Gooseberries and currants on the stem
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Stamp currant and gooseberries: useless fashion or practical beauty?
20 years ago I met my colleague and friend Roman Vrublevsky. and he, in turn, introduced me and many other gardeners and nurserymen with outlandish at that time garden crops-a tart currant and gooseberry.
It was really a novelty! Most of us, nurserymen, both large and small, had a standard set of seedlings, and Roman exhibited a tree of currant and gooseberry, in which the crown began at an altitude of 1 m.
The billboards were also impressive - meter-long photographs in which Roman's little daughters were reaching for the currant berries. And it was his main product!
The effect was obvious.
People crowded, rustled, took an interest and bought! Roman had to go home for seedlings two times a day.
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Stamp trees
Someone from experienced colleagues immediately began to criticize the novelty, and someone including me, very interested in this business.
Critics said:
“Why plant such trees, because they give a much lower yield than ordinary bushes, besides the price is four times higher?” Roman, in turn, told customers about the benefits: Such currant and gooseberry trees are not only useful, but also very decorative. Under them, you can grow something else, such as wild strawberries or plant some flowers, and they give a slightly smaller crop - 90-70% of the size of the crop from an ordinary bush. In addition, there is no need to bend over the berries, and the children will have to pull themselves up. ”
And then I realized - both of them are right. The fact is that if your goal is a berry plantation, then the standard currant or gooseberry will not be useful to you - ordinary bushes are needed here. However, if you are also concerned with the aesthetic side of gardening, if you need a garden not only to satisfy your physical needs, but also to enjoy the beauty, then the standard forms will be simply irreplaceable.
Thus, we do not plant currants on the backs of the garden or the kitchen garden, do not hide it, but, on the contrary, put it on display - it is really beautiful, and also delicious! A row of such plants along the path or a detached and fruiting tree in the middle of the flower garden will always delight the eye and soul.
But I immediately need to bring some clarity into the question, what is the chopped currantand. The fact is that many gardeners think that the standard trees of black, red, golden or gooseberry currants are such varieties. No. Briefly tell you how we grow such plants.
Growing standard currant - vaccination
At an altitude of 1 m we plant any variety of currant or gooseberries on the long rooted shoot of the golden currant of the Brecht variety. We have queen cells to grow such shoots, rootstocks. The main advantage of this rootstock is that it practically does not give a radical growth. Thus, the tree will always stand with one trunk.
At the beginning of his activity, Roman made vaccinations for an ordinary golden currant, and she gave a lot of trees. Therefore, it was necessary to instruct the gardeners in detail so that they did not forget to remove the shoots, both root and stem. The new rootstock solved this problem completely.
However, if you do not have this stock, you can be vaccinated on any grade of golden currant. You just have to clean the root shoot in the first 2-3 years. Immediately make a reservation that the method of vaccination is only copulation (not budding!).
Incidentally, golden currant (and therefore the whole tree) is very hardy. In the nursery we don’t even shelter seedlings in containers for the winter (in our area it can be up to minus 35 °). Everything freezes right through with the roots and perfectly grows in the spring.
See also: Inoculation of roses on the stem - planting and care (photo + video)
Of course, abundantly fruit bearing trees will require permanent supports. This can be a metal tube or a bamboo peg, which will help the tree to hold the vertical position. If the crop is too large, which happens quite often, then in order to avoid a break on such a support, you can make a chat room and use it to tie too heavy twigs.
My wish is the nurseries of the waters: cultivate the seedlings of the pudding currant and gooseberry-this is still a novelty in many regions. By the way, I will immediately share the idea: Roman grows a stock with a forked top and grafts on each in a different variety. Thus, we get a double-tree sap-for example, red and white currants or red and white gooseberries. This is even more interesting!
And amateur gardeners would like to experiment - to acquire or to plant and grow their standard forms, including two-varietal ones. By the way, we have not yet tried to plant, for example, blackcurrant and gooseberry on the same tree. Experiment!
© Author: E. FEDOTOV Lithuania
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When and how do I need to feed currants and gooseberries?
Currants, gooseberries are unpretentious plants, but in order for them to bear fruit abundantly, you need to spoil them periodically with "goodies." In the fall, under each bush, add 100-120 g of superphosphate, 50-60 g of potassium sulfate. Once every three years, fertilize the soil with organic fertilizers - manure or humus of 12-15 kg per bush. In spring, plants need nitrogen, so immediately after the snow melts it is useful to add 80 g of ammonium nitrate under the bushes. Liquid top dressing is very effective (in early spring and after flowering, during the setting of berries), you can even use ordinary mullein diluted in water at a ratio of 1:10, half a bucket for each plant.
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A CURRANT TREE
I grow the red currant on the stem. Formed it from a seedling with a powerful vertical shoot length of 30 cm. The remaining shoots cut out, and even broke the kidneys in the zone of the future stem, leaving only 5-6 on top. The following year he formed a crown from shoots. Slish-
he shortened long combs by cutting to the outer kidney, and weak ones by cutting. All shoots appearing in the zone of the stem were removed. Currant tied to a peg: first for stability, and then - to support the bush with the crop! In subsequent years, all the buds and shoots that appeared on the stem were also removed, and the shoots growing inside the crown were shortened. If after some time the yield decreases, it will be possible to trim the skeletal branches so that the lateral ones begin to grow.