fruit bush identification please

[debster]

ok here are a couple of the fruit bushes that i bought from Aldi unlabelled they are powering away could anyone confirm what types they are please i think the first one is gooseberry and the second are raspberries? anyone agree?

[debster]

[star]

The second one does look like raspberry, the first one I can't see very well.....sorry :(

[debster]

no its not the best picture sorry but it can only be a raspberry, gooseberry or blackcurrant unless of course the shop put the wrong ones in

[dtw]

It looks more like a blackcurrant, unless you've got a thornless gooseberry.  ;D

[springbok]

the one on the left looks like my blackcurrant I bought from poundstretcher.
So I think it could be a blackcurrant.
One on the right looks like raspberry

at a guess anyway :D

[Jeannine]

Crush a leaf and smell it

[debster]

well funnily enough dtw none of all the plants had thorns which i thought really bizarre and i remember posting about at the time i thought that would be the easy way of telling. the raspberry i am pretty certain is just that. Jeannine what would the leaf smell of if i crushed it and what plant would it tell me it was?

[star]

A blackcurrant will smell blackcurrenty, dunno what a goosegog leaf smells of......goosegog maybe? If it is a gooseberry you can let us know :D

[Jeannine]

Pax goosegogs don't have thorns

[debster]

cool gues what ill be doing tomorrow  ;)

[lincolnlad]

hi debster the fruit bushes look like rasbberrys and gosseberrys because you can get thornless ones.Plant them in the ground and wait for them to fruit then put lables on them as i grow fruit on the allotment. 

[Paulines7]

Like many have suggested before me, I think the one on the left is a blackcurrant and the one on the right a raspberry.

[saddad]

Currants smell like cat pee!  :-X

[sheddie]

I agree - deffintley looks like a currant and raspberry - could be redcurrant though?

bet you can't wait for it to fruit!!

Sheddie ;D

[dtw]

Don't forget to let us know.

We shall wait (a few months) in anticipation. ;D

[Kea]

Looks like a currant on the left and a thornless raspberry. You won't know if the currant is black, red or white until it fruits. My Glen Moy Raspberry is thornless.

[debster]

well i crushed a leaf didnt smell of anything however looking at the pack again im sure the gooseberry was called Clueless? pretty apt really!  ::) and the currant should deffo be a blackcurrant but we will see watch this space as they as say

[ACE]

Don't do a lot of soft fruit, but I do a lot of ornamental ribes and that leaf is deffo ribes, so a current of sorts.

[debster]

thank you

[Ceratonia]

Agree with ace that it looks like a Ribes leaf, trouble is gooseberry is a ribes species as well (R. uva-crispa, which I think means curly grape???)

If it's "careless" you have, then it should have thorns.