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Anadolu Tarım Bilimleri Dergisi, vol.40, no.2, pp.293-310, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Like other Vacciniums, blueberries love acidic soils for growing. But new and alternative soilless growing systems developed for new areas with ecological advantages. Blueberries have small bushy plants and they began to be grown in pot and raised-bed using special substrates. In the present study, yield and berry characteristics of five northern highbush blueberry cultivars (‘Bluecrop’, ‘Brigitta’, ‘Denise Blue’, ‘Patriot’, and ‘Blugold’) were studied under soilless culture. They planted in pot with acidic peat moss and raised beds under open-air conditions. Plant phenology, growth, development, yield, and berry quality characteristics of the cultivars were determined. Budburst begins at the end of the last week of February for both growing areas in all cultivars. Raised-bed growing cultivars bloomed earlier than pot-grown ones. Fruit coloring starts within the second week of June. Pot-grown blueberry cultivars were the best yielded than raised-bed ones and ‘Patriot’ had the highest yield (955.14 g/bush) while ‘Bluegold’ had the largest berries (17.45 mm). Raised-bed-grown cultivars gave higher %TSS and lower acidity than pot-grown ones.