Blueberry Legacy – 20 Seeds
(Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Legacy’)
R50.00
It is a vigorous and productive grower and a highbush variety of blueberry. They grow to between 5-9 feet in height.
Seed Type: Organic – Harvested from our own plants.
Indoor Sowing: Cold Stratification and then transplant once big enough.
Direct Sowing: Autumn and Early Winter.
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Blueberry Legacy Seeds. Blueberry Legacy (Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Legacy’) is a vigorous and productive grower and a highbush variety of blueberry. They grow to between 5-9 feet in height. They require the most consistent pruning of the blueberry varieties. Highbush blueberry varieties are more disease resistant than other blueberry varieties and as a highbush cultivar Blueberry Legacy is self-fertile.
Blueberry Legacy produces medium to large-sized, medium blue, firm fruit with a very superior flavor and sweetness. This is an attractive landscape plant and a heavy producer of delicious fruit. Fruit size is consistently medium to large and very attractive. The fruit is great eaten fresh with fine flavor, firmness and appearance. It also exhibits a long shelf life for storage.
Growing Blueberry Legacy
Indoor Sowing: Cold Stratification and then transplant seedlings once big enough.
Direct Sowing: Autumn and Early Winter.
- The Blueberry Legacy Seeds need to be cold stratified for 90 days before planting them out.
- Once the 90 days have elapsed, the seeds can be used immediately or kept in the freezer until you are ready to plant them.
- Blueberry seed planting should commence in autumn in warm climates and in the spring in colder climates.
- Plant the seed in dampened sphagnum peat moss in seed trays and cover them with ¼ inch of soil.
- Keep the medium consistently moist.
- Be patient as blueberry seed may take six to eight weeks to germinate, some not for three months.
- Keep the seeds in a warm, sunny area 15-21C.
- The seedlings once sprouted, will look like grass with a few tiny leaves atop.
- During the first year the seedlings may get no taller than 5-6 inches in height.
- Once the blueberry bush seed plants are big enough to transplant, move them into pots in a sunny, warm area and keep moist.
- Blueberry plants like alkaline soil.
- The plants will bear fruit during year two when the plant is 1-2 feet tall.
- For best fruiting, prune the oldest lower branches in late winter.
- With this care, these plants are high yielding and very consistent year after year.
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