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Pink Lemonade Blueberries
Has anyone tried them? If so, what do they taste like? They're kind of pretty and I was thinking of sneaking in a plant or two based on everyone's input ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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- Green Thumb
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This is a very new variety. Even those of us who bought the first available plants only have a couple of berries on some of the plants, they are still too young. It is my understanding that they taste about the same according to data from the originator. Most people can't tell the difference between most of the varieties of blues to begin with, so this will probably be the case with these as well.
Got one last year. The plant has taken off nicely! It's vigorous for me and evergreen, so pretty in the winter.
Didn't get many berries on it this year as it was growing like crazy, but next year will be the test, I think.
The berries are ripening slower than the other varieties I have, looks like a few more weeks. Will taste them then!
Didn't get many berries on it this year as it was growing like crazy, but next year will be the test, I think.
The berries are ripening slower than the other varieties I have, looks like a few more weeks. Will taste them then!
So weeks ago, we ate the berries from this bush. They turn out to be mostly whitish/yellowy in color with a pink blush.
Their flavor was astoundingly good and complex- but not with as much juice as the other varieties I'm growing. So totally a worthwhile eating berry. Ripeness was easiest to tell by their texture, NOT the color as that varied a lot.
Flavor was EASY to tell apart from all other blue varieties I've had but still clearly a blueberry.
Their flavor was astoundingly good and complex- but not with as much juice as the other varieties I'm growing. So totally a worthwhile eating berry. Ripeness was easiest to tell by their texture, NOT the color as that varied a lot.
Flavor was EASY to tell apart from all other blue varieties I've had but still clearly a blueberry.
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- Green Thumb
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Mine are in full sun... BUT... that sun doesn't start until almost noon... then they get sun until sunset. They got peat moss when I prepped the bed for planting, and some acid fertilizer mix... (I checked the Ph with own kit prior and am more maintaining it now at about 5.8 or so... it could be down to 5.5 by now, but I didn't want to to rush it...
They also get some solid heat from a wall they are near- to their east.
Mulched with cocoa bean shells. Watered by weeping hose (the flexible kind that is not drip, but more weeps). https://www.homedepot.com/buy/outdoors-garden-center-watering-hoses/gilmour-5-8-in-x-25-ft-flat-soaker-hose-134686.html
Ph may have changed a bit since planting, but haven't checked lately. The plants are now putting on good foliage growth.
They also get some solid heat from a wall they are near- to their east.
Mulched with cocoa bean shells. Watered by weeping hose (the flexible kind that is not drip, but more weeps). https://www.homedepot.com/buy/outdoors-garden-center-watering-hoses/gilmour-5-8-in-x-25-ft-flat-soaker-hose-134686.html
Ph may have changed a bit since planting, but haven't checked lately. The plants are now putting on good foliage growth.
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Mine get sun all day until about an hour before sundown. They are in an area with other blues that used to be pine trees, so the soil was fine to begin with after the trees had to be removed for safety reasons.
I didn't fertilze them the first year at all, my soil is liked of silty, but has clay down quite a ways. They are well mulched and I water them twice a week only. We are both maritime NW and not that far apart really, so I am thinking either something in the soil or genetic variation.
I didn't fertilze them the first year at all, my soil is liked of silty, but has clay down quite a ways. They are well mulched and I water them twice a week only. We are both maritime NW and not that far apart really, so I am thinking either something in the soil or genetic variation.