blueberry Variety
MegasBlue
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Mid-season, High Chill Blueberry Variety
Mid-season, High chill
Breeder: Oregon Blueberry Farms and Nursery, USA
MegasBlue is an extremely productive, high-chill blueberry variety designed to replace traditional options where yield, flavour and size improvements are needed. It performs well for both fresh market production and machine harvesting, with a concentrated ripening period that can help reduce harvest costs.
MegasBlue Key Features
Flavour
Very good taste - good sugar/acid balance
Yield
20–25 t/ha
Fruit Colour
Dark blue - consistently no red back at harvest
Fruit Size
17-19 mm
Firmness
Firm Fruit
Chilling
1000+ hours
Seasonality
Mid-season
Comparative Results
Compare key commercial characteristics across our blueberry genetics, including chill type, yield performance, fruit firmness, flavour profile, and market suitability. Use the dropdown below to select a trait and compare performance across our blueberry varieties.
Chill Requirement
MegasBlue
1000+ hours
Titanium
1000+ hours
Seasonality
MegasBlue
Mid-season
Titanium
Early Mid-season
Yield
MegasBlue
8 kg/plant
Titanium
7 kg/plant
Fruit Size
MegasBlue
17-19mm
Titanium
17-21mm
Fruit Colour
MegasBlue
Dark blue
Titanium
Light blue with excellent bloom
Firmness
MegasBlue
Firm
Titanium
Exeptionally firm
Flavour
MegasBlue
Very good taste; good sugar/acid balance
Titanium
Excellent flavour, great crunch
Shelf Life
MegasBlue
Good
Titanium
Excellent
Use
MegasBlue
Fresh market and machine harvest, suitable for fresh and processing
Titanium
Premium fresh market, also works well for processing, excellent shipping
Growth Habit
MegasBlue
Upright, strong
Titanium
Extremely upright, relatively compact/semi-compact
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