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Blueberry flowering but not fruiting

Last post 22-05-2012 11:12 PM by Anonymous. 1 replies.

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  • 22/05/2012 10:18 AM
    • Gill A
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    • 22 May 2012
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    Please can anyone help me?  I have a blueberry plant, which is about 3 years old, it is in a pot in ericaceous compost and is only watered with rain water.  It was outside with some other blueberry plants in pots (I lost the others over 2 winters due to frost and snow, which we don't normally get!).  Last year it flowered and the flowers slowly fell off leaving the bud to fruit, then the buds all fell off so we got no fruit.  This year I have bought a greenhouse so I have put the blueberry plant in there hoping to protect it from whatever ate the fruit before it grew last year.  I have also bought another new blueberry plant to go with it.  This year the same has happened again, it had loads of flowers all over it and one by one the ends of the stems where the flowers were have gone brown and the fruits before they started to expand have disappeared.  The plant now also has some sort of mould on it and the stems seem to have developed lumpy nodules.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong?  My 5 year old son is very disappointed that his precious blueberries keep disappearing!  The blueberry plants that died due to the snow gave me fruit so I know we can grow them around here!
  • 22/05/2012 11:12 PM
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    Gill A.

    How sad.  Despit all your efforts and you have hit the proverbial brick wall.  For your youngster.  Mum, can't you do anythig right ?

     

    Gill.  Mike is no expert regardin fruit growing.  However.  I was married for nigh on fifty years.  Birds and the bees.  Your concern and action of placing your subject in the greenhouse,  TLC etc.  First class.  Greenhouses, wonderful inventions.  WE all do our utmost to keep bugs and creepy crawlies out of the greenhouse.  Plants need to treated in the right way.  Flowers, are the invitation of the lovely lass, for some male attention.  In the plant kingdom, this is usually provided by, wind, insect or manual application.

    Gill.  You have, despite your TLC of your subject.  You have denied it the natural way of fertilising the seed.  So.  Taking it that you have more than one specimen.  During the flower time.  Pop your plants outside.  Let nature take it's course.  If you are in doubt.  Then you will have to act.  When the flowers are in their peak.  You will have to pollinate each bloom by hand.

     

    Email me if you need more info.

     

    Mike.