Vaccinium Macrocarpon

Vaccinium Macrocarpon Care

Vaccinium Macrocarpon

What is the plant

The American cranberry (V. macrocarpon) is the most commercially important species and is found wild in the greater part of the northeastern United States. It is robust with round, oblong, or pear-shaped berries that vary in colour from pink to very dark red or mottled red and white.

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Full Sun

Hardiness zone

3 - 7

Difficulty

Medium

Hibernation

Cold Period

How to Care for the Plant

Pruning
Cranberry can be pruned after harvest to stimulate the production of vigorous uprights that will produce more fruit.
Sunlight
Suitable for: light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils, prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Suitable pH: acid soils and can grow in very acid soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers moist or wet soil.
Soil
Prefers a very acid soil with a pH in the range of 4 to 4.5, plants soon become chlorotic when lime is present

Disease diagnosis

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Temperature
Cranberry plants need cold weather in order to trigger a dormant phase, approximately three months of temperatures in the 32 to 45 degree F.
Container
Potted cranberry plants do not usually have the room to produce these runners and new canes, so cranberries in pots will need to be replanted every few years.
Additional
Description. Vaccinium macrocarpon is a perennial shrub, often ascending (trailing along the surface of the ground for some distance but then curving upwards). It produces white or pink flowers followed by sour-tasting red or pink berries 9–14 mm (0.35–0.55 in) across.