Redcurrants from seed?

[piskieinboots]

Has anyone had a go and a success at this?

[solway cropper]

Currants are easy enough to grow from cuttings, why bother with seeds ?

[piskieinboots]

... why bother with seeds ?

cos a nice chap at the lottie gave me a bunch to eat and I thought 'hum, I wonder' - so I saved a couple and took the seeds out.

In true gardener styleee I shall just have a go

[Flummery]

Let me know how you get on! I bought a redcurrant bush at the weekend. It's all that I find lacking on my new plot and no-one on our site grows them (or I'd cadge a cutting.) I've still got room for another!

[ginger ninger]

I have some self set seedlings and they seem to be doing really well P.B.
If I can get them to some sort of size your welcome to one Flummery?
This is mummy.

[wollyanna]

We have quite a few large bushes on the new allotment we have taken over and they badly need prunung.If you'd like some cuttings you are more than welcome. They look to be very good ones. they take very easily from cuttings because before we had these I took some cuttings from bushes that sprouted at the side of our drive presumably 'planted as seds by the birds' and they were very easy. let me know Flummery and I'll get some to you.

[rustylady]

cos a nice chap at the lottie gave me a bunch to eat and I thought 'hum, I wonder' - so I saved a couple and took the seeds out.

In true gardener styleee I shall just have a go

OK, give it a go, but if you want the genuine article then ask the nice chap to give you a cutting.

[Flummery]

I have some self set seedlings and they seem to be doing really well P.B.
If I can get them to some sort of size your welcome to one Flummery?
This is mummy.

Oooh ta, that'd be nice.

[Flummery]

We have quite a few large bushes on the new allotment we have taken over and they badly need prunung.If you'd like some cuttings you are more than welcome. They look to be very good ones. they take very easily from cuttings because before we had these I took some cuttings from bushes that sprouted at the side of our drive presumably 'planted as seds by the birds' and they were very easy. let me know Flummery and I'll get some to you.

Thanks, address pm on the way (belt and braces, just been offered seedling too!)

[Snadger]

Wonders.................do redcurrants come true with seed?

Grown raspberries from seed though! Tullameen I think! They take a long time and seed needs stratifying........could be the same with redcurrants?

In the immortal words of the song "there are more questions than answers" Give it a go ..........you might even develope a new 'Pisky' strain!

[piskieinboots]

Wonders.................do redcurrants come true with seed?

there are two possibilites to that one Snadger - they will or they won't, but redcurrants they will be

..........you might even develope a new 'Pisky' strain!

ok so maybe there's a third possibility

[kentvegplot]

They seem to grow easily enough when the birds 'plant' them, so I don't see why not. But yes, if you want a certain cultivar you almost certainly need to go down the cuttings route.

[swaine]

deff try from seed im about 4 yrs into currant seed experimenting, mainly from pinkcurrants, redcurrants 2 yrs behind, due to give first fruit nxt year, but also white currants and blackcurants and wild redcurrants and yellowcurrants, the pinkcurrant seedling fruited well this year each bush slightly different, growth shape and colour fruit some seedlings fruit pinkish like parents but some WHITE currants appared from same batch, which was semi expected due to pinkcurrants parentage of red x white ( no reds appeared) flavours varied all very nice,
i also suggest try most soft fruit from seed, i got hundreds of seedlings all give intresting results and whats more you can name them yourself,give it a go, you nothing to lose, stew

[Snadger]

deff try from seed im about 4 yrs into currant seed experimenting, mainly from pinkcurrants, redcurrants 2 yrs behind, due to give first fruit nxt year, but also white currants and blackcurants and wild redcurrants and yellowcurrants, the pinkcurrant seedling fruited well this year each bush slightly different, growth shape and colour fruit some seedlings fruit pinkish like parents but some WHITE currants appared from same batch, which was semi expected due to pinkcurrants parentage of red x white ( no reds appeared) flavours varied all very nice,
i also suggest try most soft fruit from seed, i got hundreds of seedlings all give intresting results and whats more you can name them yourself,give it a go, you nothing to lose, stew

I like the sound of pinkcurrants swaine! Never heard of yellowcurrants but if crossed with redcurrants could give orangecurrants...........now there's a novelty!