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How To Prune Black Currant
Aug 18 2008
Our new black currant was picked up from the nursery and planted this year. It produced a small amount of fruit which have all been eaten by now, so I thought I would do some pruning to get more fruit next year. It turns out that black currant bushes produces the most fruit on 2 and 3 year old wood and this is only 1 year old. Pruning is done in December so I’ll have to wait. I’m supposed to keep 2 stems from each growing season and cut stems at ground level when they are older than 4 years. This picture shows what a bush should consist of, where a darker color means older wood. (A part of me wants to present this as a drawing done by our 1 year old daughter, but yes, I did it, okay?
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I know this is simplified but the goal is to cut stems that are older than 4 years in order to keep the bush young and producing the most fruit.
I don’t know why this pruning thing is so hard on my brain, so advice is always welcome.
Do you have experience pruning black currant?
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2 Responses to “How To Prune Black Currant”
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Thank you for the clearly detailed explanation on pruning our black currants. Looks as though next December is time for the first pruning.
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Thomas W. said on August 4th, 2009 at 8:47 am
@Rose Marie: Glad to help – I hope you’ll get a lot of nice berries!
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