Description
Fairly large berries for a wild shrub. Local high elevation plants can reach over 2m in height over than in spread. Starts producing berries at a young age as the smallest plants bearing fruit didn’t reach my knee.
- Seed Count: 50-75
- Collection Date: August 2024
- Hardiness Zone: 4b-9
- Height and Width: 2.5m x 2.5m
- Germination test type: float
How to germinate Vaccinum ovalifolium seeds:
Soak seed 24 hours. Surface sow in seeding medium of equal parts sand and peat. Tamp firm. Mist. Keep moist. Keep seedbed shaded. Warm stratify 15 days at 28C. Cold stratify 15 days at 2C. Expose to spring conditions for germination. Good germination under a regime of 14 hours of light at 28C; followed by 10 hrs of hrs of darkness at 13C. Keep seedlings shaded from strong direct sun. Great fresh, cooked, dried, jelly and wine. Full sun; humus rich acidic moist soil
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