Advantages Of Blueberry Renovation
June 18, 2015 Blueberry fruit on last year’s wood and blueberry bushes require annual pruning to maintain vigorous growth. If pruning is neglected, the bush has many older canes and little new growth. In renovation, growers remove all the canes by grinding off the plant in the spring. It requires sacrificing one or two years of production.
The blueberry bush responds by growing many new shoots. Dozens of new shoots emerge and grow quickly to form a dense clump of new shoots.
Several years of increased pruning is needed to thin the new shoots. Growers should remove two thirds of the new shoots the first year and then about half the new shoots the second.
There are a number of advantages of renovation:
- Renovation of existing fields allows growers to quickly develop a new crop of fruitful shoots.
- It’s quicker and cheaper than replanting.
- Growers lose only a few years of production.
Renovation is likely to expose hidden problems in the field. Growers may discover virus diseases when the vigorous new grow of infected plants shows symptoms.
Renovation is only a short term stimulus for some fields. These older problematic fields on good sites are probably the best candidates for replanting.
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