Farmer Reveals SECRETS of Growing Blueberries in Florida!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- If you want to grow blueberries in Florida - especially North/Central Florida, this video is for you. Bill Hall shares how to grow blueberries in Florida, as we visit his blueberry u-pick.
Growing blueberries in Florida isn't as hard as you might think, provided you grow the right varieties and give them care. In this video, my friend Bill Hall of B & G Blueberries in Ft. McCoy, Florida, shares his experience with blueberry varieties for Florida, blueberry irrigation, keeping blueberries safe from deer, rabbiteye blueberries, Southern Highbush varieties, and running a blueberry u-pick with rabbiteye varieties.
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I searched how to grow blueberries in florida...I never expected to get brought back to the town in Florida I grew up in! Ft mccoy! Thanks for the info I live in north Florida now with 170 acres that I'm wanting to get started. I sure wish I could talk to yall in person someday. I'd definitely drive to ft Mccoy
This guy needs his own channel... there's a whole generation of knowledge sitting there....
Agreed!!!
Make more content with him lol, first time watching you might have 😅
too much trouble to run a channel. Just let someone else pick his brain on video every so often,
This is so awesome! This farm was one of the coolest parts of my childhood. My grandpa has poured so so much into it and I loved seeing this.
That is fantastic! Nice to see you here, Emmalee. He is the best.
👍👍💜🙏
Im in silver springs and would love to come check out the farm sometime.
That was THE best lesson in growing blueberries that I've ever seen. The man is a wealth of simple knowledge. He didn't get into the weeds, he just put out plain and simple advice. Couldn't have come at a better time as I'm planting my Rabbit Eyes now. Thank you!
Great video! I bought a blueberry farm in north Florida that was in disrepair. I learned more from this video than anything I’ve been able to watch or read from official publications from associations or universities.
That is wonderful to hear - thank you.
How’s your blueberry farm going now?
This is probably the best video on growing blueberries I've found. Thanks David.
You are welcome. Bill is an expert.
Thank you David for not telling him to shut the gator off you had to be thinking people was going to be griping about the noise in the background😂 that's respect kids learn it love it!!
The best blueberry video I have seen. This guy knows his berries!
I agree 👍💯 I have had such a rough time in growing blueberries. Have a Blessed day 💕😀
Watching this after DtG mentioned it in a recent video. I just bought half a dozen rabbit eyes for my food forest, and the information here is so fantastic. What a great resource--and what a good man Mr. Hall seems to be!
Watching this while eating my breakfast of plain yogurt and frozen blueberries.
Love, love, loved this! So much so, that I rewound, and watched two more times. Thank you for dying this video, and sharing this wonderful man with all of us.
Wow this guy knows his blue berries! Great video
I really enjoyed listening to this gentleman’s knowledge!
So glad I found this video tonight.I just bought my first three blueberry bushes.One of my sawmill customers will give me all the pine bark I can haul and found a farm supply store in Monroeville that had Canadian Sphagnum Pete moss. My blueberry bushes are gonna be happy.Thank you DTG !
Excellent video. Highly informative. It solidified my decisions regarding blueberry plantings. Totally awesome...
‘Been growing them for fifteen years, and learned a few things from this!
I watched this just for the thumbnail. And then was amazed by the actual video content. BTW, can I just adopt this guy as a long lost Uncle?
Very loving video David. Thanks for sharing. Bill, you are awesome. Loved your tour.
The best Blueberry grower in the state you are Bill Hall! Awesome farm!
Hey Sherry. I've been following David for some time now. Isn't he great ?
So, how the heck are you ? I haven't seen you since your guardian adventures. I'm semi-retired now only working for a couple convience store chains! Still cracking safes. Give me a call, same #, I hope the Lord continues to bless you & your family.
Jim
Thank you, Mr Hall, for showing us around your farm and for a simple, understandable, common sense lesson in how to grow blueberries. ~ Lisa
So cool, I used to pick at their farm when my kids (adults with kids of their own now) were little. I hope to take my grands there this season, thank you for the reminder!
That is great. The Hall's are wonderful people.
This man has forgotten more about blueberry plants than most will ever know. Really enjoyed this . Thank you.
Fresh blueberry season is our favourite season!
