Personally, I would transplant it somewhere else. It's not getting enough light. Make your plant happy and it will give you berries. Without enough light it will be a poor producer.
Edit: As others are saying, don't move it now! Either when it's dormant or in the fall (the opposite of bloom time) is best. It will set back its growth since it will need a season to reestablish, but after that should do better.
Indeed. When fully dormant is when to move them. They transplant quite easily with such shallow compact root balls. I would use the summer to prepare a planting area with optimal ph and transplant just before they leave dormancy in late winter.
Oh no, I lost my crop of… *checks notes*… 1/2 a cup of blueberries. /s
You are right though that woody plants in general should be transplanted while dormant.
It’s growing towards the light. If you want it to grow more upwards prune away the sideways shoots later and keep strong straight shoots. Bush looks fine by the way.
I personally would just remove that sideways shoot later and leave it for now. That way your growth is more in balance and not leaning towards one side.
You can transplant a mature blueberry when dormant. I’ve moved many of them. I would move your planting bed away from the house so they can get more sun.
I mean, it doesn’t have to be a mirror, just anything that’ll reflect more light…at least until it’s dormant and can be moved because that’s obviously the better long term solution. But in the mean time it for those who have a shadier garden…
By doing that the plant gets much less sunlight (food.) pruning is best done when it's not flowering.
I personally think that would make the plant less large and thus less berries every season. It would be best to move the plant to a more sunny location for better drainage and sunlight.
I would suggest relocation as any type of berry plant will need a lot of light. From the pictures you took it seems like they are mostly shaded. They are growing sideways because of phototropism (meaning they are trying to find the light they need to grow). If you want them to survive they need way more light. :)
I honestly thought it would get tons of light here since that section of grass gets blasted by the sun all summer. I think the house causes more shade than I realized.
That’s valid, in horticulture we try not to place anything super close to the house as it commonly gets more shade then people think. However there are several shade plants that would love this spot.
If you are going to move it this winter after they go dormant, take the summer and fall to establish a planting area with optimal ph. Then you can move it just before it comes out of dormancy. You should also add another with a similar bloom time as that will increase your yields. You can simply get cuttings from someone else’s blueberries and root them over the summer.
Ok, the consensus seems to be that it's not getting enough sun. I feel kinda dumb now. 🤦♀️
To clarify, this is at the back of the house which gets full sun probably 8 hours a day. So that's why I thought it was sufficient. Clearly I misjudged. Or perhaps I should have taken the picture at noon, not 8:30 this morning. (I just took the pic below - it's currently 12:45pm)
https://preview.redd.it/yrtrrgpqu2uc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1873e165c15c0f15228c73bbb96d37e912ee5768
Thank you for all of the feedback. Some of these answers gave me a chuckle.
I was going to say the same thing, like did anyone consider this pic was taken in the morning and maybe it gets several hours of full afternoon sun (which is significantly stronger)? I'm not saying it doesn't need more, but these comments are acting like it looks like this all day long, it's obvious this is not a mid day pic because of the angle of the shadows, not obviously morning but I'm not surprised to learn that it is.
It's leaning towards the sun because blueberry needs all day full sun to grow ideally. Think about what the plant needs not what looks pretty from the curb or your plants will start doing things like this. That corner is a shaded area so only partial shade plants there.
https://preview.redd.it/keggf5dry3uc1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=60bbfac83ea6c1311214d082ced0bbf43b2e46af
I'm so sorry, I also have absolutely no full sun areas in my garden. I feel your pain.
But also your photo reminded me of this meme so vividly I spit out my tea lol
You planted it right next to your wall. It's unfortunately got its own best interests in mind. It might still be young enough that you could move it but you need to remove a sizable amount of soil and roots with it.
If you do move it, maybe get a professional arborist.
