How to choose suitable cuttings for currant propagation: summer residents shared small but important tricks
If you are going to propagate currants using the cutting method, do not forget that this plant is quite capricious.
Therefore, if you want to succeed, the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh advises to start with a careful selection of cuttings.
Let's start with the fact that not all plants can produce "promising" shoots.
The best shoots for cuttings are those taken from strong, healthy plants.
But even among them there are those that should be given priority - these are mother plants that received a lot of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers with a pronounced lack of nitrogen, since plants overfed with nitrogen develop buds worse.
Another requirement for mother currant bushes is that they should not be too old, since the younger the plant, the better its branches root.
It is best to take cuttings not from the upper, actively growing part of the plant, but from its lateral shoots.
Finally, remember that dormant plants produce better quality cuttings, so it is better to cut currant branches in early spring, before the buds begin to swell, as later cuttings may root worse and even die.
Earlier, the expert told how to get a record tomato harvest .
