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 <T@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:ueg9bo$3ap5v$1@dont-email.me:

> 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

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.

On 9/21/23 09:13, Alfred Falk wrote:
> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:ueg9bo$3ap5v$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> 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
>
> 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:
....
> I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
> I noticed he is not in business. Four years
> down the dumper.

that sucks. :( some people are jerks.

songbird

On 2023-09-21, songbird wrote:
> T wrote:
> ...
>> I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
>> I noticed he is not in business. Four years
>> down the dumper.
>
> that sucks. :( some people are jerks.

Or it was an accidental swap without any malice on the seller's part.

.... lot can happen in 4 years as well :/

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On 9/25/23 06:36, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 2023-09-21, songbird wrote:
>> T wrote:
>> ...
>>> I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
>>> I noticed he is not in business. Four years
>>> down the dumper.
>>
>> that sucks. :( some people are jerks.
>
> 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.