Currant Pulp: Growing and Care

Despite the high value of currant berries, its production decreases every year. The fault is all labor-intensive care for seedlings, large labor inputs in harvesting, high susceptibility to pests. However, science does not stand still, and gardeners have developed new methods of growing currants, which have increased productivity and increased the use of the crop. The formation of the currant bunch is one of the innovative methods of gardening.

How to choose currant

In order to grow a currant in a stamping method, it is necessary to select the correct variety of berries. The most optimal are those that practically do not give an annual thermal increase. The smaller the shoots will form in the lower part of the bush, the better. If you are interested in a shredded currant, how to grow and get a crop at the minimum cost of care, then choose the varieties "Golubka" or "Goliath".

The main advantages of forming a currant bunch

1. Due to good access to light, the harvest ripens much faster.
2. Since the main shoots are not trimmed, the currant begins to bear fruit much earlier.
3. Currant stems bear large berries on long brushes.
4. When using the truss method of growing currants, soil cultivation is greatly facilitated.
5. Young shoots of a pudding currant are less susceptible to pests and diseases.
6. Berries acquire a well-groomed and decorative appearance.
7. Currant punch is less expensive in terms of harvesting both manually and mechanically.
8. Reconstruction of berryberries is realistic, without resorting to laborious vaccinations.

Taking into account all the advantages, it can be concluded that the best plant for growing in the country area is the stump currant. How to grow it, we will consider further.

Ways of reconstruction of bushes

There are three ways to reconstruct the currant bushes.

1. Plant the currant stalk on a one-year-old seedling. In order to do this, it is necessary in advance (in the early spring) to prepare a black currant stalk. It must be stored in a cellar, systematically checked and protected from drying out. Do not allow the stem to open the kidneys. The perfect time for grafting the cut is the end of March. You can choose both the way "into account", and "in the stock". It is necessary to plant the stalk one and a half meters from the ground. Since the wood of the currant has a very brittle structure, the grafted stalk is better to strengthen, for this it will be sufficient to tie it from two sides to the peg. After this, it is necessary to be very attentive to the plant, to water and feed in time. Shoots that will form near the roots, you need to trim. Fruiting blackberry currant will begin the next year.
2. Stamp is formed by cutting the kidneys and shoots. To do this, take an ordinary seedling and before planting remove any excess on the shoots to a height of at least 40 centimeters. To form the crown, only a few apical buds are left unharmed.
3. The latter method is the most interesting, since it consists in the use of light-tight tubes. Tubes should be put on the seedling to the height corresponding to the planned strain. Such a seedling should be planted in the soil, immersing a small piece of the tube into the ground. It is necessary to establish a support for your stem, in order to avoid breakage of twigs with rapid growth or exposure to wind. It will not be superfluous to have additional support in case of a good harvest.

Whichever way you choose to restore the berry garden, as a result you will get an increase in the harvest by at least one and a half times, renewing the crown due to additional intake of light and moisture, improving the growth of bushes, reducing the facts of currant damage by pests and diseases.

How to properly plant the seedlings, in order to subsequently grow the stems

Saplings must be planted in the ground ten centimeters deeper than it was in the greenhouse. As a basis, you can take the following scheme of planting the currant of the stem: 50x200 centimeters.

During planting, it is necessary to cut most shoots at the soil level, it is enough to leave the two most developed ones. The next year it is necessary to tie the shoots from two sides. In no case should the growth be shortened. The largest berries are formed at the very tip of the bush. The gain can reach 50-80 centimeters in the first year and 40 centimeters in the second. Already the next year, the cormorant stem will yield crops, in contrast to bush forms of cultivation.

How to care for bricks

In the second year of the bushes life, it is also necessary to cut out unnecessary shoots, leaving only the two strongest and most developed ones. Shoots that have reached the age of three years, must be cut off after they cease to bear fruit and the harvest will be harvested. Instead of one old escape there must be two young ones. This procedure will need to be carried out several years in a row, in order to properly form the currant of the stem.

For five years, the thickness of the stem can reach four centimeters.

This method of formation allows to significantly reduce the diseases and lesions of shrubs by pests, as old shoots are permanently removed. It also greatly facilitates the collection of berries, because they are all at the same height. Old shoots can be cut off annually with the harvest: the bush will not suffer from this, and the berries will simply be shaken off with a hand.

It is important to know!

1. In the fourth year, the cormorant stem begins to actively release shoots in the lower part of the bush.
2. Upper growth will happen more and more slowly every year, so do not worry.
3. Shtambovyj a way of cultivation of a black currant is admissible only in those regions where there is no freezing of branches.
4. Such a system of growing currants does not accept an increase in the dose of nitrogen fertilizers.
5. Stamp redcurrant is to be planted and left in the same ways as black.

Taking into account all the suggested recommendations, each gardener can easily grow on his plot this useful plant. Stamp currant, the photo of which is offered in this article, will be an ornament of any garden, suburban area or country house.