Hi All,
My "2 EUROPEAN BLUEBERRY BILBERRY" plants finally fruited after four years.
The fruit is bitter and sour. I spit them out.
And that is easy to do and they contain a round pit the size and hardness of buckshot (a small pea).
Methinks I mistakenly planted an ornamental variety. I could not find descriptions of pits with a web search.
Anyway it is being removed this year.
Your thoughts as to a replacement? Zone 6B.
Many thanks,
-T
T snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid wrote in news:ueg9bo$3ap5v$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Common name are unreliable, but I don't think you have a bilberry at all. Vaccinium species have small seeds distriibuted in the fruit, not single pits.
I even made the seller give me the Latin name. I noticed he is not in business. Four years down the dumper.
T wrote: ...
that sucks. :( some people are jerks.
songbird
Or it was an accidental swap without any malice on the seller's part.
... lot can happen in 4 years as well :/
The leaves exactly match every photo I have seen of them, including what ever caused the brown streaks. And the Latin name was the same. So, he may have been trickled as well. But he was selling the at a large discount over the other guys so ...
I should have know better than to buy them from fleebay.
I pulled both of them out. Might have been a mistake. I could have used the seeds/pits to reload shotgun shells.
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