Multiply currants by cuttings

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• Multiply currants by cuttings
• Multiply currants by cuttings
• Prepare the cultivation bed and cut the cuttings
• Insert cuttings
• To transform young currant plants
• The first pruning in the second year
• Transplant to final location
• First harvest after three years
• Tips & Tricks

Multiply currants by cuttings

If you want to multiply currants yourself, you need patience. It takes three years for the new plants to produce the first berries. The propagation of currant shrubs followed by cuttings. This is so easy that even garden beginners can easily grow new shrubs.

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Multiply currants by cuttings

Prepare the cultivation bed and cut the cuttings

Propagation by cuttings is the most successful in late autumn. Prepare a nursery bed by loosening the soil about 30 centimeters deep and add some sand.

Choose annual shoots of a currant plant that bears many fruits. Cut some cuttings of 20 to 30 centimeters in length. Perform the cut directly under one eye with a sharp knife. There new roots are formed the fastest.

Always cut cuttings at an angle. For straight cuts, there is a risk of water collecting on the surface that can not drain off. The cuttings would rot by it.

Insert cuttings

Place the cuttings at a distance of ten centimeters deep into the prepared soil so that only two eyes remain above the surface.

Press the earth gently. Pour the cuttings carefully.

Spread a two-centimeter high mulch cover of compost, leaves, straw, or other mulch materials on the floor.

To transform young currant plants

The following autumn, the cuttings should have formed numerous roots. To further strengthen the root system, transplant the seedlings to another location.

The first pruning in the second year

In the second autumn it is time to cut the young currant bushes for the first time. All weak branches are removed.

Six strong shoots may stop at the plant. Later, the first berries grow on them. The remaining main drives shorten you by half.

Transplant to final location

Subsequently, the young currant plants are transplanted to their final location.

Choose a sunny, sheltered location. Prepare the soil well before planting by loosening it, improving it with compost and pulling the weeds.

Do not set the young plants too deep in the ground at a distance of 1.50 to 2 meters. Press the earth tightly and pour in the currants.

First harvest after three years

In the third year, you can harvest the first fruits of your new currant bushes.

Tips & Tricks

Currant bushes can also be propagated by lowering. Bend down a shoot so far that it lies on the ground. Cover several sections of at least 15 centimeters in length with soil. Next spring, the first roots should have formed, so you can separate the seedlings from the mother plant.