I was looking to find information about growing blueberries in the south. This video was chalked full of good information. I wish I could visit the gentleman’s U Pick blueberry farm.
ok, ONE MORE TIME!!! I will try Blueberries for the last time in 2024. This video gives me hope
Love it, I have pulled the bushes that were around my electrical and cable boxes at the front of the house and replaced them with blueberries plants. So far so good as I am tasting the first year production. Thanks for the video. Clement
Good work, Clement.
Good idea. If you're gonna have bushes, might as well get some food out of the deal.
Great video thanks for sharing info on blueberries in Florida.
You are very welcome.
What a wonderful man. Thank you for sharing your friendship with all of us!
Great video! Bill seems like an awesome guy and I could listen to him all day long. Thanks for all of the great knowledge
Wonderful story. I'm inspired now. I'm gonna plant me some rabbit eye in my acidic soil nr Clwrtr. When I was a kid I spent my summers in N WI. The woods were loaded with pine trees and wild blueberries and eatable mushrooms. Those early thoughts of foraging for berries are vividly etched in my mind.
I just started growing these "Rabbit Eye" Premier. They had berries on them when I bought them.
So glad this video is still up. Im probably 30 minutes away from his farm and just lost my container blueberry bush. The entire potted bush just turned brown and died in August 2023. I just discovered out that I purchased Northern highbush plants instead of Southern highbush. Need to try some Rabbit Eye and figure out the best potting mix.
What a delight! Thank you so much for this visit and all the practical gems.
That guy is a wealth of knowledge.
Brooo this guy is a wealth of knowledge. Thank you both!
Beautiful video! 20 minutes went by fast. Thank you, greetings from Poland.
Hurray for Poland! I have met some wonderful Poles.
I totally enjoyed listening to this man. I would love to tour his farm and pick berries.
I so enjoyed this video Mr.Hall seems to be a very nice and intelligent man. I learned so much from this video. Thanks!
Thanks. Great video
Wholesome as heck.
Great video on Rabbiteyes.!! My parents have about a 1/4 acre of them.
This was so cool. Bill rocks. We are been planting rabbit eyes in our backyard food forest. This was great info.
I am having great luck with the Biloxi variety! Great producer and long season!
That was fantastic. So much knowledge being shared. Thank you
Nice piece if property you got there. The live oaks are beautiful
My grandmother used to have blueberry bushes that were over 100 years old the house she lived in was built in exactly 1900 in fact it was the old Rosewood house. They were there when she bought the house in 1970s I really wish I got a couple of those before she sold it. But I wasn't into the gardening thing back then. They would sprot new branches from the roots you constantly had to cut them down or they would take up the whole yard and that soil was straight sand and they loved it and they produced a lot. Oh man the more I talk about it the more depressed it makes me. Kicking myself right now.
I remember stopping by and buying Okra. The blueberries were out of season. A fishing buddy stopped by when we left Steinhatchi from a fishing trip.
Awesome terrific video!!!
Thank you guys!
New sub here great video. I’m in Florida too and man o man my blueberries are out of control. Thanks for sharing wow 1978 god bless my brother
Thank you - welcome! Glad your'e here.
Brother i was about to plant my backyard with all southern highbush lol glad i saw this video
Thank you for this very informative video. Bill Hall seems like a sweetie and I love David the Good!
Love this David very good video this is something I have struggled with for a long time.
Good stuff our generation needs to know this stuff
I agree. Bill has wisdom.
Hey, nice t-shirts! Glad I watched this video and took notes. Just picked a couple gallons at a u-pick in nearby Grandin, and thought about planting some seeds. I reckon whatever they were growing will grow for me...if I do what Bill does. Better go gather some pine needles...
I'm dealing with fungus and some kind of disease where the growth is stunted here in South FL. Southern High bush is very hard to keep healthy.
Great video for FL!! It all depends on the area you live in. In zone 7B Arkansas classic Rabbiteyes are way better than any Southern Highbush. They produce more here and can easily live 40+ years. While I believe in So California Southern Highbush is better.
I have 800 windsor, emerald, jewell, and a few more old varieties in my back field right now and I want to be fishing too.
I've one blueberry bush. Trying it out....should produce next year. Ty 4 sharing. Greetings from Dade City, FL.
