How to prune your blueberry bush 

Great idea! I will see if I can get some filmed if the crew is still pruning some of our fields.

Wonderful! Feel free to always email us at hello@hoffmanfarmsstore.com for extra help.

We are always happy to help. Jayson, who is pruning in the video you watched had a few tips for you. Fruiting issues starts with pruning and how the bush is managed throughout the winter. Blueberries set the fruit buds in the late summer and fall of the previous year. Putting on fertilizer too late into the summer can make the plant not set fruit for the following year as the plant wants to grow instead of set the buds. Be careful to not over fertilize and to not over prune and remove the fruiting buds in the winter. There is resources at WSU and OSU for fertilizer rates by variety. They give out recommendations that is in line with what commercial growers even use. If you have more questions or would like more detailed help please email us at hello@hoffmanfarmsstore.com and we would be happy to help more.

We appreciate your comic relief :) I can't believe I missed that error.

Great suggestion! We will post a video about this soon with tips on how to prune a legacy plant.

Sorry for the delay! Here is the video for you with some tips. We also are happy to email back and forth if you have more questions. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KFf9b-Oy1YQ.html

@@HoffmanFarmsandStore This video is great! thanks so much!

Wonderful! Reach out if you need any other help.

We make our own compact on the farm that we put on all our blueberries. It’s a mix of yard debris and leaves.

Our southern high bush varieties do not drop their leaves, but if it gets cold enough they will drop some of their leaves. If you want to talk more about the varieties you have and questions email us at hello@hoffmanfarmsstore.com

For us it is our Duke variety.

Thank you for the suggestion, we can totally talk about how we prepare the soil to plant berries and the mulch we use when we plant.

What soil do you use and do you use it every year?

@@rockyal5306 we use a homemade compact that we make on the farm. It’s a mix of yard debris and leaves. Yes, we use it every year on the blueberries.

We had a little trouble with our camera during this video. We are doing another video of pruning our legacy plants and will post that soon. Thank you for your understanding.

Yes, that is what we recommend on established blueberries. We like to see a healthy amount of new shoots and few old hard wood shoots on a plant. That gives the best possibility for yield output. Thank you for watching.

Birds are sadly a huge problem, we loose fruit each year to them but try to use less invasive tactics. For example we use predator noise speakers to deter the birds in our fields. They help, but it’s still something we fight each season.