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May Propagation Class: Blueberry Workshop at our Fruit Forest

When
18 May 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
3845 Spring Dr Spring Valley, CA 91977

Registration

Custom acid soil to take home (1 cubic foot) – $10.00
1 cubic foot of custom acid soil mix
Member Ticket for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Biloxi' (Highbush Blueberry) (Member Price) – $20.00
Ticket is for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Biloxi' (Highbush Blueberry). (200 CH, low-chill) This will come with a 5 gallon pot full of custom blueberry mix soil! Availability is first come, first serve. It is always cheaper to join our chapter as a member and then get a plant! No plants will be sold at the event.
Member Ticket for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sharpblue' (Highbush Blueberry) (Member Price) – $20.00
Ticket is for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sharpblue' (Highbush Blueberry). (200 CH, low-chill)

This will come with a 5 gallon pot full of custom blueberry mix soil!

Availability is first come, first serve. It is always cheaper to join our chapter as a member and then get a plant! No plants will be sold at the event.
Member Ticket for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sweetheart' (Highbush Blueberry) (Member Price) – $20.00
Ticket is for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sweetheart' (Highbush Blueberry). (~600 Chill Hours) (Medium chill, but leafs out in Spring Valley) GOOD SPICY BLUEBERRY FLAVOR!

This will come with a 5 gallon pot full of custom blueberry mix soil!

Availability is first come, first serve. It is always cheaper to join our chapter as a member and then get a plant! No plants will be sold at the event.
Non-Member Ticket for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Biloxi' (Highbush Blueberry) (Non-Member Price) (Access Code Needed, Email CRFGSD.org for code) – $33.00
Ticket is for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Biloxi' (Highbush Blueberry). (prefers ZERO chill hours, evergreen! Doesn't like MORE than 150 CH.) This will come with a 5 gallon pot full of custom blueberry mix soil! Availability is first come, first serve. It is always cheaper to join our chapter as a member and then get a plant! No plants will be sold at the event.
Non-Member Ticket for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sharpblue' (Highbush Blueberry) (Non-Member Price) (Access Code Needed, Email CRFGSD.org for code) – $33.00
Ticket is for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sharpblue' (Highbush Blueberry). (200 CH, low-chill) This will come with a 5 gallon pot full of custom blueberry mix soil! Availability is first come, first serve. It is always cheaper to join our chapter as a member and then get a plant! No plants will be sold at the event.
Non-Member Ticket for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sweetheart' (Highbush Blueberry) (Non-Member Price) (Access Code Needed, Email CRFGSD.org for code) – $33.00
Ticket is for Vaccinium corymbosum 'Sweetheart' (Highbush Blueberry). (~600 Chill Hours) (Medium chill, but leafs out in Spring Valley) GOOD SPICY BLUEBERRY FLAVOR! This will come with a 5 gallon pot full of custom blueberry mix soil! Availability is first come, first serve. It is always cheaper to join our chapter as a member and then get a plant! No plants will be sold at the event.

Registration is closed

This month is all about growing blueberries!

This event is free to attend, limited tickets will be offered for those wishing to bring home a blueberry plant with a pot and soil.

Schedule:

9:00 AM Social Hour and Setup

We will have some blueberry cake donuts with lemon glaze to share! Chit-chat, looking at display of THREE DOZEN five-gallon blueberry plants IN FRUIT, 3 huge new rainwater tanks, and new blueberry bed.

9:30 AM

Brief run-down on blueberry culture; why we're making the mix, why blueberries need rainwater. DEMO of pruning mature blueberry. YOU GET INFO SHEET! with blueberry culture/mix/water/pruning tips and list of low-chill varieties.

10:00 AM

YOU GET TO WORK!!!! We will be mixing up SIX CUBIC YARDS of BB mix, which is a lot. The bark and regular potting mix are not the problem. The problem is the peat-moss, which is packed in bales -- DRIED and COMPRESSED! Each clump has to be rolled between the fingers, to separate the fibers. Many hands make light work! The three main ingredients will be laid out in THREE LONG LINES, the length of the corral. Once focused work begins at ONE END of the line, mix will start being ready very quickly. So those who want to pot up their blueberry start and go, won't need to wait until the WHOLE PILE is mixed. It may take 2 hours to finish mixing the whole batch.

We have 12 starts of Vaccinium arboreum which need to get potted up as well. V. arb is much better about tolerating San Diego soil than regular blueberries.

Research and success elsewhere suggest this will be a great blueberry rootstock for San Diego. (Not for sale that day .. . the idea is, we grow them out and GRAFT THEM, and then sell them!)

YOU GET A BLUEBERRY START! (1 Per Person)

The limited Blueberry plants available are small starts, 6"-12"

SMALL! HELPLESS!! THEY ARE WAITING FOR YOUR LOVE!!!

20 x V. 'Sweetheart' (600CH?) (Medium chill, but leafs out in Spring Valley) GOOD SPICY BLUEBERRY FLAVOR!

5 x V. 'Biloxi' (prefers ZERO chill hours, evergreen! Doesn't like MORE than 150 CH.)

5 x V. 'Sharpblue' (200 CH, low-chill)

You will POT UP YOUR OWN BLUEBERRY START!

SO WEAK! SO SMALL!! WILL IT LIVE OR DIE?!?!?!

YOU GET TO PARTICIPATE IN CUTTING-EDGE BLUEBERRY RESEARCH!

Come on out to learn! Also, join our club at CRFGSD.org to get reduced prices on plants at our event!

This month's speaker is Dr. Eric Middleton - UC IPM advisor for San Diego County
He'll be speaking about all those insects attacking your fruit trees. An engaging speaker, and one not to miss!