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Bob Hobden wrote:

I have two gooseberry bushes, but one has thrown a couple of new
shoots where the stems are far more prickly (rather than thorny)
than the main plant, and the leaves are far larger, much less
lobed and much lighter in colour.

Any ideas as to what is going on? Nobody grafts gooseberry bushes,
do they?

They are so easy from cuttings and grow on so well that there would be
little point in grafting but you never know, maybe they have grafted onto an
American gooseberry which is a different species.

I didn't think of the obvious answer! I removed it, and it was a
seedling that I had previously taken fopr a sucker.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.