Wolf🐺 👍
Don't you need 2 for pollination
@ArtistCreek Yes, mine fizzled out.
That whole area of Ft McCoy, Citra, Cross Creek, and Hawthorne is just the most beautiful part of Florida - and that's one hell of a statement from a Tampa boy!
It is wonderful.
Good morning David. If you're ever on Pine Island drop by and visit us.
Thanks Dave. Great video.
In fact it’s not about pH, it’s about reduced soil, you can thrive them on alkaline soil as well without pH correction, check AEA Kempf video on blueberries !
I wish i have blueberry plant watching from Philippines 🇵🇭
Awesome video 👍. This guy answered alot of my questions. Thank you 💖☺️🐕🐾🐾🐈🐾
Excellent! Loved every minute. Thank you.🙂
Great video, very informative.
I’ll keep buying them! Never mind , too many variables for me!
sweet production
I've got to buy more blueberry bushes! I lost 2 over the winter. I only had 4 so a 50% loss. I'm thinking about going with a variety that has the berries that ripen all at once instead of over an extended period like my current ones. Do you have any suggestions for zone 7b?
I'm thinking I need to add so.e more coffee grounds onto my 3 bushes. I think I have 2 RabitEar and one southern highbush in large pots. With more organics added it should help out when we get 9 inches of rain like we had three days ago.
Fabulous video! So enjoyable to watch as well as very informative. Thank you 🙏🏻
I live Florida in zone 9b and we get less chill hours than the Ocala area. 200/ year, no more than 300 if we have an exceptionally cold winter. So I thought southern highbush would be better for my area, because they seem to require less chill hours than rabbiteye.
Is that correct?
I planted a couple different kinds of blueberries on the sunny side of a huge pine tree. The pine tree got hit by lightning and wind one christmas and slowly died. The blueberries are still doing great. Never water them with the water from the hose. Our ground water is too alkaline.
I have read that pine bark but not pine straw will help acidify soil.
Thanks for the video! Have you managed to grow good crops of organic blueberries in Florida and in the tropics, David? I'm in a swamp in southern coastal SC, which is pretty much north Florida climate, and I've always had bad luck with blueberries, maybe its the heat and humidity and all the flooding. I'm having slightly better luck now using fabric pots and pine needles in the container mix. Should I grow Rabbit-eye or Southern Highbush? I'm not sure which varieties I have now. Thanks for the blueberry information David! Cheers!
What an amazing amount of wisdom and information. David do you know what the varieties most likely are in most grocery stores? I want to try and save seeds for both Blueberries and Raspberries from the store, but here in Thailand I have no idea what the varieties might be.
Great🔘 farmer I'll have to go check it out! Our non profit is near there!
Really enjoyed this video. 😃
You are jn N florida where you get frost and have a Spring time.
What about the more Southern parts of Florida where it never freezes or frosts?
This was an awesome video! What rabbiteye variety do you recommend for a middle Georgia permaculture Homestead?
Awesome!!💜🙏
Lawtey here. New to Florida. Loved this video. Would love to take my littles to your farm.
Goodness gracious! I just realized that my husband bought me your book for Christmas! God is good!
nice video yesterday I got two blueberry 2 raspberry and 2 thorn less blackberry.
Great!
Freakin awesome video brother !!!
(No wait you're lying !!! That's Mary Jane !!! LOL !!! ) 😎🤣😎🤣😎
Hehheh
@David the Good, too bad you didn't have your guitar up in Gainesville on the porch when you told that story. Now that would have made a great song my brother !!! BAHAHAHA !!!
Be blessed and keep it green ya crazy, mad, scientist 😎😎😎
Good video... Thank you...
Hi David thank you for sharing such a very informative video. Could show the blueberries seeds from one hand smashed blueberrie, I have what looks like a blueberrie tree or bushel, I hand smash one blueberrie, it has 4 tp 5 hard seeds, so I cannot eat one blueberrie unless I take off its seeds
I've got a lot of good ideas. Like I know where to get pine bark. Thanks.
Well have a few , but are the high bush , I am in SwFL , is it to hot for rabbit eye ?
