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Alaska blueberry Alaska Blueberry

Vaccinium ovalifolium
Also known as early blueberry (en) oval-leaf bilberry (en) oval-leaf blueberry (en) oval-leaf huckleberry (en)

A variety of blueberry

How to sow Alaska blueberry: Plant plants into soil or pots.

Sun requirement for Alaska blueberry: Plant in Full Sun

Perennial flowering plants with sweet, indigo-colored berries. Blueberry plants are usually erect, prostrate shrubs that range in height from 10cm to 4m high, depending on the cultivar.

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Alaska blueberry facts

Lifespan

Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less
Optimal temperature 8–17 °C
Absolute temperature 5–25 °C
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal rainfall 500–700 mm/year
Absolute rainfall 250–1700 mm/year
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal soil pH 4.5–6
Absolute soil pH 4–7.5
FAO EcoCrop

Crop cycle

0–0 days
FAO EcoCrop

Max altitude

3500 m
FAO EcoCrop

Optimal light

cloudy skies to very bright
FAO EcoCrop

Growing Alaska blueberries

  1. Prepare acidic, well-drained soil 4 weeks before planting out
  2. Water regularly at planting out every week
  3. Mulch with pine bark 2 weeks after planting out
  4. Feed with acid-loving plant food 8 weeks after planting out every month
  5. Net the bushes against birds 2 weeks before first harvest
  6. Pick ripe berries at first harvest every week
  7. Prune out old stems 6 months after first harvest

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Ecological requirements

Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Vaccinium myrtillus L.

Family / Taxonomy Magnoliopsida
Dilleniidae
Ericales
Ericaceae
Life form sub-shrub
Life span perennial
Habit erect
Optimal soil depth medium (50-150 cm)
Optimal soil texture light, organic
Optimal soil fertility high
Optimal soil salinity low (<4 dS/m)

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) ECOCROP, the crop ecological requirements database. Version 1. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/ecocrop. Accessed through the CGIAR Climate Action Data Hub, https://cgiar-climate-data-hub.github.io/catalog/ecocrop_1/.

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