The number of becoming-berries on the redcurrants this year is about 20x as many as last year. Even the new cuttings are trying to fruit this year! Why are they so prolific this year? I did prune it over winter, though not as much as is generally recommended. Anything I can do to help as many as possible ripen?

It gets sun from about 1pm on, and we're in the mild south


NT

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The number of becoming-berries on the redcurrants this year is about
20x as many as last year. Even the new cuttings are trying to fruit
this year! Why are they so prolific this year? I did prune it over
winter, though not as much as is generally recommended. Anything I can
do to help as many as possible ripen?

It gets sun from about 1pm on, and we're in the mild south


NT


I don't know the answer but the blackcurrant in our garden, as with
gooseberries is a bumper flower. What comes next? The winds have not
knocked them off too serverely as the polinators. Wait and see? I don't
know.

Baz

NT wrote

The number of becoming-berries on the redcurrants this year is about 20x as
many as last year. Even the new cuttings are trying to fruit this year! Why
are they so prolific this year? I did prune it over winter, though not as
much as is generally recommended. Anything I can do to help as many as
possible ripen?

It gets sun from about 1pm on, and we're in the mild south



Yes, keep the mice away or you will lose the lot.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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On Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:36:29 PM UTC+1, Bob Hobden wrote:
NT wrote

The number of becoming-berries on the redcurrants this year is about 20x as
many as last year. Even the new cuttings are trying to fruit this year! Why
are they so prolific this year? I did prune it over winter, though not as
much as is generally recommended. Anything I can do to help as many as
possible ripen?

It gets sun from about 1pm on, and we're in the mild south

Yes, keep the mice away or you will lose the lot.

Consider it done thanks

NT

On 11/05/2013 19:58, wrote:
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:36:29 PM UTC+1, Bob Hobden wrote:
NT wrote

The number of becoming-berries on the redcurrants this year is about 20x as
many as last year. Even the new cuttings are trying to fruit this year! Why
are they so prolific this year? I did prune it over winter, though not as
much as is generally recommended. Anything I can do to help as many as
possible ripen?

It gets sun from about 1pm on, and we're in the mild south

Yes, keep the mice away or you will lose the lot.

Consider it done thanks

NT

Never heard of mice going for red currants before, I've always lost mine
to birds at the first flush of colour

"David Hill" wrote

wrote:
Bob Hobden wrote:
NT wrote

The number of becoming-berries on the redcurrants this year is about
20x as
many as last year. Even the new cuttings are trying to fruit this year!
Why
are they so prolific this year? I did prune it over winter, though not
as
much as is generally recommended. Anything I can do to help as many as
possible ripen?

It gets sun from about 1pm on, and we're in the mild south

Yes, keep the mice away or you will lose the lot.

Consider it done thanks



Never heard of mice going for red currants before, I've always lost mine to
birds at the first flush of colour

The first cropping year we had our red current bush we had a good crop, the
second year there was a good crop ripening then it all disappeared. Some
days later I was tidying up our brassicas and found heaps of red currents
under the old cabbage leaves. Obviously stored there by mice as they do
that.
Similar with our cherries, netted against the birds but they still all got
taken so this year I'm working on baffles on the trunks to stop mice
climbing up as well as netting against birds. The only problem is if it's
two legged thieves.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK