Plants are late ripening, productive, and vigorous with erect growth. They ripen in a relatively short period of time, about seven days after Coville. Elliot fruits are firm, light blue, and medium sized with a good mild flavor. The plants are productive and moderately resistant to mummyberry. Elliot ripens about seven to ten days after Lateblue.
Cultivars differ greatly in their susceptibility to winter injury.
Even when low winter temperatures kill the tops of plants, the crown and roots are usually protected by the snow cover and they put out new shoots that frequently bear fruit the following year. An early fall frost sometimes kills back late-growing shoots from the tip, but in most cases this injury can be pruned away. A late spring frost, on the other hand, can injure partly opened flowers, causing a partial to total crop loss on some early-flowering cultivars. These early cultivars are not recommended for areas that typically receive late spring frosts. If the pH of your soil is greater than 5.0 but less than 7.0, you can increase the acidity with applications of sulfur or acid peat.