It is and will reach, but you should be ok if you get 6 hours full sun. You don't always have the luxury of space to put something in the best spot. But your situation should be workable. Right now i would prune back that big side shoot right to the ground, and you have a nice-looking bush that will pick up height over time. Currently, that big shoot is your main leader and leaders actually release pheromones that tell everyone else to stay back. So getting rid of that overambitious leader would be more than just aesthetics. Also some root specific fertilizer would be overall helpful. Ask/tell your roots to grow and you support your growth engine. Seaweed fertilizers are good for that, and organic so good for your blueberries and you. 26 years of professional ornamental gardening.
(i looked this up because i thought about doing that for more light in my room before, so DONT: install a mirror - "The sun's rays are very powerful and can focus through a mirror to create a hot spot that can ignite flammable materials. The hotter the day, the more likely it is that a mirror will focus the sun's rays and cause a fire. Mirrors are most likely to cause fires when they are placed in direct sunlight" )
i guess you'd need to forcefully cramp into the corner with some type of fence, or many sticks and gums, but probably your plant is happy the way it is growing right now! so in my opinion, being a gardener means that you almost want it to look like that, you want your garden to be so natural and wild that it is actually good for the nature in your area and bringing you a sense of being in nature - therefore i love that you didn't mow down the lawn (i'm not kidding), this way it is more heat- and dry period-resistant, important insects find refuge in it, ..
you could also think about expanding the area you grow berries etc in, so that you can move blueberries to the front, i imagine that that would look quite good! <3 then the shaddowy area could be other plants (maybe certain bushes or even a small tree)
When plants do this and you don't want to move them, you simply prune off the leaning growth. Very common in anything planted in shade that wants more sun.
Straight up, I'd cut the whole bush down except the brach in the light and train it up into a head level treebush, then use the bed for acid loving shade plants.
Train it. Plants need to be train, branches need to be trained.
If not the sun does it for you. Specially if you plant a Full Sun plant like blueberries in shade or partial shade
All off these answers are wrong…
The blueberry bush noticed how long your grass is and decided to start growing out over to cast a shadow and make the grass grow slower. Literally just mow the lawn and it will straighten back up.
Top it. When you top it you will want to take the main shoot & find the portion that splits in 2. Like a "Y" this will make the "Y" your top & all the lower branches will try & keep up with that top you made. (:
If you cut it all the way down to its nub. (The top shoot down to the nub) the plant will struggle to keep itself up & the outer foliage will droop outwardly & inwardly..
This can make your shrubs appear naked in areas.
Don't cut it down too far it's not a rose *lolz*
[Note: pasted from Google]
The names or these groups are derived from the number of cotyledons or seed leaves that the embryonic seedling has within its seed. A monocot, which an abbreviation for monocotyledon, will have only one cotyledon and a dicot, or dicotyledon, will have two cotyledons.
Find a good soil supplier & see about a tea to feed with. When you prune. It's good to tea feed few days before you prune & a day or 2 after wards. It will help keep the plant is homeostasis during stress.
Plants maintain homeostasis by regulating their temperature, water and salt (usable carbon) balance and the amount of sunlight they get.
Sodium (Na) is required by plants in only very very small quantities, or not at all. It is never deficient. In fact, it is toxic to plants, and they will sequester it in their membranes. This maybe tastes great to animals, which require sodium and chloride in quantity.
After you cut it. Get tomato trellis (steel ring with stakes & put it in the middle)
You may want to use some twine to hold the plant together while you put this in place. You don't have to be directly in the center. Don't worry about poking the roots. They will be fine.
The bark chips are what is making the leaves turn yellow.
🤙🏼
Step one: add more garden to the front. About the same width as the strip you have there now, but in front of where it is, along over to the driveway there.
Step two: move blueberry bush into said new strip, and fill the rest of your new garden space with mulch and more plants as desired!
Your blueberry bush begging to photosynthesize. It does not get enough sunlight in this spot and is reaching out to a point where it is getting sun. If you want it bushier you need to prune it back
LMFAO it's clearly reaching for the sun. I feel this was a troll post. But if it wasn't, your photos alone show you what it wants. More sun.
