Vaccinium, Southern High Bush Blueberry 'Misty'

So far I only have this in a pot (3 gal.), but I just had to comment on how vigorous and beautiful of a plant it is. Even in this recent ...Read Moremonthlong 95º heatwave, it has looked stellar, with the darkest, lushest green foliage of any blueberry species / variety I've ever seen. (I have about 12 species & varieties of Vaccinium.) And it's tall, with an elegant upward growth habit without pruning. In fact, at the nursery, I first thought it was a pineapple guava or some sort of holly. The nursery's owner told me he got a huge crop of fruit from it this spring. Anyway, based on its pot performance, I think this is going to be my favorite overall blueberry bush. As for the berries, the birds get most of mine anyway, so I don't really grow them with hopes to enjoy the fruit, but this variety's fruits are allegedly quite delicious.
Update, late 2016: Mine died, because I had planted it sort of under a big Pindo palm, gambling that the palm would grow fast enough to give the blueberry tree enough light. My gamble failed and the blueberry basically died from too much shade. I still highly recommend this variety, though. Just give it better growing conditions than I gave mine.

I planted one Misty and one O'Neal in containers next to each other two years ago in a highly acidic soil mix. Starting in January, the M...Read Moreisty was covered with flowers and huge, sweet blueberries. The O'Neal is just budding out a month later. The hummingbirds that overwintered here in San Diego are visiting the flowers every day.

A 1989 Florida release,Misty has a chilling requirement of about 200 hours. Large blue berry on a moderately vigorous plant.This one tend...Read Mores to over fruit and requires pruning the fruiting branches to relieve stress on the plant. Like all southern high bush it is self infertile.