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    From T@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 20 19:21:44 2023
    Hi All,

    My "2 EUROPEAN BLUEBERRY BILBERRY" plants
    finally fruited after four years.

    The fruit is bitter and sour. I spit them out.

    And that is easy to do and they contain a round
    pit the size and hardness of buckshot (a small pea).

    Methinks I mistakenly planted an ornamental variety.
    I could not find descriptions of pits with a web
    search.

    Anyway it is being removed this year.

    Your thoughts as to a replacement? Zone 6B.

    Many thanks,
    -T

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  • From Alfred Falk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Sep 21 16:13:47 2023
    T <[email protected]d> wrote in news:ueg9bo$3ap5v$[email protected]:

    Hi All,

    My "2 EUROPEAN BLUEBERRY BILBERRY" plants
    finally fruited after four years.

    The fruit is bitter and sour. I spit them out.

    And that is easy to do and they contain a round
    pit the size and hardness of buckshot (a small pea).

    Methinks I mistakenly planted an ornamental variety.
    I could not find descriptions of pits with a web
    search.

    Anyway it is being removed this year.

    Your thoughts as to a replacement? Zone 6B.

    Many thanks,
    -T

    Common name are unreliable, but I don't think you have a bilberry at all. Vaccinium species have small seeds distriibuted in the fruit, not single
    pits.

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Alfred Falk on Thu Sep 21 11:23:28 2023
    On 9/21/23 09:13, Alfred Falk wrote:
    T <[email protected]d> wrote in news:ueg9bo$3ap5v$[email protected]:

    Hi All,

    My "2 EUROPEAN BLUEBERRY BILBERRY" plants
    finally fruited after four years.

    The fruit is bitter and sour. I spit them out.

    And that is easy to do and they contain a round
    pit the size and hardness of buckshot (a small pea).

    Methinks I mistakenly planted an ornamental variety.
    I could not find descriptions of pits with a web
    search.

    Anyway it is being removed this year.

    Your thoughts as to a replacement? Zone 6B.

    Many thanks,
    -T

    Common name are unreliable, but I don't think you have a bilberry at all. Vaccinium species have small seeds distriibuted in the fruit, not single pits.

    I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
    I noticed he is not in business. Four years
    down the dumper.

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 21 16:56:03 2023
    T wrote:
    ...
    I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
    I noticed he is not in business. Four years
    down the dumper.

    that sucks. :( some people are jerks.


    songbird

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  • From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to songbird on Mon Sep 25 13:36:30 2023
    On 2023-09-21, songbird wrote:
    T wrote:
    ...
    I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
    I noticed he is not in business. Four years
    down the dumper.

    that sucks. :( some people are jerks.

    Or it was an accidental swap without any malice on the seller's part.

    ... lot can happen in 4 years as well :/

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Dan Purgert on Mon Sep 25 13:08:56 2023
    On 9/25/23 06:36, Dan Purgert wrote:
    On 2023-09-21, songbird wrote:
    T wrote:
    ...
    I even made the seller give me the Latin name.
    I noticed he is not in business. Four years
    down the dumper.

    that sucks. :( some people are jerks.

    Or it was an accidental swap without any malice on the seller's part.

    ... lot can happen in 4 years as well :/


    The leaves exactly match every photo I have seen
    of them, including what ever caused the brown
    streaks. And the Latin name was the same. So,
    he may have been trickled as well. But he was
    selling the at a large discount over the other
    guys so ...

    I should have know better than to buy them
    from fleebay.

    I pulled both of them out. Might have been a
    mistake. I could have used the seeds/pits to
    reload shotgun shells.

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