You say a large chunk of the day. Full sun means 8+ hours. And ideally they get more than the 8. So how many hours is it getting sun? Oh and the first and last hour of sunlight in a day doesn't fully count. It's very weak.
Move the house? :)
Or put up a large fence covered in tin foil to reflect the sun back into the shady spot.
Or find a spot where it is happier. It's talking to you.
It’s due to the placement. It’s reaching for the light. You’ll always have this issue unless you moved it to a better area tbh 🤷🏾♀️ don’t imagine you can do anything about it.
Move the sun or demolish your house, it's the only way.
In all seriousness though see how the sun is positioned in these photos, it's stretching and growing towards the light. You need to transplant it to a full sun environment or at least a place where it's getting adequate sun. I would assume it's currently on an east facing exposure and catching the south west abd westerly sun mostly?
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Personally, I would transplant it somewhere else. It's not getting enough light. Make your plant happy and it will give you berries. Without enough light it will be a poor producer. Edit: As others are saying, don't move it now! Either when it's dormant or in the fall (the opposite of bloom time) is best. It will set back its growth since it will need a season to reestablish, but after that should do better.
You would sacrifice the current crop if you take this approach. Better to wait to late fall or early spring to move it
Indeed. When fully dormant is when to move them. They transplant quite easily with such shallow compact root balls. I would use the summer to prepare a planting area with optimal ph and transplant just before they leave dormancy in late winter.
Oh no, I lost my crop of… *checks notes*… 1/2 a cup of blueberries. /s You are right though that woody plants in general should be transplanted while dormant.
Wait to move until dormant. They transplant quite easily. Their root systems are very shallow and compact.
It’s growing towards the light. If you want it to grow more upwards prune away the sideways shoots later and keep strong straight shoots. Bush looks fine by the way. I personally would just remove that sideways shoot later and leave it for now. That way your growth is more in balance and not leaning towards one side.
Makes sense. I imagine it's best to wait until fall? Or can I prune now? I don't want to cause damage. And thank you!
Yep, it's already set flower/fruit so it'd be wasteful to cut it now. Best to do it either in the winter or very early spring.
You can transplant a mature blueberry when dormant. I’ve moved many of them. I would move your planting bed away from the house so they can get more sun.
Use mirrors to trick it into thinking the sun is ....wherever you want it. It's a stupid bush, it doesn't know what a real sun is vs a mirror sun.
Great way to start a fire lmao
I don’t know, I think he may be on to something with this whole “trick your stupid bush” thing. I smell a series
I mean, it doesn’t have to be a mirror, just anything that’ll reflect more light…at least until it’s dormant and can be moved because that’s obviously the better long term solution. But in the mean time it for those who have a shadier garden…
wouldn't the energy have to be focused in to a smaller area to be a fire hazard ? like a concave mirror ?
Give the bush some shades 😎 it will be fine
By doing that the plant gets much less sunlight (food.) pruning is best done when it's not flowering. I personally think that would make the plant less large and thus less berries every season. It would be best to move the plant to a more sunny location for better drainage and sunlight.
Wouldn't it be better to trim the sideways shoot now so that the vertical part of the plant gets more of the nutrients to grow?
I would suggest relocation as any type of berry plant will need a lot of light. From the pictures you took it seems like they are mostly shaded. They are growing sideways because of phototropism (meaning they are trying to find the light they need to grow). If you want them to survive they need way more light. :)
I honestly thought it would get tons of light here since that section of grass gets blasted by the sun all summer. I think the house causes more shade than I realized.
That’s valid, in horticulture we try not to place anything super close to the house as it commonly gets more shade then people think. However there are several shade plants that would love this spot.
If you are going to move it this winter after they go dormant, take the summer and fall to establish a planting area with optimal ph. Then you can move it just before it comes out of dormancy. You should also add another with a similar bloom time as that will increase your yields. You can simply get cuttings from someone else’s blueberries and root them over the summer.
