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Blackcurrant plant pruning
Mich85
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in Fruit & veg
Hi
My blackcurrant bushes haven't done well this year due and have a lot of fungi too I think that from the weather from one of montys shows. Can I chop them all back to the ground to start again?
Thanks for any advice
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I think if you do that you might have to wait two years before you get more fruit. It may depend on how much fungus there is. In this link there's a section on pruning (Year 4) which I think will help you:
http://www.pyracantha.co.uk/pruning-blackcurrants/
Oh that's a brilliant link thank you! I will give them a good old pruning and mulching then I think and see what happens! I don't mind waiting for the fruit chickens had them this year before we had chance! ? I think there prpberbyly at least 10 years old anyway!
Oh right Ok, they still seem to crop really well so think I will give them the snip and if they die they die and I'll just start again ? nit sure of the right age as they were here when i moved in 4 years ago and they must of been already there for 5 years before! Good croppers that's why I'm a bit reluctant to just start again straight away without trying something first
My neighbours blackcurrents are over 40 years now, and they still produce masses, he does NOTHING to them, no fertiliser no pruning nothing. (he doesn't even like blackcurrents they just came with the house when he bought it)I have redcurrents which are at least 30 years and they are the same, however my blackcurrents had certainly had their best years, so last autumn I took cuttings, stuck them in the ground and I now have 20 new bushes ready for transplanting this autumn after they go dorment. If you think they are too big/old taking cuttings and making new bushes may well work.