The beginning or the end of season – optimum time for rejuvenation of bushes of currant you should not Neglect action, in the started copies there are a lot of sickly, infilling and fruitless branches and yielding harvest it is not enough.
What will be if not to cut off currant
Young saplings begin to please with currant harvest in two or three years after landing. Competent leaving allows to reach fructification pica to five-year age of bush. The lack of regular cutting leads to thickening of landings, melcheniye of berries and scarcity of harvest. As a result of negligent attitude, currant grows old much earlier.
For reference: natural aging of blackcurrant occurs by 14 years, and red – to 18.
However many summer residents write off modest harvest for unfortunate winter or summer. At the same time the dog is buried often only in leaving.
Pluses of cutting of currant
During timely removal of old and weak young escapes:
- bushes are exposed to infection with fungal diseases and invasion of wreckers less;
- power supply straight goes to ovaries that does berries larger and more tasty;
- the sapling is gradually updated, without ceasing to please with harvest;
- correctly created escapes begin to grow.
Rejuvenation after gathering berries provides sound annual gain. The harvest of future seasons is as a result put, and competently created adult plants long time are in the fructifying state.
When to cut off currant
You carry out the rejuvenating cutting to several calling. In the fall or cut off the bush consisting at least of 20 skeletal branches of different age for the purpose of the correct forming in the early spring.
You carry out cutting in the sanitary purposes in the spring: delete the damaged, dry, infected with wreckers and frozen slightly branches. In the middle of July to prishchipyvayta actively vegetiruyushchy escapes that they have managed to stuff up as much as possible kidneys. At bushes age more than five years surely cut old branches.
Rejuvenation of currant at different age
Currant grows sprawlingly, without leaving it in two-three years is capable to get out of shape and to fructify qualitatively. Many gardeners make mistake including that it is necessary to cut off only bushes in old age (is more senior than five-six years). Form currant from first year, literally from the date of landing.
Delete all sickly one-year branches. From strong do not touch two-three, leave cut off old on replacement. In the absence of sound zero escapes thin out bush in different places where it is necessary to stimulate formation of zero escapes. Cut off in addition no more than three powerful old branches.
Delete old branches
Lion's part of berries ripens in the center of escapes. Exactly there are also many branches-plodushek, but they bring harvest only two-three years. Only you do not hurry to cut all old low-fructifying escapes at once. Elongate their removal for two-three years, replacing growing from zero, at the worst, from volchkovy escapes. Branches are more senior than five-year age cut out at ground level. At similar forming on currant there will always be enough uneven-age escapes.
Prepare replacement
Many gardeners are afraid to say goodbye to ancient bushes of currant. As a result at the site there are copies to which has already passed in 10, 20, and even all 30 years! Precisely it is not necessary to wait for harvest from such relics. If berry for you above all, you do not hold bush more than 10 years. As soon as the plant steps over this boundary, safely root out it. Prepare for the growing decrepit copies replacement beforehand. Optimum time – after seven-eight years.
Make multiple copies currant layers. It is the simplest. By Porykhlite the soil near bush, make grooves is not deeper than five centimeters, incline in them powerful branches, pin wire and strew lightly with soil.
As soon as gains grow up at least up to 15 cm, hill them humus or soil. By fall the young growth will increase the mass of roots. Separate them secateurs from maternal bush, dig out without destroying lump and place on the constant place.
Small secret: you allocate to currant the place not in the open sun, and in half-shade. Then berries ripen many times more largely.