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Blueberry question - deciduous or not?

BartlomiejBartlomiej Posts: 24
in Fruit & veg
I have a simple question, it's kind of surprising for me but hey, I have 4 different blueberry bushes in pots, one of them is 'Pink Sapphire'. What bothers me is the fact all dropped leaves around 20th of Oct and started dormancy. Well, except for the pink one, this one is still happily growing and having full green foliage with no sign of dropping leaves.

Is this actually normal for this variety? I live in Belfast / Northern Ireland, and we had only a few nights with temps around freezing. Yet this blueberry is not affected in any way. Strange or not? Thanks.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I don't know, but there are 5 different varieties of blueberry and the ones we buy are often crosses between 2 or more of those 5 varieties.
    There is also an evergreen variety.
    So it's probably in the genes.

    I have 3 in big pots.
    2 lost their leaves in autumn, but one decided to start growing again and produced new shoots, leaves and by november some flowers!
    It's now following the rules and leaves are mostly gone.

    I wouldn't be concerned and it'll probably grow as normal when spring arrives.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    I have x4 in large pots and the recently bought "pink lemonade" which had lovely sweet red berries still has most of this years leaves, but also has new buds on. The other 3 have dropped, but also have new buds. Then again most of the trees had buds on then over a month ago. We also spotted catkins out last month which is the earliest we've ever seen them here....
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • BartlomiejBartlomiej Posts: 24
    This is very interesting... Maybe it's the weird weather playing too, at least to some extent.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Here, summer was quite cool and rarely above 20c during July Aug.
    When Sept arrived temps went up to the high 20s and stayed there for a while, and there was still more than 12hrs daylight/day - that's probably what triggered it here, as a guess.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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