Sick Highbush Blueberry

[jebbgrows]

Hello,
One of my 5 bushes has a terrible problem. Black sores in open swollen cracks, mostly near where branches split, and running up the lenght of the two smaller limbs. Also very near the base of each shoot. Black broken open swollen trunks. Small and large size growths.
Additionally while foraging theough the nearby forest I saw another wild bush affected in the same way.
Here are the pictures I shot attached.
I have cut so much back already it is soo sad.
I am in the New England area, Western Massachusetts, in the Berkshires.
I have tried Copper Soap. reapply?
Oh I could use some advice and help...

[jebbgrows]

The black stuff is slippery

well it has been raining, and now that the sun is back out, I visited the blueberry in need, and the black stuff is expanded and slick. The pictures are maybe better, still hoping for some help.
Up on the stems and especially down near the ground.
I think I am going to go at it hard with the Copper Soap Fungicide, and see what happens.
It almost has to be a fungus right?

[roitelet]

Hi Jebb, welcome to the vine. I think that the reason that you have not had a response is that no one knows what it is. It does look like a fungus to me. Is the bush still alive? I would have thought that there should have been some signs of leaves on it by now. Scratch the stem and see if the wood is green, if not the bush is dead. Not a lot of help, sorry

[jebbgrows]

Yes it is alive!

Well it is really trying.
Lots of shoots and new growth, but these awful black sores.
The bush is up against a wall of trees, about 20' away and they are to the North of it, and slightly uphill, so it does get a lot of light blocked. Sorry the pictures are a bit blurry, it is kind of hard to see what is going on, but yes there are leaves and shoots growing.
I will cut more back and destroy the limbs.

[roitelet]

I would cut back any diseased wood douse with fungicide and see if it comes back from the base. As you are not in Europe it could be some fungus hat we don't get here.