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Illinois Everbearing South Louisiana ? (says zone8)

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Posted by greenman62 9b (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 1, 14 at 7:27

i was thinking of buying a Illinois Everbearing.
i have a Ruba/red
but they season is very short, lust like 2 weeks.

Anyway
when i read some websites
including the nursery i wanted to buy from
they say either Zone 4 to 8b
or zone 3 to 9a

i am in zone 9b
is it too hot here ? (New Orleans)
will it not grow ? Not fruit ?
does it need "chill hours" ??

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RE: Illinois Everbearing South Louisiana ? (says zone8)

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Like you, I wanted a longer season to make mulberry muffins and was impressed by all the happy customers growing IL Everbearing up north. The plant that I got from a well-known Houston area nursery was represented as an "IL Everbearing" and has grown well and faithfully made berries. But they are les than 1/2" long MAX. Perfect for bird beaks, but not for a big, hungry human tummy. Nurseries never mislabel plants, right? So, I got scions from a nursery up north from 3 recommended varieties to replace the tops on the supposed IL Everbearing. The grafts all took. The 3 kinds of fruit were very unimpressive and had very little flavor at all. So next March I will clip off those and regraft every branch with a proven, tasty, big-enough variety that works well producing fruit all April each year. Shangri La. Pick them early if you want more tart ness, and pick them a little later if you want less tartness and more sweetness. Pick them too late and they are insipidly sweet/flat tasting. Drop unwanted berries in a big pot of continually moist potting soil and you may have lots of Shangri La seedlings sprouting up that can later be potted separately to give away or plant elsewhere. The leaf patterns will vary a lot. The seedlings grow very fast in full Sun and in good, moist soil mix. Go Saints.

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