Planted this and some other berry plants last week and noticed this today. The other blueberry plant has the same coloring on the leaves. Have looked up possible causes and got three different answers. What do you guys think it could be?
by 81Wheeler
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This is normal and Blueberry plants get very colorful. Some are deciduous.
It’s normal for blueberry leaves start out red then turn green as they age
Recent frost?
First step for troubleshooting blueberries is always the same. Check you soil pH. If the soil pH is acidic, great, the color change is probably normal reddening from new growth/temp changes.
If the pH is neutral or basic, you should work to correct that with elemental sulphur (skip stuff like peat, coffee grounds, and pine needles) because the plant can only uptake nutrients when its pH is acidic enough, so nutrient deficiency can also lead to color change,
This is what happens when blueberry plants turn into raspberry plants.
This might be normal depending on the variety. Do you know what variety is that? I grow about 15 varieties and some of them have pinkish/redish leaves.