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["Robert C. Mullins" <mullins@gaelicmysts.com>]

I have a two-year old O'Neal I planted just this year and decided to 
buck conventional wisdom, and did not pinch off any of the blooms.  They 
are putting on many blueberries and the plant is roughly 12-24" tall.  I 
have two 'Premier' and two BlueJay varieties, and they have yet to put 
on fruit or flowers, of course they are later bearing than the O'Neal.   
The  O'Neal isn't necessarily putting on TONS of fruit, but there are 
probably a dozen to 2 dozen fruit on a single plant.

I hope this helps, not sure how the rest of the year will go. But there 
you have it.


Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> In my experience in NC, blueberries are slow to establish.  Once they do
> after 3 years (or so) at the site, they grow rapidly.
>
> I have always pinched off flowers for the first 2 years on all my so.
> highbush and rabbiteye plants.  This is the 'conventional wisdom' that
> was imparted to me as an essential element of successful blueberry
> culture, so I have always done it. Therefore, I do not have a good
> control group to compare their growth with plants that have produced
> fruit from an early age.
>
> Betsy Hilborn
> 7a NC
>
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Robert C. Mullins M.S. IT
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Clarksville, Ar
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