The area is too shaded it’s stretching for the light
It’s reaching for the sun, you planted it in a bad place.
In that position it is seeking the sun. Unless you move it it will continue to do so.
Plant it in the sun?
Ok, the consensus seems to be that it's not getting enough sun. I feel kinda dumb now. 🤦♀️ To clarify, this is at the back of the house which gets full sun probably 8 hours a day. So that's why I thought it was sufficient. Clearly I misjudged. Or perhaps I should have taken the picture at noon, not 8:30 this morning. (I just took the pic below - it's currently 12:45pm) https://preview.redd.it/yrtrrgpqu2uc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1873e165c15c0f15228c73bbb96d37e912ee5768 Thank you for all of the feedback. Some of these answers gave me a chuckle.
I was going to say the same thing, like did anyone consider this pic was taken in the morning and maybe it gets several hours of full afternoon sun (which is significantly stronger)? I'm not saying it doesn't need more, but these comments are acting like it looks like this all day long, it's obvious this is not a mid day pic because of the angle of the shadows, not obviously morning but I'm not surprised to learn that it is.
Plant it in the sun instead of the shadow of the house.
It looks like it’s reaching for the sun. You may want to consider moving them to a sunnier spot or just deal with them being funny looking.
It's leaning towards the sun because blueberry needs all day full sun to grow ideally. Think about what the plant needs not what looks pretty from the curb or your plants will start doing things like this. That corner is a shaded area so only partial shade plants there.
That big white thing on the right is blocking the sun. I recommend getting rid of it.
It's growing into the sun, because it needs that to live.
🎶 just gimme da light🎶 - Sean "Blueberry Bush" Paul
It’s reaching for the light. Putting it where it would get more even light will make all the difference.
It is stretching to better/more sunlight. You need to move it away from this house.
Move the house 2ft to the right
How many hours of sun are classified as “big chunk of the day”?
https://preview.redd.it/keggf5dry3uc1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=60bbfac83ea6c1311214d082ced0bbf43b2e46af I'm so sorry, I also have absolutely no full sun areas in my garden. I feel your pain. But also your photo reminded me of this meme so vividly I spit out my tea lol
Prune or tie it to a support to keep it straight? Like others said it will always try to grow towards the sun.
You planted it right next to your wall. It's unfortunately got its own best interests in mind. It might still be young enough that you could move it but you need to remove a sizable amount of soil and roots with it. If you do move it, maybe get a professional arborist.
They need sun…
While this one seems to crave it, iirc blueberries do best in ‘Part-Sun’
Light
probably a bad spot for it. Looks too shady
Sun.
The plant wants the sun
It is and will reach, but you should be ok if you get 6 hours full sun. You don't always have the luxury of space to put something in the best spot. But your situation should be workable. Right now i would prune back that big side shoot right to the ground, and you have a nice-looking bush that will pick up height over time. Currently, that big shoot is your main leader and leaders actually release pheromones that tell everyone else to stay back. So getting rid of that overambitious leader would be more than just aesthetics. Also some root specific fertilizer would be overall helpful. Ask/tell your roots to grow and you support your growth engine. Seaweed fertilizers are good for that, and organic so good for your blueberries and you. 26 years of professional ornamental gardening.
They love sun that’s why it’s branching out towards the full sun
Sun
Too close to the wall, reaching for more light
You need to move it. It’s not getting enough sunlight.
It’s leaning towards sunlight. You need to move to an area with sunlight.
Get it out of the shade it's attracted to the sunlight
Move it to where it gets Full Sun.
Dig it up and move it 5-10ft away from the house.
