do these damage the mustikka plants

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1. Its up to you how you use it

2. Well my grandmom has picked blueberries from her summer house for 50ish years with one of these and every year it seems that more blueberries grow compared to last year. So one anecdote for these pickers.

3. I’ve never heard of them doing damage to anything.

   You push it through the plant and pull gently upwards. Don’t do a whole bush at once, or it will clog.

4. Very slightly may tear off a leaf or two but damage is not major or something that the plant cant recover from in a year.

5. thanks for the replies everyone! guess i wont have to get eaten alive my mosquitoes sitting in one spot for half an hour picking by hand anymore

6. If you use it gently, only leaves a little bit.

   The plant will be fine.

7. I like to pick bilberries with my fingers because those berry catchers easily turn soft bilberries into berry puree and because plant leaves and raw berries also get torn in there among the catched bilberries. But this is just my own personal preference.

8. There’s a technique to it. Do not rip the whole plant with it, but rather that smaller fractions at a time. The most ripe berries will come off easily. I like to help with my left hand and try to get as little extra particles in there as possible.

   Some leaves always come off with it and you will probably need to clean the berries later on by picking off the leaves and small branches.

9. White-tail deers eat those bushes at my yard at summer almost to zero leaves and the next year they grow anew with new berries. So likely you won’t be able to cause significant damage.