Nelson
Variety of Cultivated blueberry · Vaccinium corymbosum
Large-fruited, sweet variety with strong winter hardiness and a long picking window.
9
5
1🇺🇸 USA 1988
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmtartsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Bluecrop x (Berkeley x Bluecrop) offspring
- Breeder
- USDA
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 2 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, firm, light-blue berries with a notably sweet, good flavour.
Growth
Upright, vigorous bush of 1.5-1.8 m.
Yield
High yield; mid to late season ripening.
Notes
Very hardy and productive, popular in commercial plantings.
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