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Blueberries Flowering now (September 9) - Why?

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Posted by lawanddisorder 6 (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 9, 14 at 20:04

I just got back from a 2 week vacation, and before I left, I set up an automated sprinkler system to run every night for 1/2 hour, and when I returned from vacation, I noticed that some of my blueberries are flowering right now.

I only had a minute to peruse the garden, but I know there's at least 3 different bushes flowering. 1 is a Tophat, and the other 2 I will have to cross reference with my notes bc I forget which varieties they are.

I was hand watering with rain water all summer prior to this, and the sprinkler is running off our tap water which is a rather "hard" water, which shouldn't be ideal.

Why are they flowering again now? Should I pinch the flowers, or can I get a second harvest?!?!

It just seemed strange, so I figured I'd see what you guys had to say...

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RE: Blueberries Flowering now (September 9) - Why?

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  • Posted by fruitnut z7b-8a,4500ft SW TX (My Page) on
    Tue, Sep 9, 14 at 22:10

No chance of harvest off those flowers in zone 6. Even in my greenhouse anything flowering now won't ripen until winter or early spring.

They can flower due to pruning, change in weather, etc. So your change in watering may have had some effect. The time interval doesn't seem enough. So they may have flowered without that.

Usually it's a small fraction of total bloom, 1-5%. So next springs bloom shouldn't be affected.

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