red currants

[gordonsveg]

 ??? ??? ::)  Please has anyone any diagrams or pictures they can put on the site showing how to prune redcurrants?
  I`m o.k. with blackcurrants and the other fruit.  The currant bushes havnt been pruned for about 4 yrs.


      ;D ;DThanks one and all.

[gordonsveg]

[cambourne7]

Redcurrants fruit on old wood, pruning should be limited to thinning out and the removal of weaker branches. This should be done in September.

[Suzanne]

Thanks for posting this I ws about to ask the same question. :)

[Dadnlad]

We grow our red and white currants as cordons -  all we do is cut all this years new growth back to 4 leaves (usualy 2-3 inches) in early summer,  then again back to an inch in winter

The early summer pruning seems to need doing about the same time as aphids arrive on the tips of the new growth - so by pruning off we dont need to spray - the plants then seem to devote their energy to ripening fruit  ;D