Got a self seeded gooseberry!

[Claire72]

I haven't planted gooseberries yet, although I am keen, but found a gooseberry plant growing in my hedge!! full of gooseberries too!
Thanks to whichever creature sowed that seed for me!

[Raskusdrotti]

Nice one!

I cleared my lottie to find a nice big blackcurrant and about a dozen little pink fir apple potato plants.

I'm gonna check again - I love gooseberries!

Neil

[Flummery]

Bet it's a blackbird! I get self seeders along the gravel path next to where my gooseberry bush grows. I usually just weed them out. Does anyone know if gooseberries come true from seed? I normally root cuttings (at least you get them where you want them!)

[southlondongardener]

Bet it's a blackbird! I get self seeders along the gravel path next to where my gooseberry bush grows. I usually just weed them out. Does anyone know if gooseberries come true from seed? I normally root cuttings (at least you get them where you want them!)

Normally not I would guess as varieties are only true from cuttings.
Of course if it is really nice it would be a new variety.

[Flummery]

'Course, you might have to trench your way through an awful lot of rubbish fruit to find out!

[swaine]

gooseberrys dont tend to come true from seed, i found some wild grown gooseberries that flower but dont fruit, so well done,
give it a name!
and take plenty of cuttings

[southlondongardener]

But only if the fruit are as nice as other types of gooseberry !!!

[Claire72]

gooseberrys dont tend to come true from seed, i found some wild grown gooseberries that flower but dont fruit, so well done,
give it a name!
and take plenty of cuttings

Oh help, how do I take cuttings???

[MaureenHall]

Yes, how do you take cuttings? I'm hoping to increase my single gooseberry, blueberry and blackcurrant bushes for next year

[swaine]

there not as easy as the currants to root,
its more of hit and hope with gooseberries,
european verieties are harder to propagate the american cultivers,
i take 10"-12" inch cuttings late in the year oct/nov and put them about 5" inches deep in a mix of potting compost and vermiculite, and see how they go, if they break bud early the following year thats good shows all is well, i usually leave them in the original pot till i see roots thru the bottom and then pot them on or into open ground, ive had a resonable amount of success doing this but as stated there a little more difficult than currants sometimes takes a good 2 years to produce reasonble sized rootball,
stewart

[Alexx]

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I posted.

I usually just pin lower branches down without actually cutting them off the mother plant. They root in about a year, when you can cut them off and replant, and they keep fruiting all this time.

This works with gooseberries and currants. In fact, I'm planning to make a gooseberry hedge out of all my new plants in autumn

[Claire72]

Well, I picked my first ripe gooseberry today, they are turning a lovely pink and it was delicious will try taking a cutting or training a bit down the way to encourage more gooseberries next year!

[lynda66]

i cut a bit off, stick it in some rooting powder stick it in the ground in some compost .......water it a couple of times, and if it lives it can stay, if it dies it was a crap cutting lol ........ but i've got 6 new fuchsias that way this year ..........mind you i've killed a few too lol