Use a free draining soil mix for the propagation bed. Most blueberry varieties are self-pollinating. Cross pollination with compatible varieties helps ensure good fruit set and berry size. Blueberry flowers are pollinated by bees. Beehives at the rate of two colonies per hectare will improve pollination.
Compatible varieties have the same chromosome number and the flowering time overlaps.
Most highbush and rabbiteye varieties can pollinate another varieties. Tetraploid hybrid varieties can only pollinate each other. Planting The usual spacing between plants is 1.3 m with 3 to 5 m between the rows depending on size of the harvesting machinery. Remove all the fruit buds from dormant plants before planting in late winter to early spring. Control perennial weeds before planting.