cgfreeandeasy makes the erroneous assumption that I ’m not think through my tree - cutting over the blueberries discovered at the edge of our homestead :
“ Why do you belief that tempestuous blueberries ( plants ) need ( more ) sunshine ? Most blueberry growing right on in the Wood , where not much sunshine is amount down on the ground under the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . That s their niche , where they can survive and grow best . They involve sun , but not to much . They also demand enough moister to farm continiously in their narrow-minded grow - season . And if you edit all the Tree of , you also make that micro - climate of never-ending moister bad / dry . And for the most plants there is that problem : If the climate for them is to dry , they only would grow as foresightful moister is available and then not anymore . So sometimes , they only uprise in the other ours of the Clarence Day ( after sun stand up ) and then stop every growth the hole rest of the 24-hour interval . Because its to dry . Don´t be stupid and sheer all that trees of….only , because there is that ideology , that plants necessitate sun … . more as all other conditions . Befor doing something you should observate the real conditions over several years for that field in your region . With the focus on dry sommers . If the plants develop bad in hot summertime , you shouldn´t cut of any tree . But maybe cut oif some trees to arange some areas to a good condition for the Berry . If that mostly be crimson oaks ( american spike - oak tree ) , then they have not a big and wide of the mark treetop , they are rather slim and belittled leaves . That s an reward for the blueberies . Because there is plenty of light , that can go trough the trees down to the earth . But if the Lord’s Day goes over the sky that happends only short times per country , so that the sunlight can not dry out out the biotope . the ideology , that plants demand sun , is not haywire . But even more they ask constant wet to grow . And light is mostly not the main job , but ( to less ) moisture is . I´ve fancy this : https://www.lsuagcenter.com / article / page1564414086990And there is explained , that this Blueberries need drained soil and much sun . But … . of trend they do not require dryness . That is , why there also this is explained : “ insure proper moisture”….at best the hole Clarence Shepard Day Jr. over . Not only in other sunrise - ours , when there is enough air - wet and dew . you could not cover insufficiency of wet . changeless wet gain the plants more fertile , as more sunlight , but most of the 24-hour interval dry conditions . And if that web site is correct ( suagcenter.com ) , then you have an interesting symbiosis between oak tree and blueberry , because if blueberry postulate a pH scale - condition from 4,2 to 5,5 , that oak - frondage is the paint to such low ph - parameter . As far as i know , oak and beech - frondage make the soil acidic . That what you show us in that video recording , i not only a abondoned bluebery - field , it seems to be more a symbiotic biotope of at least two plants ( oak and Blueberrie ) , and it seems to be good adjust on the regional clime . One indicies is , that this area is grown without farming - strategys , as it seems . And nevertheless the blueberries are grown great and in apparently good condition . Do not overjump the literal term and think , that abstract ideologys ( sunlight over all other conditions ) are upright for every condition in nature….and make the conditions worse , as they actualy are . ”
Here ’s the original input , on my video recording about opening up the canopy over wild blueberry bush bushes via coppicing and pollarding the woods :
And here ’s the video :
cgfreeandeasy is making the fault of underestimating my depth psychology of the situation .
He assume foolishness and that I am simply using a blanket “ plants take sunlight ! ” approach .
First of all , my IQ is significantly higher than the general universe , despite my folksy coming to YouTube . If I ’m doing something that you could not understand , arrogate I have not believe it through is a fault .
And of trend there is no blanket approach for plant life polish . Different specie require different care .
In the example of these blueberry bush in the woods , cutting the overstory trees to allow in more lighter was based on two things .
FIRST: direct observation of wild blueberries in our region
I pass a lot of sentence track down blueberries around the property we charter before buy our current homestead .
There , I noted that blueberries entirely beneath the canopy bore little to no fruit , whereas shrubs at the boundary of the Wood , along pathways , fields , etc . , were replete with yield .
A dispute of just ten or twenty pes of depth into the Wood made a drastic reducing in berry output . Yes , blueberries would fruit at the edge of the woods , with some shade , but in full tone , their output declined precipitously – sometimes to zero .
These were the same specie of baseless rabbiteye blueberry , growing in a interchangeable plant residential area .
Also , I noticed on our land that the blueberries were not generative in the woodwind instrument under thick tint .
SECOND: Randall White’s story from childhood
In the video , I deal an anecdote that Randall White share from his puerility , that after the local woods were logged , the production of blueberry bushes that had been under the canopy rocket the next production , giving them a nifty wild harvest time . This is a data point level . Far from found my selective cutting of the woods on some nonsensical estimation that “ sunlight over all other conditions”is the Francis Scott Key , I based my pruning on the noesis that sunlight under these circumstance was very likely to ameliorate yields , both from my direct observance and from those of a acquaintance who grew up in the same county , with the same blueberry and oak tree specie .
And don’t forget SUCCESSION!
One final bank bill on the blueberry bush : ecosystem evolve to their climax state through a process shout “ succession , ” where certain species colonize and thrive for a time , only to be supercede by others later in the system ’s development . It may be quite possible that these blueberries are an former coloniser ( which is what I believe ) , and are now being supplanted by trees that have overgrown their original domain .
Without disturbance , these earlier colonizers may finish up completely displaced , except along the bound – which , I note from reflection of the area – are more thickly populated with densely branched blueberry bush bush .
Without a fire or some sort of clarification , they are probable in decline . My selective opening of a fortune of the canopy should put them back into the game .
Conclusion
My informed decision to raise the sunlight level on this patch of wild blueberries will be proven right or wrong by their behavior in the coming year or two . If they make more yield , my conjecture was right . If they do n’t , I was wrong .
Yet even if I ’m wrong , it was n’t through some unintelligent coating of some prescript someone else made up that I got stick in my head .
We ’ll expect and see what happens .
