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The Worldwide Foundation of Southern Highbush Blueberry Varieties

The Next Generation of Southern Highbush Blueberry Varieties

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A vigorous, high-yielding variety. Fruit is large and firm with good color, flavor, and scar. Begins ripening a few days after Star. Easy to pollinate.

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Avanti™ FL06-203

A new variety which is noted for its very low chill requirement, very early fruit maturation, and adaptation to production regions in central and south-central Florida.

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Chickadee™ FL04-235

A vigorous plant which has a good survival rate. It has a desirable upright growth habit, with a narrow base that makes it nearly monopodial

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Endura™ FL06-377

A mid-to-late maturing variety best adapted to production regions similar to central Florida. Plants perform well under both evergreen and hydrogen cyanamide management systems.

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Farthing

Vigorous and survives well in commercial fields. It is a vigorous but not a tall-growing plant. It has the somewhat squat bush structure of ‘Windsor’, but with more branchiness

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Indigocrisp™ FL98-325

Indigocrisp™ ‘FL98-325’ produces berries with very firm, crisp-textured skin, and a very high sugar-to-acid ratio

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Kestrel™ FL02-40

A southern highbush blueberry variety developed at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences blueberry breeding program

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Millennia

A low-chill cultivar that produced large, early-ripening fruit, firm, light blue color, with good picking scar, and a mild pleasant flavor

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Primadonna

It produces large, high-quality berries on a vigorous, upright bush. In Florida, ‘Primadonna’ requires careful pruning to induce spring leafing

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Santa Fe

A vigorous, upright bush. Berries are medium size, with excellent flavor and shipping qualities. ‘Santa Fe’ has the potential for mechanical harvest.

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Scintilla

Has a vigorous and semi-upright in growth habit. Its survival under field conditions is medium to good

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Snowchaser

Ripens up to 20 days earlier than ‘Star’, but flowers very early and requires frost protection.

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Springhigh

‘Springhigh’ is a very vigorous, upright bush with excellent survival in the field. Berries are very large and medium dark, with good scar and flavor.

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Sweetcrisp

Is a highly vigorous bush with excellent field survival. Its berries are unusually firm, crisp, and swee

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Albus

Vigorous, high-yielding, early through late season cultivar for the evergreen production system, with no known disease issues.

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Bluecrisp

A large, sweet berry with crisp-textured fruit. Berries are large, medium-dark, with excellent shipping qualities

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Colossus

An early season cultivar that produces jumbo fruit developed for hand and machine harvesting.

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FL 19-006

‘FL 19-006’ is a vigorous, high-yielding, early season cultivar for the evergreen production system, with no known disease issues. The fruit is jumbo sized, very sweet and firm, with a high bloom and a long postharvest life.

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Flicker FL96-43

They are upright, highly vigorous, and have shown excellent potential for evergreen production

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Jewel

Very popular in central Florida for planting with ‘Emerald’. Produces a high yield of large, round berries that have good packing and shipping qualities

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Magnus

Early production of large fruit for hand harvest for fresh fruit market. Not firm enough for machine using 2016 machine technology. Expecting at least 8 years of high yield. Earlier than Star and Emerald.

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Optimus

Early production of firm machine harvest fruit. High fruit quality. Medium size. High vigor.

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Raven

Raven™ ‘FL05-627’ has high pollen abundance and a desirable growth habit (resembling ‘Star’)

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Sapphire

Low-chill, produces an upright bush, and produces many new leaves in areas of central and north Florida. Produces large, firm fruits

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Sebring

Produces vigorous upright bush with medium to good survival in the field.

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Southern Belle

Has a very large, firm berry with excellent packing and shipping qualities

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Springwide

Very low-chilling requirement of about 200 hours below 7 degrees C. It produces a large berry with medium-blue color, good scar, firmness, and flavor

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Arcadia™ FL07-399

A new mid-season variety best adapted to production regions similar to central and south-central Florida.

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Bobolink FL03-291

A highly vigorous plant with excellent survival, and a strong upright growth habit

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Emerald

A vigorous, high-yielding plant. Along with ‘Jewel’, it is one of the main varieties being planted in central Florida for early harvest. Berries are large and have good shipping qualities

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Falcon FL 17-141

‘FL 17-141’ is a vigorous, very high-yielding, early season cultivar for the evergreen production system, with no known disease issues. Very high yields in south Florida under the evergreen system.

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Florida Rose

A highly photogenic, rabbit-eye variety with fruit that are bright pink to red. Its fruit are large with good firmness, scar, and flavor

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Keecrisp™ FL06-556

A low chill, mid-to-late-maturing variety best adapted to production regions in north central Florida and south Georgia

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Meadowlark™ FL01-173

Meadowlark™ ‘FL01-173’ is one of the newest releases from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences blueberry breeding program

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Patrecia

An early maturing variety which may be a valuable alternative to many growers in Florida and south Georgia

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San Joaquin

FLX-1’ is a southern highbush blueberry clone distinguished by its low chilling requirement, its vigorous, upright bush and by its very firm, sweet berries

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Savory

An early-ripening rabbiteye variety. It ripens about a week before ‘Climax’, with large, light-blue berries and excellent firmness, scar, and color.

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Sentinel

Sentinel is a vigorous early season, high-yielding cultivar, with no known disease issues.

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Southmoon

Low-chill variety with an upright bush with the ability to flower and leaf vigorously in an area where the mean temperature of the coldest month is 58 degrees F

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Star

Flowers late and ripens early. The bush is strong, upright, survives well, and is easy to prune

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