Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

Very nice, very neat, very organized. I like it.

This is the last month to dig any Blueberry Babies to transplant still allowing them time to root before the soil warms back up.



The 2 root shoots to the left of the Mother Plant are Babies. You can dig them up, cut the root free from the Mother, and transplant after "Topping".



I cut the tops off as the Baby will grow Limb Buds when it's ready. Till then it just grows roots. You can see in the first picture above I do not use the soil I dug out. It needs to be pulverized since heavy clay or in my case I had a load of native top soil trucked in years ago that has sand in it. Here I put shovels of that instead as it will settle around the existing roots of the cutting much better. You are looking for a soil PH of around 5.5 so a sulfur soil acidifier without fertilizer is always a good addition right around the fresh dug area.



You may have to blow up the picture to see all the cuttings I planted but they go well past the Blueberry plant in the picture. The Kiln is growing in a way that I'm hardening off our property. A solid Southern Highbush Blueberry hedge is next impossible to get thru. Also I'm adding Muscadine vines with 16ft Hog panels underneath. I don't want my place to look like a Compound but that's exactly what I'm working towards.