oh, i got it wrong.

it says that it can produce up to 4 pints of blueberries each day, and as much as 16,000 blueberries from one single plant!

"i am curious if this particular plants are really as good as they claim"

No. And this is true of almost every other plant advertised on TV and most of those advertised in magazines other than gardening magazines, and even some advertised in those.

Theres one born every min.

Here is a link that might be useful: Little Giant Blueberry Bushes

Hi
If you want bb the size of peas then go for it. I haven't tried them, but from my limited knowledge that's the size of them. Do some more research and don't put to much stock in the claims, remember they are trying to sell!! Just don't be too jaded or believe in everything, just be objective when you read what's in a catalog.
Jake

I googled this and found that they seem to be "BlueRay" variety. So, you can just buy BlueRay from any place of your choice and see if they give tons of huge fruit!

'Little Giant' is a hybrid between a rabbiteye and a wild blueberry (V. constablei) from the high elevation balds in North Carolina. Has nothing to do with the northern highbush variety 'Blueray'. The berries are small, but high in flavor. Mine has been slow to get going and has not produced enough to be worth growing so far.

I bought one 5 or so years ago. Bunnies ate it to the ground that winter. It tried coming back, but was wiped out the next winter. I tried to get it again the following year, but couldn't find a nursery willing to ship to Mi (for less than $40 a plant).

Did TyTy start marketing plants on television??

~Chills

I have one plant of Little Giant, best tasting of maybe 20 varities that I have, berries are small, pea size, 3-4 ft. tall, narrow, upright, 5-6 years old. Slow grower in my soil in Tn. mountains. Does not look real healthy when compared to the rabbiteyes that I have. Looks more like some of the Northern Highbush that have either died or struggle a lot.

The Little Giant in that ad is not the same as the one sold in most nurseries -- the ones in the ad are big-berried and the nursery one is small-berried. I have had three of the nursery (little) little giants and all three have died, they have all been small wimpy plants that didn't make it. I think the variety has been too popular and they are selling only small plants for big $$ and also it seems to be slower growing.

Scott

I love the part about the big Little Giants growing to 8' in 90 days.

My experience with the little Little Giants is exactly the same as the last 4 posters. I ordered 5 as part of a Hartmann's wholesale order and those in the ground have either died of disease or grown very weakly. I don't think they can take one or more of the heat, humidity, disease, or somewhat heavy soil (heavily peat amended loamy red clay), relative to the other 30 or so varieties I have growing. The only one that has done well is babied in a large pot in about 1/4 shade, which makes me think that LG is either very picky about soils or can't take the full Southern summer heat, even with heavy mulch (or that it was mislabeled).

The only thing is, they're shipped bare root so you have to be careful planting them. Otherwise I've heard they do well.

Here is a link that might be useful: Little Giant Blueberry Plants