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Small Fruit Culture

Small Fruit Culture. Soil Test. Most plants – pH 6-6.5 Blueberry – pH 4.5-5.2. Incorporate recommended lime 12” deep. Use Sulfur to lower the pH for blueberries six months before planting. Apply Phosphorus before planting if needed. Northern Highbush – High Mountains

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Small Fruit Culture

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  1. Small Fruit Culture

  2. Soil Test Most plants – pH 6-6.5 Blueberry – pH 4.5-5.2

  3. Incorporate recommended lime 12” deep

  4. Use Sulfur to lower the pH for blueberries six months before planting

  5. Apply Phosphorus before planting if needed

  6. Northern Highbush – High Mountains Piedmont and Coastal Plain from NC northward Southern Highbush – Coastal Plain and Piedmont Rabbiteye – Coastal Plain and Piedmont

  7. Northern Highbush • Blue Crop: Early Season • Jersey: Mid-season • Elliot: Late Season

  8. Brightwell: Early – Mid Season Tifblue: Late Season Powderblue: Late Season Centurion: Very Late Season Rabbiteyes for Piedmont and Lower Mountains

  9. Blueberry Spacing Standard – 6’ x 12’ Hedge – 4’ within row

  10. Three Sexual Types of Muscadines • Male • Female • Perfect flowered

  11. Fresh Fruit Muscadine Varieties • Fry – female, bronze • Summit – self-fertile, bronze • Triumph – perfect flowered, black • Cowart – perfect flowered, black • Loomis – female, black • Nesbit – perfect flowered, black, cold hardy

  12. Processing Muscadine Varieties • Dixie – perfect flowered, bronze, wine, juice, cold hardy • Golden Isles – perfect flowered, bronze, wine, juice, non-”musky” aroma • Carlos – perfect flowered, bronze, wine, juice, cold hardy • Noble – perfect flowered, black, wine, jelly

  13. Muscadine Spacing • Rows – 12’ • Within Row – 20’

  14. Fig Varieties • Figs are not recommended for the mountains • Plant Celeste variety in the Piedmont • Celeste and Alma have closed “eyes”

  15. Plant Figs About 15 Feet Apart

  16. Fig Fruit Drop is Common • Too vigorous • Too dry or hot • Nematode infested

  17. Erect Blackberry Varieties • Choctaw • Cheyenne • Cherokee • Shawnee • Navajo • Arapaho • Kiowa

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