My new blueberry plants are growing like weeds. I'm going to try to post a picture soon. But little plants that were purchased as 8 inch bare twigs in March are now big enough to either pinch back the new shoots or train and pinch. Some new shoots from the base are 16-20 inches tall and growing one inch per day.

My mature Star plant sent up some strong shoots from the base last year after taking out old wood. I finnally topped these shoots at about 30 inches. Now those shoots have 2-5 branches on top but are completely bare below 30 inches. I don't want 30 inches of bare wood on my new plants next year. So I'm thinking: pinch out the tip at about 12 inches and let them grow as they will from there, pinching again as needed, or train the branches over horizontal and still pinch the tips as needed.

I had a new Primadonna last year. A couple vigorous shoots flooped over horizontal and put up 6-8 vertical shoots that now look like great fruiting wood for next year. This Primadonna is 3 ft tall and 3ft wide one year after starting as a twig.

Has anyone else ever trained blueberry as apposed to just tipping or pruning?