is it possible to grow a blueberry bush from a blueberry or a seed within a blueberry?

Question

if so how

Answer 1

Lowbush blueberries can be propagated quite easily from seed. The plants can then be set out in prepared rows, vacant areas in fields or as an ornamental ground cover plant for home landscaping. The best time to start seed is in January or February.



Directions

1.

Obtain seed from blueberries that have been frozen at least 90 days. This will break the seeds' nest period. A small amount of seed will start quite a few seedlings.

Extract the seed by one of the following methods:

A.Waring Blender (Kitchen Blender)
Place 3/4 cup of thawed berries in blender. Fill 3/4 full with water. Put on cap and run blender at high speed for 10-15 seconds. Allow to stand 5 minutes. Seed will sink to the bottom while pulp will stay suspended in the water. Very slowly pour off some of this pulp and add fresh water. Allow seed to settle again. Slowly pour off more pulpy water. Add more fresh water. Allow seed to settle. Keep repeating this cycle until all the pulp is removed and only blueberry seed remains in the bottom. Remove seed and spread on a paper towel to dry.
B. Food Grinder
Grind 3/4 cup of thawed blueberries and place in quart jar. Wash inside of grinder into jar also. Fill to 3/4 full with water and cap. Shake vigorously for a few minutes. Allow to stand five minutes as above, and follow same procedure in pouring off the pulp.
C.Mashing Berries In a Bowl
Place 3/4 cup of thawed berries in a mixing bowl. Mash thoroughly with a pedestal. Place in a quart jar and follow same procedure as above.

2.Sow seed in a flat, 3" box filled with finely ground moist sphagnum moss. Just sprinkle seed evenly over the moss then cover with a very thin moss covering. It is important not to make this covering thick. Keep moss moist but not soaked and place flat in a warm room (60 to 70 degrees F) and cover with a newspaper.
3.Seed should germinate in about 1 month. Remove the newspaper. The emerging seedlings are very tiny. Once they begin emerging, place flat in a sunny window or greenhouse. Keep seedlings moist and allow them to grow in the moss until 2 to 3 inches tall.
4Carefully remove seedlings (especially around the root system). Pot each seedling in 2 inches to 3 inches of peat or plastic pots using a mixture of 1/3 peat, 1/3 sand and 1/3 soil. Water well and keep seedlings in a sunny location. After 2 or 3 weeks fertilize the potted seedlings with a liquid fertilizer such as Start-N-Gro etc. at 1/2 the recommended rate.
5.After frost danger is past set out seedlings in desired location. Water well all summer. A 10-10-10 fertilizer at the rate of 1 pound per 100 square feet can be worked into the soil before planting. The first winter, mulch the seedlings with straw, sawdust or pine needles (about Nov. 1). Remove in the spring when buds swell. At this time 10-10-10 fertilizer can again be added at the rate of 1 pound per 100 square feet.
6.Blueberry plants like a lot of water (but not until soil is waterlogged). The plants should bloom and set a few berries when two years old.

Answer 2

There are tiny seeds inside the blueberry that need to be dried out. Then I'd recommend either starting them in peat pots or on a damp paper towel. Once they germinate you'll need to plant them. Seedlings must stay moist. And I assume you're blueberry bush will need to be a few years old before it actually starts to produce fruit. I had one when I was a kid and it didn't start to flower until it was about 3 and then about 2 years later it started to product blueberries. The birds got to eat them before I could

Answer 3

you % 2 blueberry trees for go pollination. Does it get plant existence or in basic terms stay green? If not your soil won't be acidic sufficient the two. upload some peat moss around the bush and once you fertilize use an acidic fertilizer.

Answer 4

yes. That's what seeds are about.

Save seeds, place on wet paper towel, in plastic zip type bag, place in sunny south window, watch for sprouts, transplant. Have fun.

Answer 5

Plant them, fertilize and water like any other seeds.