Over-view of blueberries

Since spring of 2010 I have started growing blueberries from seed, and have close to 50 seedlings going, in a seed rack. They take about 4 weeks to germinate, and start off very slowly, but after about 4 months, they pick up their pace and after a dormancy period, I'm assuming they will get a lot faster. Even before that I had 4 blueberry plants that I purchased back in 2009 however 1 of them died off probably due to over-watering in 2010, or some type of fungal disease.

Here's a couple of my first blueberry bushes which were purchased in 2009, but they are finally getting flower buds this year. November 2009.

Here's the same plant November 2010

In 2011 it is finally making buds, but I don't have a shot of this one in particular.

Here are the seedlings that I started in late winter or early spring of 2010. March 27th

In another week after taking them outside, they really darkened up. 5 April, 2010

May 22, 2010

June 13, 2010

 August 25, 2010. They were getting too big for the seed rack so I had to move them to the ground

In October of 2010, I purchased 13 new blueberries from Lowes at about $2 a piece since they had a year end sale, so I couldn't resist. Here's all of them with the original 4 in the front which were planted in 2009. These are much bigger and I knew they were flowering size already.

I planted 8 of them in, and kept the rest of the in the tarp with my potted bamboos, while I left 1 out in the cold to see how it does. As it got to -9F, the one that was in the cold with no protection has some branch damage, however the lower parts were still fine and has leafed back out in the last few days. The ones in the tarp looked the best. I ended up moving them up to 5 gallon pots. The 7 that I planted in the ground replaced some of the seedlings that I had in the blueberry bed, but those were simply potted up.
Here's the 7 in the ground.

Now to get back to 2011, it looks like most of the blueberry plants survived. The only ones that didn't make it were the small seedlings that came out of the soil during the freeze, thaw cycle, however even many of those are recovering as I applied juicy roots cloning gel to them, stuck them in pots in order to save those seedlings.

Here's a few of the seedlings coming back to life taken 27 April 2011

Here's one of the bigger one out of the 13 that were purchased on the year end sale last year. They have flower buds, but aren't loaded with them just yet, but these guys should add another foot or so in height, and really bush out this year. I'm expecting the seedlings to get up in the 1-2ft range easily since they accelerate their growth when they get bigger.

Here's a close up of the flower bunches which should open up in about another week or so.

I will likely get a couple lbs of blueberries if I'm lucky this year, but next year there should be many times more depending on how much bigger these guys get.