Blueberry Issues - Any Bluberry farmwers out there that can advise me?

[callumBlueberries]

Good afternoon,

I am originally from the UK but now live in Portugal. I have recently taken over management of a bluberry farm here in the Algarve. I am hping to find another blueberry farmer on here that can advise me with some issues I currently have.

We have around 3000 bushes at approx 7 years old, this years yield was fantastic however if you look at the attached photographs around two thirds of the bushes are showing these symptoms.

Can anyone please advise me, many thanks in advance.

 

[Yale]

@Oldmacdonald

 

[Kidds]

Short of something.
Test pH of soil and tissue sample of leaves to see what nutrients are there or not there.

 

[callumBlueberries]

Short of something.
Test pH of soil and tissue sample of leaves to see what nutrients are there or not there.

Thanks for getting back to me, I put down peat and pine needles a month ago. We are starting mulching in november and going to use Manure with pine needles.

Someone mentioned blight in another forum...

 

[milkloss]

Might not be relevant but my privet hedge used to go purple/yellow this time of year but has improved markedly since I've been putting FYM along the base.

 

[Sharpy]

Thanks for getting back to me, I put down peat and pine needles a month ago. We are starting mulching in november and going to use Manure with pine needles.

Someone mentioned blight in another forum...

The pine needles will lower the ph which blueberrys should like, you need to know what your soils ph is to start with though.

 

[callumBlueberries]

The pine needles will lower the ph which blueberrys should like, you need to know what your soils ph is to start with though.

Thanks, I am going to track down a testing kit tomorrow.

 

[Fruitbat]

I can’t see much from the photos but cross reference with images of pseudomonas.

 

[stewart]

I can’t see much from the photos but cross reference with images of pseudomonas.

Psuedomonas usually results in a black centre with a white "halo" around it, or at least it did when we got it in our fruit.
It could be lacking something or possibly just shutting down for winter.

 

[Fruitbat]

I lost 600 plus pots over one winter with pseudomonas. Feeling smug with great Vine Weevil control only to lose them in the Spring.
Unimpressed.

 

[Bogweevil]

Good afternoon,

I am originally from the UK but now live in Portugal. I have recently taken over management of a bluberry farm here in the Algarve. I am hping to find another blueberry farmer on here that can advise me with some issues I currently have.

We have around 3000 bushes at approx 7 years old, this years yield was fantastic however if you look at the attached photographs around two thirds of the bushes are showing these symptoms.

Can anyone please advise me, many thanks in advance.

Surely this is Autumn colour, blueberries are deciduous and show tints before leaf fall - we call this autumn and it is not generally a cause for concern.