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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Ginda, these plants are only 3 years old and not fully mature,  there
wasn't a lot of fruit compared to much older plants that I have...  &
almost no multiple berries on stems.

I have a Crandall bush that I get a gallon from one bush (but then a
bush is more like an accumulation of a mother plant and a bunch of
self-layered suckers.

~mIEKAL



On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
> I pluck the whole stems off currants. I've never tried to harvest more than 
> two bushes at a time, but that seems like a lot of time for the amount of 
> berries. Did you get lots of stems with only one or two berries? I've 
> picked about a gallon of fruit off two bushes, and while I didn't keep 
> track of how long it took, it didn't seem like it was a really long time.
>
> Ginda
>
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:08 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
>
>> Not selling any yet, but I had 60 Consort bushes that are 3 years old,
>> some fruit on them but not really productive yet.  I wanted to see how
>> long it would take to pick them pretty clean and it amounted to about
>> 14 hours for about 6-7 gallons of fruit which produced 2 1/2 gallons
>> of juice which I will make into black currant melomel.  I'm gonna have
>> to figure out more efficient ways to harvest in the future.
>>
>> ~mIEKAL
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:
>>>    Does anyone sell black currant fruit or juice?  I had a crop failure
>>> this year.
>>>
>>> Jim Fruth
>>> Brambleberry Fruit Farm
>>> 4002 Davis Street
>>> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
>>>
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