but after battling diseases, the costs were growing faster than the fruit for carleen gunter and her family. so they called it quits and turned to blueberries. the only way to save the grove was to replant, and then you got 5 years before you have marketable qualities of fruit. i thought while greening is out there before they solve this problem, i can't plant orange trees, i have to plant something else. the bacterial disease called greening is wiping out acres of oranges in florida. production is down 18 percent this year alone. so growers are turning to more profitable fruits, making blue the new orange. it's successful because we've been able to get fruit a lot earlier than we would have with citrus. with greening getting worse, and several blueberry varieties hearty enough to flourish in florida's wet and hot climate, the berry business is booming in the sunshine state. crops