I am puzzled. When I bought my gooseberry bushes, there were meant to be two green and a red. However the fruit from all bushes has turned out to be red ??? Is it possible that they cross pollinate and produce fruit of a different colour? Or did I just get ripped off on the merchandise?
One of them was a Wineham's Industry which is red. But one of the others was meant to be an Invicta. The fruit is still tasty! :) But it's a bit puzzling.
swap ya, our red has turned out to be ordinary and we already have 3 green bushes ;D
Sounds like bad labelling all round to me... :-X
Yes I think I agree, but as this is the first time I have had fruit all round, it is now a bit late to complain! Oh well, as long as the fruit is tasty! But I still somehow associate gooseberry with green!
I have been eating the red ones from my garde for the last few days and they are out of this world.....mmmm.
I agree with Saddad, that the labelling was wrong. You could try complaining to the nursery and they may give you a green variety. Have you still got the labels or the receipt?
Whinham's industry starts green and ripens to red. Invicta should be green.
I rather like the red ones. I got one from Lidl a few years back and this year has been a bumper year. I do not think they taste like gooseberries but they are very tasty indeed.
Quote from: Paulines7 on July 22, 2010, 10:22:21
I agree with Saddad, that the labelling was wrong. You could try complaining to the nursery and they may give you a green variety. Have you still got the labels or the receipt?
Well, it's not the first season! so it's been a bit too long! I bought them via Internet from quite a reputable site... it's just the first time I have realised that all the fruit from every bush is red (and started out red, as well).
We have a green variety Pixwell that ripens to a pink then a burgundy. But it is always shown as a green berry.
Quote from: antipodes on July 21, 2010, 13:13:33
... Is it possible that they cross pollinate and produce fruit of a different colour?
No, even if they did cross pollinate, it would affect only the seed within the gooseberry. If you planted those seeds, you may get some plants green and some red, but the fruit on the bushes you have will always be the same colour as when they started.
Out of interest, my Whinham's start green and go red and to a deep purple as they ripen. They taste nice, but I don't think quite so good as Invicta. Invicta is good and sharp at the first stage of ripeness, and then when you leave some on the branches to go really soft & ripe, they are gorgeous, and a lovely translucent yellow colour.
I planted 1xred and 1xgreen when i first got the plot, later that year they both developed a few fruits of the correct colour.
I moved them both early this year and had plenty of manure in the new beds, both produced red fruits :-\
Maybe next year they will be green ;D
Neil
Wish I had the camera. Found a stripey green gooseberry all alone, quite ripe, on a Whinham's Industry bush today (red). So how? ;D just goes to show.