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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] southern highbush blueberries in zone 5?
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:00:06 -0600

We had a friend here in Tennessee who's land was at the foot of 4 mountains.  She bought 3 Hi-Lo thermometers before she figured out they couldn't all be wrong.  Her night time lows tended to run much colder than the surrounding area.  She said her rabbiteyes froze out, she had to get northern blueberries. 
    That said, you might want to look into the two "southern highbush" released by Arkansas a couple years ago.  Unlike the others in that group, theirs require a lot of chill hours.  The one they patented, Ozark Blue, should have the hardiness of the northern blueberries with the vigorous large bush and drought resistance of the rabbiteyes.  Donna



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