Did know about pruning the high bush like that , great info
Awesome video man thank you and WHEWWWW when he finally shut that ridiculous gator off WOWWWW!🤙🇺🇸🙏
I’m in South Georgia . I just purchased 5 varieties of southern high bush . They are star , emerald , misty , O’Neal and jewel . I haven’t planted them yet . I hate to hear that they are more difficult than rabbiteyes . I hope I’m not wasting my time
I think it depends on your location because it sounds like this guy is in Ocala, FL. The UF extension office shows Southern hig bush grows well in Central Florida but rabbit eye is better farther North because of the difference in temperature between the zones. Out of curiosity since you commented 9 months ago how is it going?
@@TeddyCrochet They didn’t grow much this first growing season but may need to get established. Only one variety died so no terrible .
Being from N Fla, I would think that Live Oak leaves would be better around berries as they vreak down faster than Pine Needles & supply own compost that way ? I feed the bees sugar water when the flowers run low.
Great video! Very helpful. I have 4 emerald that are amazing producers! I'm in central Florida 9a/9b. I planted them in cattle mineral bins that I made in to self wicking tubs. It's been very successful so far. I couldn't find any more last year so I ended up buying 8 that are labeled "assorted blueberries". I know it wasn't the most wise decision. I have them potted for now in a different area of our food forest. Is there a way to tell what kind they are? 6 of the 8 have a generous harvest on them already and they are rather small yet. Thank you for any info!
Soil is the key
How do you get the chill ours required for the blueberry to fruit? Because we all know Florida is a tropical place so theres no chilling time
I only have a small property but trying to produce all the food I can… this year I seem to be getting rust on leaves.. we have had a very humid spring already and hot but I’m not sure if they should be culled (it’s pretty much all 4 of my plants) but I have some in a different location and they are too shaded (not producing well but growing) but seem to not get rust as much… maybe just this season? Any suggestions for organic treatment ? I am just north of middle GA if that helps at all sounds like GA should be a give climate for blueberries so I’d love to be able to keep them and keep them building structure for years to come… I will absolutely be putting down pine needles from now on wonderful time thank you sir
milk spray with water...google it.
@@robmontgomery9711 thank you sir
so knowledgeable.
blueberries are a bit intimidating to try
Bill is amazing - I was fortunate to catch him. Humble but so knowledgeable.
Don't be afraid to plant them! They're much easier than annuals if you ask me. We have some and pretty much all I do is fertilize them twice a year.
I have been thinking about it and dont know yet if there are enough "chilling days" where I am or ones that dont need much coolness. Places sell them however can they actually grow successfully in zone 10b? I heard they grow a little more inland and north like Plant City, Florida, and further up. I really need to research it more. Anyone had luck in 10b? and if so what kind? I have some bees that love the bidens alba and somewhat my planted flowers but only have seen one bee that looked like a bumblebee. Can they be hand polinated if one is trying a couple or four plants?
@@thehomeplatespecial597 I looked up Rabbiteye Blueberries and according to the USDA they're native all the way down to Collier County. As far as pollination goes there are a number of bees that pollinate blueberries. There's even one called the Southeastern Blueberry Bee.
Bad Drivers of Columbus, Georgia wow thank you! I just got online to look up Rabbiteye. Thanks to David bc I had never heard of them and they sounded like they might work. Thank you, BdocG!
I am wondering about how he controls birds eating all his berries - or does he just out produce the amount of berries the birds consume. I am a backyard grower with 3 plants and the birds completely wipe out the harvest unless I build a cage around the bushes.
We're also in Marion County, greetings.
Great place to live.
@@davidthegood I've never bothered to check out this blueberry farm, but I learned a lot from your video today. I'm glad I found it. I have 2 cultivars of Rabbiteye.
I saw there’s a few rabbiteye varieties, which variety and where to buy it? Thanks!
i always wonder if those black hoses spew out HOT water when they are first turned on, like regular hoses do....which burns the roots.how do you overcome this or is it even a problem?i ask because if you put water into something painted black, the sun will heat up that water.have you ever gone out and FELT the first issue of water with your hands? ive heard people having trouble with their plants and it turned out the water was simply too hot when it hit the soil..idk though.
What are the hills they are planted on made from?
We bought two plants a couple years ago and they just never grew. Should I dig them up and put the pine mulch in the hole and re-plant, or just mulch the top of the soil around the plant ?