Blue Suede holds on to its foilage throughout the year. It is brightly colored in the fall and green in the winter.
For years, University of Georgia plant breeder D. Scott Nesmith has created new blueberry varieties for the commercial …
Sunrise Blueberry Variety
A Northern Highbush Cultivar
- Ripens in the early season.
- Plants are moderately vigorous, upright.
- Moderately productive.
- Fruit are medium in size.
- Moderately firm, are light blue in color.
- Fairly small picking scar.
- Susceptible to stem blight in North Carolina.
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Prince: Rabbiteye Blueberry Variety
Prince blueberries.
Photo courtesy of USDA.
Photo courtesy of USDA.
An early-season variety for Mississippi.
- Chilling requirement: 300 hours to 400 hours.
- Bloom time: Normally blooms three to five days before Climax — late February to early March in southern growing region.
- Ripening period:
Yadkin: Rabbiteye Blueberry Variety
- Chilling requirement: 500 hours to 600 hours.
- Ripening period: Ripens in Mississippi, late June to late July.
- Plant yield, vigor and growth habits: Plants are moderately vigorous, productive and have a semi-upright growth habit.
- Berry qualities: Berries are medium
Tifblue: Rabbiteye Blueberry Variety
Tifblue blueberries.
- Chilling requirement: 600 hours to 700 hours.
- Bloom time: Blooms in mid to late March in Southern Mississippi and ripens from late June through July.
- Plant yield, vigor and growth habits: Tifblue plants are productive and have a
Columbus: Rabbiteye Blueberry Variety
- Chilling requirements: 600 hours.
- Bloom time: Blooms just ahead of Tifblue.
- Ripening period: Ripens just ahead of Tifblue.
- Plant yield, vigor and growth habits: Plants are very productive, vigorous and have a semi-upright to upright growth habit.
- Berry qualities: Berries
Montgomery: Rabbiteye Blueberry Varieties
An early-season variety for Mississippi.
- Chilling requirements: 550 hours.
- Ripening period: Ripens late May to mid-June, overlapping with Premier, in Southern Mississippi.
- Plant yield, vigor and growth habits: Plants are very productive, moderately vigorous, and have a semi-upright growth habit.
Ira: Rabbiteye Blueberry Varieties
- Chilling requirements: 600 hours.
- Bloom time: Blooms several days after Tifblue.
- Ripening period: Ripening occurs from mid-June to July in Southern Mississippi.
- Plant yield, vigor and growth habits: Blooms are relatively self-fertile. Plants are productive, vigorous, have an upright growth
Onslow: Rabbiteye Blueberry Variety
- Chilling requirement: 500 hours to 600 hours.
- Ripening Period: Ripens about the same time as Powderblue.
- Plant yield, vigor and growth habits: Plants are productive, vigorous, and have an upright growth habit.
- Plant pathogen susceptibility: Onslow has fairly broad soil