"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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It is no more damaging than taking cuttings for any plants that
sucker, such as raspberries. And it isn't very effective for
plants that don't! I didn't know that redcurrants suckered but,
if one does, it is a perfectly respectable method. Probably
illegal, of course.

They don't sucker as such, but when you find a wild patch of them there tend
to be lots of little plants from where young shoots have bent over and
rooted.

But yes, probably illegal. Although as there are some plants on a patch that
might be about to have a guided busroute planted on top of them, that might
sway my decision to rescue some.