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Red Currant Pruning

I have just harvested a super crop of Red Currants.  Do I now prune and if so how much?

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  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    Thank you waterbutts. I wasn't sure how to prune but your explanation is fab.

    I struggled to get my head around pruning currants until this year. My bushes are now into their 2nd or 3rd year. Red, white and black currants, also gooseberry. Apart from taking out the middle shoots for them all, decided not to prune last year because the harvest was so poor and thought it due to not pruning properly.  

    This year the new shoots on red, white and gooseberries were cut back to allow the sun to get to the fruit. Really pleased with the harvest and they've had their July prune.  

    I'm not sure what to do with black currants, they were pruned so they would fit into the netting frame. Advise to pruning them would be helpful.

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    Thanks for the advise,I'll leave them for now. The black currants are about ready to pickimage.

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    I'm hoping to pick mine before the birds see them, I removed the netting to pick the red and  white currants a few weeks ago, the black one's are huge.image

    The soils really dry at present under all my the currant bushes, was thinking of giving the area a good watering and mulching with mushroom compost, what do you advise. They got a good mulch of well rotted horse muck in October.

     

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