(i looked this up because i thought about doing that for more light in my room before, so DONT: install a mirror - "The sun's rays are very powerful and can focus through a mirror to create a hot spot that can ignite flammable materials. The hotter the day, the more likely it is that a mirror will focus the sun's rays and cause a fire. Mirrors are most likely to cause fires when they are placed in direct sunlight" ) i guess you'd need to forcefully cramp into the corner with some type of fence, or many sticks and gums, but probably your plant is happy the way it is growing right now! so in my opinion, being a gardener means that you almost want it to look like that, you want your garden to be so natural and wild that it is actually good for the nature in your area and bringing you a sense of being in nature - therefore i love that you didn't mow down the lawn (i'm not kidding), this way it is more heat- and dry period-resistant, important insects find refuge in it, .. you could also think about expanding the area you grow berries etc in, so that you can move blueberries to the front, i imagine that that would look quite good! <3 then the shaddowy area could be other plants (maybe certain bushes or even a small tree)
sticks and wires will let you make it do curly cues if you want
The way of the bonsai
Heavy pruning before foliage starts in early spring.
prune that part off.
Cut half your house down.
Ask it nicely
You planted it next to a wall with little light source. Either move it or allow it to go sideways
Move the sun
The plant is reaching for the sun. Move your bushes into a spot where they receive at least six hours of direct sun on an average day.
It’s reaching for the light
When plants do this and you don't want to move them, you simply prune off the leaning growth. Very common in anything planted in shade that wants more sun.
Straight up, I'd cut the whole bush down except the brach in the light and train it up into a head level treebush, then use the bed for acid loving shade plants.
Big mirror!!
Its chasing the sun lights because it needs food from the light.
You don’t seem to be getting enough sun there. Which means your blueberry bush will never do well there. Blueberry bushes need full sun to thrive.
A light source from above
This made me chuckle. The plant is reaching for the Sun in the picture, and asking why the plant is not growing in the shadow.
It is too close to the house. Extend your bed to 5 feet out and replant three feet away from the foundation.
Can’t control the sun
Look at how the light is falling on it.
Train it. Plants need to be train, branches need to be trained. If not the sun does it for you. Specially if you plant a Full Sun plant like blueberries in shade or partial shade
Bamboo or plastic stakes.
All off these answers are wrong… The blueberry bush noticed how long your grass is and decided to start growing out over to cast a shadow and make the grass grow slower. Literally just mow the lawn and it will straighten back up.
It moves there in search of sun
Phototropism at work.
Install a mirror
Move the sun to other side of the house
Grow lights outside 😁 pretty dumb but that's your only way . Track the light before planting , I learned the hard way .
Have you tried berating it until it submits?
It's trying to follow the sunlight haha so it needs to be planted in better lighting
Honey, it’s reaching for the sun 🌞 Maybe relocate to a sunnier spot?
I personally would move it since they like full sun with just partial shade I would trim the long branch so the bush looks uniform
Lol…….. move it into full sun
It's trying to get to the sun. Notice where the shade and sun is? Blueberries need full sun.
Move the house, its blocking the sun.
It’s just chasing the light, you have it in the shadow
Top it. When you top it you will want to take the main shoot & find the portion that splits in 2. Like a "Y" this will make the "Y" your top & all the lower branches will try & keep up with that top you made. (: If you cut it all the way down to its nub. (The top shoot down to the nub) the plant will struggle to keep itself up & the outer foliage will droop outwardly & inwardly.. This can make your shrubs appear naked in areas. Don't cut it down too far it's not a rose *lolz* [Note: pasted from Google] The names or these groups are derived from the number of cotyledons or seed leaves that the embryonic seedling has within its seed. A monocot, which an abbreviation for monocotyledon, will have only one cotyledon and a dicot, or dicotyledon, will have two cotyledons. Find a good soil supplier & see about a tea to feed with. When you prune. It's good to tea feed few days before you prune & a day or 2 after wards. It will help keep the plant is homeostasis during stress. Plants maintain homeostasis by regulating their temperature, water and salt (usable carbon) balance and the amount of sunlight they get. Sodium (Na) is required by plants in only very very small quantities, or not at all. It is never deficient. In fact, it is toxic to plants, and they will sequester it in their membranes. This maybe tastes great to animals, which require sodium and chloride in quantity.
