
Thanks again for your comment.
@@plantnetaustralia OK, thank you. I get it now.
Here's wishing you successful crops of berries in abundance..
@@pureenergy5136 picking them right now! All the best 🫐😊
Such a shame about the music!