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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

Where does one obtain this black currant? Raintree has expanded their 
offerings to 21, but this isn't among them.

Dave Liezen


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> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:54:46 -0500
> 
From: antonptak@gmail.com
> To: 
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [nafex] 
chernaya lisovenko
>
> the description of these 
currants does match my experience. I should
> say that I have 
only a couple years experience with these currants.
> They are 
upright and compact. I have them at 3' spacing and that 
seems
> good, though could probably go down to 2' if one 
were constrained with
> space. I eat them out of hand but 
certainly there are those that would
> think I was nuts. I do 
think their taste ranks up there, at least as
> good if not 
better than Titania (of course, that's completely
> 
subjective). Their major distinction, as far as I have experienced, 
is
> their extreme precociousness, fruiting for me (quite 
surprisingly) very
> heavily in their 2nd year, and thus 
far, their immunity to disease. I
> have several other varieties 
that seem to be at least somewhat
> susceptible to 
anthracnose/leaf spot at my site, if not very
> susceptible, but 
these have shown no signs of the disease or any effect
> 
whatsoever with many new canes every year. They can be a little 
tricky
> to pick, as there are usually fully ripe currants and 
completely green
> currants on the same, tight cluster, making 
picking in the first couple
> weeks of production very time 
consuming. If I were to delay picking
> until more of them come 
ripe, I'd lose a decent amount dropping of the
> plants, so 
selective picking seems necessary.
>
> They also 
make a great dry wine with champagne yeast.
>
> Now 
to search for the gooseberry that is resistant to leaf spot. . . 
.
> pixwell is horrible in that regard. I'm currently 
trialing colossal,
> invicta, and black velvet, and soon to be 
planted hinomaki red.
>
> Anton Ptak
> 
zone 4a W. Wisc
>
>
> PS> I have 
no idea what is meant by underground blooming. . . 
.???
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