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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rooting Red Currants
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:30:17 -0500

Black currants root easily.

---- Original Message ----
From: chandos49@hotmail.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rooting Red Currants
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:08:17 +0000

>
>Sam,
>I have a black currant with a likely stem for such a project. Do you
>think it might root as easily as the reds?
>Dave Liezen
>
>> From: sam.brungardt@state.mn.us
>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:54:27 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rooting Red Currants
>>
>> Ginda, I think cuttings should still root this spring even though
>the buds on the plant are beginning to break. Spade up a spot where
>the soil's friable, in full sun or partial shade. Take cuttings of
>last season's growth asap, trying to have at least 5 nodes. Snip the
>terminal bud off each cutting. Stick the cuttings in the area you've
>worked up, apical end up, with one or more buds sticking out of the
>ground. Water the cuttings in well. Water whenever the soil appears
>dry and pull any weeds that come up among the cuttings. The cuttings
>should be well rooted by late summer. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul,
>Minn. (USDA hardiness zone 4b).
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ginda Fisher
>> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:52 AM
>> To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers
>> Subject: [NAFEX] rooting Red Currants
>>
>> How hard is it to root red currants? Can I do it right now, with a
>plant that is just pushing buds?
>>
>> I have a feral red currant that I got as a seedling in my uncle's
>back yard. I've had it for more than 20 years, now, and it is in
>decline. Also, I'd like to use that spot for a Carmine Jewel cherry,
>but I'd like to save part of the plant if I could. I will try to
>transplant it, but that's dicey with an old ailing plant. I wondered
>if I might also try to cut off some twigs and root them, and how to
>do that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ginda
>> Eastern MA, zone 6
>>
>>
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