Blueberry plants HELP! ADVICE Please!

[wantingagirl2b#4]

I am wanting to plant blueberries but I don't want the GM stuff! Anyone know how to get a blueberry bush that is not of hybrid or GM if they do GM blueberries I don't know. I am looking into these at gurneys.com/816 can anyone let me know their insight on this. I got my seed catalog from rareseeds -Baker Creek Heirloom seeds but they don't sell blueberry bushes
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[henny penny]

Check out Waters Blueberry Farm. They sell nice sized bushes by mail and we've had good luck with their plants. They are a super nice family, too.

[Daffodil]

According to this site, there are no commercially available GM blueberries. Hybrids are probably not something you need to avoid. With plants like tomatoes, people may prefer to avoid hybrids, not because they pose any potential health or environmental risk, but because if you save the seeds and plant them, the plant that grows won't be identical to the parent plant. Production of hybrid seed is something that generally needs to be done on a large, commercial scale, so when you buy hybrid seeds you're supporting big business and not encouraging perpetuation of varieties people can save and pass on themselves without paying for them.

But named varieties of plants like blueberries and apples are all like hybrid tomatoes - their seeds don't grow into plants like the parent plant. People get new apple or blueberry plants by taking cuttings from existing plants - and anyone (who knows how) can do it themselves. Any variety of blueberry is one you can use to start new plants for yourself and others, so a hybrid blueberry is not a dead end in the same way a hybrid tomato is.

[wantingagirl2b#4]

Wow!! Thanks Daffodil for putting that so well so I can understand all this. Sometimes overwhelmed feeling takes over because you don't know what is right???? Love this site with such great knowledgeable people Thanks so much off to check out Waters.

[lmonter]

You can also check at Raintree Nursery, Simmons Plant Farm, etc. for blueberry (among other) plants. Or a local-to-you blueberry farm or nursery or whatnot - they should have things acclimated to your area.

[wantingagirl2b#4]

I checked with my local nursery but she didn't know if they came from a seed or what? She told me who she bought them from so I called them and told them she told me to call them with the questions but she didn't know the answer well this lady didn't either. We never really know what we are getting I don't guess.

[Theoretica]

Great site, thanks for sharing!