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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

Odd--I seem to recall reading that clove currant was immune to WPBR.  I've
been nurturing a Ribes odoratum sucker I got from someone on this list and
it's ready to go into the ground next spring.  Since I have some white
pines, maybe someone can confirm their susceptibility to the rust.

loneroc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:06 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] want clove-currant plants?


> I sprouted some seeds of my clove-currant last year, and this year the
> plants grew big enough to show that they mostly have possibly even more
> severe white pine blister rust than their parent plant.  They are junk for
> me, but I thought I should offer them to the list before I compost them!
If
> you don't have any white pines around, these would be a decent landscape
> shrub.  Wonderful fragrance in early spring.
>
> I don't know if these are Ribes aureum or odoratum, but could try to
> determine.  Parent plant is about 6' tall, with branches tending to lean
> over even without fruit weight.  It suckers, and I think would form a
> thicket if not confined by mowing or driveways or etc.  It makes
worthwhile
> crops maybe once in 10 years; fruit is pleasant but I don't miss it in the
> off years.  The parent plant was a sucker from a long-neglected planting
by
> an old house foundation, early 1900s, so it is hardy for s.WI zone 4.
> Survives in dry sand but performs better in decent soil with extra water
off
> a shed roof.
>
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