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Blueberry tree leaves have gone brown and dropped off

Ash BennetteAsh Bennette Posts: 22
in Fruit & veg

Hello, we recently bought a nice blueberry tree from a good, well know garden centre. Got it home and put it in a large pot outdoors in eracacious soil which is well drained. It sits in a south facing sunny sheltered spot.

 

We had little flowers on it but they have all dropped off and then a few green leaves started sprouting about a month ago and they too have gone brown and dropped off and the tree just looks lifeless instead of steadily growing. The branches are not brown or look rotten, its just stopped producing green leaves.

 

Any know issues with blueberry trees? We thought they were easy to keep and grow. I am wondering what I have done wrong .. 

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  • Ash BennetteAsh Bennette Posts: 22

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  • WateryWatery Posts: 388

    I'm not at all an expert on blueberries but I think you should try getting your money  back from the garden centre. It sounds as if you had done the right thing.  I don't think you would have got blueberries anyway though, as I believe you need 2 different types to cross-pollinate.    Maybe check out the people at Trehane Nursery/Dorset Blueberry Company.  Their website has lots of info and they will also respond to email/phone questions.  Good luck.  

  • Mark 499Mark 499 Posts: 380

    Is it possible you have overwatered it ?, blueberries don't like it too wet.

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    And they need rainwater rather than tap water if at all possible otherwise the compost will turn alkaline.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LoganLogan Posts: 2,532
    I can't see the pictures on my phone,we grow blueberries.We've bought blueberries from ordinary garden centre's and sometimes they don't grow. It's best to buy from a specialist nursery. This time of year they should be in bloom and have leaves on it,you used the right compost but don't put it on a saucer, water it in dry weather and if you can use rain water.We have water buts just for the blueberries. Sometimes they could get killed by vineweaval.
  • LoganLogan Posts: 2,532
    You will get some fruit but you do need two to cross pollinate
  • frensclanfrensclan Posts: 119

    I have 7 blueberry bushes bought from various sources from Aldi to a local garden centre. Some do very well others less so. The ones I have in pots fare best as I can control the soil conditions better. I must admit that I just put them in pots and let them get on with it only watering if it gets really dry in the summer. So far I have had really good crops and this the 4th year will be the first one when  I will start to feed them as I don't want to repot them. The one I got free from a magazine although it took a year or two to get going is now doing really well and the others all seem to have flowers and leaves starting to show well. I am in the far north west of England so depending on where you are and your local climate conditions would expect the shrubs to be coming into flower and leaf by now.

    Like others above I think you have done the right thing and if it were me I would be taking them back to the supplier and asking for replacements of refunds.

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    My pots of blueberries are constantly standing in water. I think your problem is in your original post where you say they are well-drained. They need to be well-watered at all times.
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