Blackcurant cuttings?

[Snadger]

Gunna take some blackcurrant cuttings this weekend off a particularily fruitful bush! A spade stuck into the soil and levered back and forth, hardwood cuttings placed into trench and filled with sand before healling in.
Any better ways?

[Jardiniere]

i just cut bits off and put them into pots of peat - most took.....many unfortunately didnt make it though this very dry summer after they had been planted out onto new fruit patch down on the river......

[Tam]

They should do just as you have described. Blackcurrants should always be deep-planted, so that they make plenty of new stems each year. Once they have rooted well, I always make sure their final planting is really deep.

[Two_Sheds]

I cut off a piece about 12" long, and bury two-thirds of it in a trench (my soil is pretty sandy anyway) water in well, and they all take.

[jackie j]

When I took on my plot the neighbouring one had just pruned his bushes, another neighbour asked me if I wanted some, he said you do this that this, he saw my bemused look and did it for me, just plonk them in the ground he said, two years later I have 7 bushes all fruited well this year.

[Lovage]

As previously mentioned, blackcurrants root pretty easily and as you have to prune out about a third each year there should be no shortage of material for cuttings.

I would add though that rather than take cuttings from your own bush and have more plants all the same, it might be interesting to cadge or swap cuttings of named varieties and compare results. Some varieties are much earlier than others, some make larger bushes, some are sweeter etc etc

[Snadger]

As previously mentioned, blackcurrants root pretty easily and as you have to prune out about a third each year there should be no shortage of material for cuttings.

I would add though that rather than take cuttings from your own bush and have more plants all the same, it might be interesting to cadge or swap cuttings of named varieties and compare results. Some varieties are much earlier than others, some make larger bushes, some are sweeter etc etc

I already have four named varieties of blackcurrant fruiting in succession. Ben Connan is my favourite, tasty, large berries,crops early and heavily and has very little leaf growth. This is the only plant of my four varieties that I will be taking cuttings from.

[pebble]

I inherited a couple of really old bushes ... and cuttings were successful by layering a few branches - pin them to the ground and cover where they are pinned with a bit of earth -within a couple of months there are sufficient roots to cut away the branch from the bush and pot up. Six branches layered like this have had 100% success.

"chuffed" of Sunbury

[suzie spud]

I assume red and white currants can be propogated the same way or is there a different method?

[pebble]

Just the same for red or white !!