Great Tips on Fertilizing Blueberries For Improving Yields

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Step by step instructions and explanations on blueberry fertilization
Your Host: Gary L. Heilig, Horticulture Educator (retired), Michigan State University Extension
Topics include: Why fertilize, blueberry special requirements, how to make the perfect blueberry fertilizer (regular or organic), application rates for individual plant and per acre, Application times, and monitoring progress.

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I started a compost pile a couple of years ago. All our vegetative leftovers go in, along with chicken manure from my coop cleanings. I also bought a couple of tubs of earthworms from a local bait shop and dumped them into the pile. I mix it 50/50 with the native top soil when planting our garden or fruit trees.

[@aalovelace2776]

The best info on growing blueberries out there! Thank you!

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[@josephmoodler2711]

One of the best blueberry fertilizer videos that I have watched. Thank you !

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[@andrewp.619]

Thanks for providing the information for both organic and conventional growing techniques. As always, a wealth of information.

[@sniper.308]

Thanks very helpful for blueberries. I’m growing cranberries between the blueberries here in Michigan. They grow good have not flowered yet. Cranberry were planted last year.

[@tbluemel]

Awesome presentation! Very, very well explained!!! Thank you!

[@123gyra123]

Omg, first time gardener and would love to grow blueberries but they seem so high maintenance.

[@johannaarias70]

Hello Mr. Gary. Thank you for sharing all this amazing information! How wonderful to learn from good resources that actually know the chemistry composition. Very helpful! Is there any tips of how quickly modify the soil? My pH is 6-6.5 for blueberries. It’s late May which won’t allow me to plant them in the ground, but I will need to repot them with home made soil (which I don’t have/know about it yet) but I will need to 1) create my new own acid soil and 2) modify my soil before transplanting again to the ground in Oct-Nov. This is for well stablished 5 year old plants I just purchased 1 week ago. :) any help or advise?

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This is the best video I’ve seen for blueberries bless u!

[@judithstorck5195]

Thank you - much needed information. We are in SW Arizona (zone 9b) with lots of clay soil so lots of incoming organic components need to be added. Holding off on planting our Blueberry bushes (which should come any day now) until Autumn when the organic additives in the soil have had time to be effective enough for the plants. Judi

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[@GaryHeilig]

It is my pleasure. I love to teach.

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[@erw9604]

this is very help. my blue bush have half its leaves yellow but i did get blueberries. just trying to determine what to do to make the leaves green. thanks for all your knowledge!

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[@hozb1]

Thanks very much! A really helpful, informative video.

[@keith102955]

For potassium I dry up banana peels and grind them for calcium I dry my egg shells and grind them are those to a good source to use? Great videos thanks for all your help

[@briandrake6660]

What variety of blueberry do you grow?

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Thank you for the info. I have never heard of Langbenite potassium. I just ordered some.

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[@A.Pineda09]

Greeting Mr. Gary Heilig, i watched your youtube video about fertilizing blueberry. its very very informative. thank you so much for sharing. may i please ask a question? i started planting a blueberry(BILOXI a no chill variety )this year in a 20gallon pot with mostly peatmoss,cocopeat, perlite. top dressed with worm casting, hollytone fertilizer, espoma soil acidifier and since my medium is not acidic enough i added a small amout of elemental sulfur then mulch with a pine bark. i've been fertilizing with 21-0-0. and i think i got other macronutrients covered with hollytone organic fertilizer. my question is what's gonna be my source for micronutrients? a lot of product from your country are not available here in the philippines. im thinking if there is any organic fert i can use for micronutrients. thank you

[@lifeisgood070]

i'm in central Tennessee and pretty sure my soil is 6.9 -7.1 ph. Just planted blueberries. Hopefully they live. Going to be a long process to reduce soil PH. I did not test the exact area of the blueberries. I will next year after all the fertilizer dissolves and disperses. I tested the grass area xD

[@jeffreyatto2523]

Thank you VERY MUCH, professor! This was incredibly helpful. - Fellow Michigander

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[@GaryHeilig]

Keep watching. I hope to do this for many more years. If you have a topic you would like to know about, let me know.

[@zackbridgman]

Thanks for the info. I’m always paranoid I will burn my blueberries with ammonium sulfate. I’m finding the only way I why the blend I want is making the blend as you described. I have 2 acers to fertilize.

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[@jamesreedy1517]

Very helpful.

[@G.G.T.]

Thoughts on coffee grounds as a base to start??? I can get free coffee grounds and gardens love free! anything to add with it to balance it out? also best time of year to fertilize?

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[@clay3129]

Thank you

[@CuriousinNY]

Yes this was helpful. Question: Do you have any advice on fertilizing blueberries being grown in 20 gallon pots? I can’t exactly spread the fertilizer out the recommended distance.

[@GaryHeilig]

Just broadcast it in the pot, but I would suggest 1/2 rate. and water in.

[@CuriousinNY]

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[@bobmckee1531]

Gary, I've been fertilizing with Holly Tone organic fertilizer for acid loving plants. And I lower pH with sulpher. Have I got this right? I'm seeing better results.

[@powersonic6255]

Holly Tone is good , a little water soluble fertilizer also help for the home gardener , spray on leaves as well before fruits an buds come out .

[@bobmckee1531]

I'm on sandy soil. I find my fertilizers to leach out quickly to the surrounding soil. I add sulfur most years to lower the pH. This Spring I added sulphur and got the pH down to 6.0 with better results and more vigorous growth. What is the best time to add sulfur to my 3 blueberry plants?

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Very specific and informative, however, too complicated for this old lady…

[@mohammadadabi2715]

Thanks Gary,but it doesn't damage the blueberry, when we mix sulfur powder as a acidifier during the planting?!

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[@evelyndorman5301]

Can you use alfalfa pellets for nitrogen?

[@dc-wp8oc]

Or alfalfa meal?

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Wondering how the Epsom salts mentioned is different from the Epsom salts sold in pharmacies or other big box stores?

[@GaryHeilig]

same thing

[@hectorcarrasco9013]

Hello.. one question.. everyone talks about adding sulfur for lowering the ph soil. Im planting blueberries and i have ph of 7.0 but no one say how to or how NOT to incorporate the sulfur. Can I mix it with the soil at the moment of planting?? Hopefully someone can help me with this. Thank you.

[@gailkennedy3297]

Centipede grass has taken over my blueberry garden. Will this hurt the growth?

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Its true! Cleveland Brown is a thing!

[@Primrose709]

No Phosphorus Sir?

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