Is this still alive

I don't want to wait that long to find out

 

It’s unlikely you’ll find out for sure any sooner. Even a healthy blueberry plant would be losing its leaves fairly soon as part of its natural cycle.

 

Bin it and start again.

 

To be honest one of my issues is that the leaves don't actually seem to be falling off

 

@hi2u_uk as @pete rightly said earlier:

When leaves fall off naturally the plant recycles the usable components of the leaf, then forms a corky (abcissal) layer between the leaf and the stem, once this layer is formed the leaf is dumped. If the stem is dead then the leaf cannot fall off naturally and so dead leaves often stay attached to the dead stem.

 

I certainly wouldn't have much hope of that recovering @hi2u_uk . If you still want one, it's better to start again.
The important thing, with any plant, is to make sure it has a suitable growing mix if it's potted. Then it needs to be in the right site, and have appropriate care, especially watering. The pot has to be the right size too.
If you do that, there's a good chance of success, but if one or more of those factors are missed, there's a strong chance of failure. Potted plants need far more attention than they do in the ground.

 

I'd hate to be a plant in your garden that's not giving 110%!

 

Actually I settle for making an effort, here it's not even trying as it's an ex plant.

 

The other thing im surprised at is i see lots of potted plants around the streets but none looked like this.
I'm leaning towards giving it a week or so and if it doesnt look better then i think i will order a new one thats good for pots. It just feels a bit sad to chuck i though

 

Maybe they water theirs.

 

That was my point @shiney . It's a totally different regime with anything in a pot.

You'd need to give it longer than a week @hi2u_uk . Gardening isn't instant, despite those makeover shows which suggest otherwise. If there's no improvement by later autumn [and you could even just leave it over winter] it's over, so you'd be able to get a new one at that point. Even supermarkets and DIY stores sell decent plants, so it needn't be expensive, but you'd get a good product from one of the many online suppliers of fruit trees and bushes in autumn/winter if you didn't want to wait until spring for a new one in s'markets and GCs etc.

 

There's a pattern developing here!
I, personally, would wait until spring...but I'd plant the pot up with some winter flowering pansies or the like so you're not staring at a brown stick through the colder months

 

I recalled you having a problem earlier in the summer with blueberries @hi2u_uk so I looked back at your posts. You were away for a week, and then had weeds in the pot, and also asked about weeds being more common in ericaceous compost.
The fact that you were away for a week might be the important point. If the plant had no water in that time, either manually or from the sky, it won't have helped, and any moisture might have been taken up by the weeds rather than your plant.

 

This is all very true but i spend all my time removing weeds. What i'm debating about is whether they are alive or not. I'm very very tempted to get rid of them and buy a new blueberry plant but haven't taken this decision yet. I don't want to get to spring and then realise there were not alive .