Patriot
Variety of Cultivated blueberry · Vaccinium corymbosum
Extremely hardy early variety with large berries and tolerance of wetter soils.
9
5
1🇺🇸 USA 1976
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmtartsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- (Dixi x Michigan LB-1) x Earliblue
- Breeder
- University of Maine / USDA
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 1.8 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, slightly flat, firm berries with very good, balanced flavour.
Growth
Compact, upright bush of 1.0-1.5 m.
Yield
High yield; early to mid-early ripening.
Notes
One of the coldest-hardy cultivars (to -35 C) and more tolerant of Phytophthora root rot.
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