It’s growing toward the sun. So either tie it to promote vertical growth or move your house.. or the plant. 🫶🏻
https://preview.redd.it/fet7hy0rj3uc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ae6668fb52589cfd0e59e31f4c0f4074978346f
After you cut it. Get tomato trellis (steel ring with stakes & put it in the middle) You may want to use some twine to hold the plant together while you put this in place. You don't have to be directly in the center. Don't worry about poking the roots. They will be fine. The bark chips are what is making the leaves turn yellow. 🤙🏼
Plant it in full sun
You need to mount a grow light on that window.
Plant them in the sun
It's looking for the sun
Sun. How much does it get in that little nook?
Sun.
The long branch is getting the sun for your shaded plant. Blueberries love sun
Mirrors 👐
Ericaceous soil is a good thing to dig in around the bush
Mirror
Tie it to a stake.
Don’t they like growing sideways mostly? I mean, the wild blueberry bushes do.
Ask the sun to move?
It wants 🌞🌞☀️🌞🌞☀️🌞🌞
What does your gut tell you?
Therapy? 😏
Replant it in the sun. Seriously.
Install a growing lamp above it. /s
Move the bush to full sun and plant shade plants there.
Encouragement.
It is growing toward the light. Move it.
Move the sun, your house, or the blueberry bush.
Use voodoo to change phototropism 🤷♂️
I’m no good with blueberries (yet 😂) but I love that little fence! Did you happen to buy online?
Where did the strawberries go?
I think it wants the sun 😄
Move it in to the sun
They’re following the sun
It’s looking for sun
A wire or rope.
More direct sun. Location location location!
Step one: add more garden to the front. About the same width as the strip you have there now, but in front of where it is, along over to the driveway there. Step two: move blueberry bush into said new strip, and fill the rest of your new garden space with mulch and more plants as desired!
Your blueberry bush begging to photosynthesize. It does not get enough sunlight in this spot and is reaching out to a point where it is getting sun. If you want it bushier you need to prune it back
Hire Gru and his minions to move the sun for you
Move into sunlight. Too many hours of shade that close to a building
Move it into the sun.
Move to a sunnier spot
LMFAO it's clearly reaching for the sun. I feel this was a troll post. But if it wasn't, your photos alone show you what it wants. More sun. You say a large chunk of the day. Full sun means 8+ hours. And ideally they get more than the 8. So how many hours is it getting sun? Oh and the first and last hour of sunlight in a day doesn't fully count. It's very weak.
It's growing twords the sun. I don't think there's much you can do. 🤷♀️
Move the house? :) Or put up a large fence covered in tin foil to reflect the sun back into the shady spot. Or find a spot where it is happier. It's talking to you.
growing towards the sunlight - quite obvious
It's almost like its reaching for something... I wonder what it could be?
Move them to a sunny spot.
Move the sun closer to your house.
Move it into the sun.
Put it in full sun and it will return the favor with fullness and more berries.
It's growing towards the light, it's that simple. It's in a nook that's shaded. Put the blueberry bushes where they get more sunlight!
Is this the north side of your home?
It loves its photosynthesis!
Get creative with a mirror so it gets light
Sunlight
an strategic arrangement of mirrors
Put it in a sunnier location.
It’s due to the placement. It’s reaching for the light. You’ll always have this issue unless you moved it to a better area tbh 🤷🏾♀️ don’t imagine you can do anything about it.
More sun!!
It is growing into the sun. But you can prune it.
????? Why were all the top comments removed?
Either move the sun or move the plant.
Remove whatever is shading the plant.
It would like more sun, please. Just Move the house about 15’ to right.
Move the sun or demolish your house, it's the only way. In all seriousness though see how the sun is positioned in these photos, it's stretching and growing towards the light. You need to transplant it to a full sun environment or at least a place where it's getting adequate sun. I would assume it's currently on an east facing exposure and catching the south west abd westerly sun mostly?
Move the sun, or the house..stake it and tie it back. But its going to grow toward the light