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Bluecrop

The most widely grown blueberry cultivar. Like all blueberries it needs genuinely acid soil — around pH 4.5 to 5.5 — which in most British gardens means a container of ericaceous compost rather than the open ground.

A cultivar of Blueberry. Everything on this page is about the cultivar; how to grow the species is on the plant page, and how big the tree gets is on the rootstock page.

Names and origin

Origin
New Jersey, mid 20th century

Pollination

What this cultivar needs before it will set a crop.

Self-fertility
Partly self-fertile
source

Sourced guidancehigh confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry pollination

Checked 2026-08-13

Partner
Crops better with a partner
Sourced guidanceDepends on conditionshigh confidence

Applies when: Sets a crop alone. A second blueberry cultivar flowering at the same time gives a heavier crop of larger berries. This is the one soft fruit where the second plant is worth the space.

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry pollination

Checked 2026-08-13

Ploidy
diploid
source

Horticultural consensusmoderate confidence

  • NIAB — National Institute of Agricultural Botany: Cultivar ploidy records

Checked 2026-08-13

Partners needed
one

What that means in practice

The partner must be another blueberry cultivar flowering at the same time. GrowingHQ does not record blueberry flowering groups, so the checker will not compute a verdict between two blueberries — pick two mid-season cultivars and rely on the species advice.

Partners for Bluecrop, from the 2 blueberry cultivars GrowingHQ holds

Computed by the pollination engine from the flowering groups, ploidy and recorded pairings on each record — not a hand-written list. The scope is exactly what the heading says: these are the answers that exist in this catalogue, not the answers that exist.

No compatible partner in this catalogue

That is a statement about GrowingHQ’s coverage rather than about the cultivar. A nursery list will contain compatible cultivars this catalogue does not hold — the pollination mechanisms page explains how to work one out.

1 further cultivar returns no verdict, because a flowering group or an incompatibility group is not recorded on one side. The engine reports that rather than assuming a value: Chandler.

The fruit

Season
Mid-season
source

Sourced guidancehigh confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry cultivars — season

Checked 2026-08-13

Use
Eating, Preserving
source

Sourced guidancehigh confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry cultivars — use

Checked 2026-08-13

Keeping
Keeps a few weeks
source

Sourced guidancehigh confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry cultivars — storage

Checked 2026-08-13

The plant

Vigour
More vigorous than average
source

Sourced guidancehigh confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry cultivars — vigour

Checked 2026-08-13

Habit
Upright
source

Horticultural consensusmoderate confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry cultivars — habit

Checked 2026-08-13

Cropping
Crops regularly
source

Sourced guidancehigh confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry cultivars — cropping

Checked 2026-08-13

Fruits on
Wood made last year
source

Sourced guidancemoderate confidence

  • Royal Horticultural Society: Blueberry — pruning

Checked 2026-08-13

Why that decides the pruning

Fruit forms on stems produced the previous season, which then decline. Pruning removes the oldest wood at the base each year to force new stems.

Cultivar record reviewed 2026-08-13.