The Cultivar Situation in Lowbush Blueberry in Nova Scotia

Abstract

The planting out of fields to cultivars of the lowbush blueberry is quite recent. To date the following three cultivars have been named: Augusta, Brunswick, and Chignecto. Since yields have been nearly as great with seedlings from superior clones as with rooted cuttings, and the cost of raising seedling plants is much less, growers are using seedlings rather than rooted cuttings. Yields two or three times those from native stands are expected from plantings.