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- Multiply currants by cuttings
- So redcurrants are propagated by cuttings
- The best time for cutting the cuttings
- Plant cuttings
- Transplant cuttings
- Tips & Tricks
Multiply currants by cuttings
You have a currant in the garden that bears particularly tasty fruit? Just multiply them. By cutting cuttings, you gain new plants that have as many and beautiful berries as the mother plant.
So redcurrants are propagated by cuttings
The best time for cutting the cuttings
The late autumn is best suited to gain pegs. Choose healthy, vigorous, annual shoots of a well-behaved currant plant.
Separate one or more shoots with a clean, sharp knife. Divide them into 20 to 30 centimeter long pieces. Cut the bottom side of each cuttings at an angle, keeping the top side straight.
Prepare a cultivation bed with loose soil. Use a thin stick to pierce holes 15 to 20 centimeters deep at least ten centimeters apart.
Plant cuttings
Insert the sections with the bottom side into the prepared holes, deep enough so that only two eyes remain above the ground. Be careful not to damage the cuttings.
Squeeze the ground and gently pour the rows. Make sure that the water jet is gentle, so that the earth is not washed away.
Finally, spread a two-centimeter thick mulch cover of ripe compost, leaves or other mulch material over the row.
Transplant cuttings
Already in the spring, new leaves should show on the above-ground eyes. If the plantlets are big enough, you can transplant them already in spring.
But you can also wait until autumn to bring the new currants to their final location.
You need a little patience until the first harvest. Only after three years you can harvest the first currants from your home-grown shrubs.
Tips & Tricks
Cuttings of redcurrants can also be put into small pots with potting soil. The pots can be placed and maintained in an easily accessible place. The cuttings will be planted next fall.