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Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 14:10
| Well, I put in my plant order and for blueberries went for Elizabeth and Ka-bluey. Has anyone tried these? Hope I didn't fall for advertising story..... Is it possible to take cuttings from these blueberries and make new plants from them? |
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- Posted by blueboy1977 TX9A/B (My Page) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 16:05
| If the plants are patented your not suppost to propigate the plants untill the patent expires. I belive its 10 years on patents but I may be wrong. If you do propigate them I wouldnt tell anyone about it! |
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| I haven't tried Ka-bluey,but Elizabeth is very good. Brady |
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- Posted by northwoodswis4 4a (My Page) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 17:19
| I have several KaBlueys. They don't get many, if any, berries on them. I suspect they are not fully hardy in zone 4a. I have about 70 bushes of various varieties, and the rest bear fine after a couple years. Northwoodswis |
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- Posted by fruitmaven.WIz5 5 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 10:56
| Northwoodswis, do you have a favorite variety of blueberry? |
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| I've given up on both Ka-Bluey and Elizabeth. I've tried to establish them over the last six years and have had no success; they die out in the heat of summer here. The berries I got from them were sparse and nothing exceptional anyway. I must say though that Gurney's is great about honoring their lifetime guarantee and have no fault w/the company, only the variety. |
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- Posted by northwoodswis4 4a (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 13:44
| As far as flavor goes, I like St. Cloud the best. For reliability Northland is very good. Chandler gets huge berries over a long season, but only if we have a mild winter, so maybe not fully hardy here. Overall, there isn't a real difference in flavor in most of the varieties I have tried. Northwoodswis |
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| If the plants are patented your not suppost to propigate the plants untill the patent expires. I belive its 10 years on patents but I may be wrong. If you do propigate them I wouldnt tell anyone about it! Slight correction there. He can propagate it all he wants, the patent does not cover natural functions of the plant, which includes reproduction. He just can't go selling the offspring. |
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| Edymnion, I'm not so sure about that.I was just reading some past threads and some have different views on plant patents. Here is one in the link.There are a lot of opinions in the thread and some links to patent law.About halfway into the thread,a doctor of Agronomy chimes in and wrote that even some plant seeds are under patent. It's an interesting thread just to read. Brady |
Here is a link that might be useful: Patented Plants
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- Posted by blueboy1977 TX9A/B (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 7:19
| A patented plant is not suppost to be propagated. The reason for the patent is to protect the grower who put in all the work and breeding to produce it. You can how ever use the seeds to reproduce a patented plant as it will not be exactly like the parent plant. Tissue cultured plants are cheap if bought small, like $6 or so. Plus they produce a superior plant after the first year compared to rooted cuttings. What's the point for a patent if someone could buy one plant and turn it into 100s of plants? Not saying you can't propagate them, just don't make it public knowledge and dang sure don't sell them! The inventor deserves his cut of the money. I've done my home work on this topic and every thing that has to do with blueberries. I had the same idea! Florida Hill Nursry doesnt have the best reputation but they offer Northern and Southern High Bush tissue culture plugs for cheap. Plus it's a legal plant that's certified disease free. That's a pretty sweet deal! You could always contact the University of Florida and ask them about patent regulations on blueberries as they hold many of them. They won't steer you wrong. I was wrong in my first post, patents are 20 years. |
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- Posted by GreenOrchardMom Ga Mts 7 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 13:09
| Propagating before the patent is released is bad karma indeed anyway... I sampled a grower friend's Kabluey & much to my dismay was not at all impressed taste is subjective but I detected none of the special complex stuff I was so ready to buy it before that! Gurneys has an awesome way of making all they sell sound soooo good which has not been my experience Maybe they have different soil rain & sunshine. |
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