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Thank you,its very fine answer. I am only
sending to you pictures /very old one/ of my sorts of actinidia
kolomikta=content of vitamin C is 1520mg%, and late sort of lonicera. /dont fall
when ripen, hangs a month and can be picked whenever, but the leaves are
strangely curling./
Jan Kola, Jasminova1616, 70800 Ostrava, Czech
Rep. I like to have all the time good fruit to pick.When
I was starting far ago, then was not plants so I made it from seeds and some are
top good.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:48
PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Pruning a Currant
bush
Hello John
The advice is as practised here in the UK, so
seasonal allowances may be necessary.
Blackcurrants fruit on the previous years wood
(though they do fruit on older wood for a few years then decline) so the
system of pruning is a renewal system. In the UK we prune in the autumn but I
guess this could be delayed and done before the plants come into bud in the
spring. The method involves removing one third of the older wood down to the
ground. In removing the old wood, you inevitablly remove new wood, but it is a
question of balance. If the amount of new wood on a branch exceeds the old
wood, the leave it be. Conversely if new growth is weak, then remove it so
long as you do not remove more than one third of the bush. In terms of shape.
You want to be looking for an open centred bush. Commercially, one of
the practices they employ is to plant three rows and cut them down in
alternate years. Reduces the labour input which makes up for the loss in
yield.
Redcurrant bushes are pruned in a similar
manner to gooseberry bushes. The aim is for the red currant or gooseberry to
be on a central leg, which has 4 -6 inches of clear stem. Why to aid air
movement around the bush. (At RHS Garden Harlow Carr there where 4 examples of
redcurrant bushes grown as stool bushes and they fruited fine just a
question of air movement around and through the whole bush). Again you are
looking for a goblet shape as the finished article. The new seasons growth is
pruned by half to an inward facing bud (as they tend to have a weeping habit,
trying to keep them upright). The usual applies - dead diseased crossing
branches are removed.
A couple of web links...
http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0600/cane_bush.asp
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/todo_now/archive/nov/fruit_gard_now.php
Regards
Clifford
Cain
Bawtry, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK
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