How are your craberry plants doing ?

hello all , Im just wondering how people's cranberry plants are doing assuming you are growing one or two (outdoors in the UK )

 

i guess a lack of response is a signal about growing this in the UK

 

I have one plant of american cranberry. Keeping it in pot. It flowered nicely, but not that many berries left.

 

Not something I've ever grown.
I wouldn't know what to do with the berries if I did.
I thought I saw something on the TV a while back, but can't remember where they were growing.

 

My soil is not acidic enough and gets too dry to even think about it.
Chilean guava (Ugni molinae) does really well though.
@hi2u_uk How are yours doing?

 

Do you remember what particular species that one is and what have you planted them in ???
My cranberries have turned to crisp for the second year in a row. Im not sure if i should try again

 

Sounds like too much sun and insufficient water. If you try again maybe move them to a shady spot, especially when young and look at the watering regieme and container shape and size.

 

Personally I wouldn't bother.

 

It's such a tiny plant that I don't know why it needs so much water after the tiniest hint of sunshine.

 

When you say tiny how big? They are dwarf shrubs so smallish but not tiny.
Also they grow in damp boggy places, so it's not just after sunshine they need water.
What species/variety have you been trying and how big were the plants you started with.

 

If I ever find a label, I write here. My plant is from the Range. I moved it in a pure peat plus peat based substrate mix. The clay pot is lined with plastic bag (from compost). I try to not let substrate dry.
It's now very long, over 1.5m plant. Ignore catnip, it grown there illegally. Difficult to show plant, as I let the garden go wild this season. Some twines dry off, others grow.
My hubby eats cranberries raw. I add them when roasting meats, duck. Cranberry mousse is a thing.

 

They also crop better if there's more than one plant.
Unless you intend using a lot of them, it's rarely worth growing, especially if space is in short supply, and the conditions aren't suitable anyway.
It depends on how much time you have to spare too, because plants of any kind in pots/containers always need more attention than in the ground.

 

I've got a couple and they look similar to the ones pictured above but perhaps a bit bigger. They are really straggly plants and not particularly attractive but they look healthy. I haven't noticed any fruit on them this year but I do have two varieties. The issue I have is that our soil isn't acidic and we don't get a lot of rain, so they are pot grown and a bit of a chore and only grown for novalty purposes (they were given as a present, I'm not really a fan of cranberries, it's about the only fruit I don't like).

 

Thanks for your reply, i was thinking of trying again using peat or peat moss as i have found some sources online. I've previously tried ericaceous compost but as i said earlier they went crispy . It did start spreading to about a metre before it went crispy and i wasnt too keen on this spilling over outside the pot idea but i was prepared to tolerate it if it fruited but instead they just dried up

 

what are you growing them in and what variety