Aliceblue and Beckyblue Blueberries
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1979.33.3.84Abstract
Aliceblue and Beckyblue are two new rabbiteye blueberry cultivars recently released by the Fruit Crops Department of the University of Florida. The only rabbiteye blueberry cultivar previously introduced by the University of Florida was Bluegem in 1970. Aliceblue and Beckyblue resemble each other in chilling requirement, both requiring less chilling than any other rabbiteye cultivars available. As a consequence, they can be grown farther south, and in most years should fruit well as far south as the line between Daytona Beach and Tampa in Central Florida. On the other hand, low chilling in blueberries is associated with early flowering, and Aliceblue and Beckyblue probably would not be reliable producers north of Florida because of their tendency to flower while the frost hazard in those regions is still high.
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