Pink Lemonade Blueberry Plant

Pink Lemonade is a rabbiteye variety blueberry. It will cross pollinate with other rabbiteye varieties.

Debby, Pros The plants we received were healthy and grew fast. They are doing well now. I think they're 3 years old now. They are about 3 feet tall and bushed out quite a bit. I'll prune them next winter. I never let my blueberries produce the first 2 years. I pick off the blossoms. Everything I've read states that it's important to do this. It's worth the wait. Cons not really any; they are healthy and pretty. Like all blueberries they are particular about soil (must be acid), but disease resistant (a real plus). They require more nitrogen than most fruit bearing plants and they are particular about the kind of nitrogen. Do not use aluminum sulfate; use organic or ammonium sulfate. Ammonium is not really good for the environment.

Soil pH takes time to alter, but can also vary greatly from one patch of soil to the next. There are tons of benefits to having blueberries in the ground instead of pots (unless the variety is specifically bred for pots), so if you want to make the shift towards ground planting I would suggest starting to shift the pH with slow-release minerals ASAP, put more into the planting hole at transplant, and side dress the plants where you want the roots to grow after establishment. Granted, you should test the pH at each step along the way to ensure you’re not going overboard with lowering the pH. In biologically active soils, plants have the means to secret enzymes to attract the microorganisms that will help to transform the soil to their preferred conditions, but it helps to give them a head start using organic rock supplements and biological inoculation via good finished compost.
In terms of amendments, elemental sulfur, diluted vinegar, and coffee grounds are some things that can work wonders to lower soil pH.

It should do fine in your climate m

Thank you for your question. The only time cross-pollination affects the flavor of edibles is if you harvest the seed from this year's crop and plant it next year, but that doesn't apply here. So the simple answer is no, using another variety to pollinate a blueberry bush will not affect the flavor, only the yield, which will be bigger.

Yes, the plant in the gallon pot will produce berries the first year, and then a lot the second year - a year ahead of the plant in the 4" pot.

Did the plant produce any blooms the last 2 years ? if so and it was early, they may have gotten hit by a late frost. This is very common and does not always effect all nearby plants due to variety and tolerance.

None of our trees, plants or seeds are GMO.

The pink ones are ripe. :-) Delicious.

yes, you can transfer them into the ground. As far as I can tell they don’t spread like raspberries (new shoots everywhere) They slowly grow more shoots from the base. If you do keep them in containers, I’ve found that the half whiskey barrel pots work well to start. It gives plenty of space for the roots.