Is this due to rich soil and hot temperatures?

[RizlaMan]

Have a Blueberry and a Neville's Haze (both from MSNL) growing outdoors at 33N. Blueberry is 6+ft/2 meters, perhaps slightly more tall and the Neville's Haze is 4-5 ft/1.3-1.5 M or so tall.

Both plants are showing this deviation, primarily at their tops. It appears to dissipate the farther from the top of a branch one looks.

They're growing in a hole that was made in May by breaking up an old stump hole, adding 5-10 gallons /20-40 L of potting soil, 5-10 gallons /20-40 L of peat moss and 5-10 gallons /20-40 L of composted chicken manure pellets, then mixing it all together. The top of the soil is covered with mulch made of dead grass collected from adjacent to the hole. It was late to make a hole but when I found the spot I couldn't resist.

Weather wise, it has been over 95F/36C since mid/late May, minus a few days here and there when it was in the high 80sF/ low 30s C. The last significant rain was about a month ago.

The plants were transplanted in mid/late may as seedlings with a few sets of true leaves. The Blueberry has been dominate to Neville's Haze in this spot.

Flowering started sometime after 20 July at 14 hours of daylight.

I don't water or fertilize them as to not make trails and they are only 10-20/9-19 M yards from a spring. In May when making the hole the water was struck at 2-3/0.6-1 M feet below ground.

Any thoughts on the cause of this odd leaf appearance and if/how it will affect the final harvest?

Thanks in advance!

 

[f-e]

Any crop spraying locally?

 

[RizlaMan]

Any crop spraying locally?

No.

No other plants nearby have this problem.

 

[Great outdoors]

I think you nailed it. Chicken poop is hot, combined with hot weather and no water, equals heat stress.

 

[RizlaMan]

I think you nailed it. Chicken poop is hot, combined with hot weather and no water, equals heat stress.

Thank you!

 

[abuldur]

And maybe check for mites….

 

[Creeperpark]

Chemistry law = Water always follow salt, and if you have more salt in the substrate, than in the plant, the water will leave the plant.. You need to wash the salt out of the soil enough to rehydrate the plant. Its not too late, you can still save her.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

A mild solvent flowd through it lol

 

[RizlaMan]

An update on the feminized Blueberry and feminized Neville's Haze at 33N.

Either there's a lot of industrial hemp upwind or one or both of them exhibited hermaphroditic morphology from the stress. When checked two days ago they did have bud nicely frosted buds. They were also heavily seeded. Both plants were immediately killed. After trimming, the seeded flowers filled a large paper sack 3 or 4 inches deep. It is still drying so no weight at this time. Perhaps next year the soil will have had time to mellow out and avoid this. This year was still worth the effort.