Blueberry catkins?

[BayViewPlot]

I have 2x 2-year old blueberry plants in pots and 2 in the ground. The 2 in the pots have developed large, rapidly growing stems. The stems are thicker than the main blueberry stems and the leaves are slightly larger and lighter in colour. They have catkins rather than flowers.

Are these weird blueberry offshoots or an invading plant?

Gonna chop them unless I hear otherwise!

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[FB.]

I'm guessing that those are shoots coming from the ground?

Blueberries don't usually send up shoots from the ground; they usually branch from the main stems (in my experience).
Blueberries also don't have catkins that I know of.
They also have smoother-textured leaves.

Sounds like you have a cuckoo in the nest.

If they're free-growing stems, give them a tug to be certain that they're not part of the blueberry plant.

[purplekat]

Blueberries do send up a thick, fast growing shoot every so often from the main stem (I'll try and take a pic of mine if I remember) but I've never seen anything like that catkin on any of mine so don't know what's going on there!

[vegnut]

Looks like a willow catkin to me. I don't suppose you put any sticks in the soil to support any part of the blueberry or netting to keep the birds off your precious berries, just to find that it is willow whips ?

[BayViewPlot]

Thanks for the replies, the chop it is!

Don't know how they got there - simultaneously in two separate pots at the same time as well.

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