Progating gooseberries

[southlondongardener]

Can I do this by putting a branch (still connected to the bush) in soil and waiting?

Also if the branch is vertical or horizontal any goods on how to do this?

[Flummery]

The easiest way is to be a totally untidy gardener like me! I finally sorted out the border with the gooseberry bush in and it had layered itself just as you describe. The lower branches had rooted, I chopped them off, stuck them in the very large pot that had contained the early potatoes at the beginning of the season. I have 3 lovely strong plants now, ready to plant out next year.

If I were doing it deliberately I'd bend a low branch and either put a brick on it or hold it down with a tent-peg type of thing.

Good luck with it - there's nothing like getting free plants.

[FB.]

Layering (causing a low branch to root into the ground) works for many plants - even some that can be difficult to propagate.
Gooseberries (and most of the other bush-type berries) also root easily from cuttings in mid-autumn.

[southlondongardener]

Layering (causing a low branch to root into the ground) works for many plants - even some that can be difficult to propagate.
Gooseberries (and most of the other bush-type berries) also root easily from cuttings in mid-autumn.

Suppose there are no low branches?

[Tam]

As FB says, gooseberries root so easily from cuttings. if your bush has no low branches (and congratulations if this is so) pop a few cuttings in now and you should find that they have rooted fairly well by early summer. I find that if you grow gooseberries on a reasonably long leg, in the form of a standard, it is less likely that you will get the dreaded American mildew affecting your plants.

[Two_Sheds]

Yes, just cut off a branch about 10 inches long, remove lower leaves and thorns, and stick it in the ground. Label it or you'll weed it out.

This works for Roses and Blackcurrants too.

[Flummery]

Suppose there are no low branches?

Cuttings? Or bend a long one down.

[Flummery]

I agree with Two Sheds - I have successfully done this with my Ben Sarek blackcurrant. The fruits are so huge that I wanted not just more blackcurrant bushes but more of THAT ONE. Now got 4 more.

[pigletwillie]

The bonus with layering is that you pot on an already rooted cutting and have a plant that can be planted out the following year.

[Newbie]

So can you propogate Blueberries in the same way then? I have a small compact Blueberry bush that has grown one long branch this season that is way longer that all the rest, could i grow a new plant from this?

(Sorry for hijacking the thread!)

[Two_Sheds]

So can you propogate Blueberries in the same way then?

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post298394

[kiwirach]

i'm doing this with a boysenberry i have......i have 2 ends planted in pots(the parent is still in a pot....hopefully for only another week!).

how long do you leave it before you separate the parent and child parent(if i can put it that way)?.

i plan on planting the parent this weekend....should i wait til after that, or does it not matter?.

also, i take it from whats already been said, i should leave the cuttings in their pots for a while longer.....how long?

thanks in advance.

[piskieinboots]

and if you do take cuttings from a branch - make sure you cut straight across at the bottom and at an angle at the top ...else you stand a jolly good chance of sticking the poor thing in on its head - although the thorns should help give this away!

[kiwirach]

i'm doing this with a boysenberry i have......i have 2 ends planted in pots(the parent is still in a pot....hopefully for only another week!).

how long do you leave it before you separate the parent and child parent(if i can put it that way)?.

i plan on planting the parent this weekend....should i wait til after that, or does it not matter?.

also, i take it from whats already been said, i should leave the cuttings in their pots for a while longer.....how long?

thanks in advance.

can i just bump this to see if anyone can answer my questions, rather than starting a new thread....thanks in advance.

[Two_Sheds]

how long do you leave it before you separate the parent and child ?

until the new plant is rooted. Tug it to find out. (gently)