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Cross-pollination question
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I have 3 Ben Lomond blackcurrant bushes in a border of my back garden which are producing quite a good crop of green berries at the moment. I have also noticed this year that a flowering currant (ribes) bush elsewhere in the back garden is full of green berries too, and also that a couple of these bushes planted across the road from our house are also full of them! Could it be that bees have pollinated these usually berryless (apart from a very few) with pollen from my blackcurrant bushes and made them grow berries? I realise that they are related but this didn't happen last year that I remember? If the flowering currant bushes go on to produce crops of berries are these perfectly edible and are they as nice as cultivated blackcurrants? Lynda |
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Cross-pollination question
On Thu, 15 May 2003 12:29:54 +0000 (UTC), Lynda Thornton
wrote: Hi I have 3 Ben Lomond blackcurrant bushes in a border of my back garden which are producing quite a good crop of green berries at the moment. I have also noticed this year that a flowering currant (ribes) bush elsewhere in the back garden is full of green berries too, and also that a couple of these bushes planted across the road from our house are also full of them! Could it be that bees have pollinated these usually berryless (apart from a very few) with pollen from my blackcurrant bushes and made them grow berries? I realise that they are related but this didn't happen last year that I remember? If the flowering currant bushes go on to produce crops of berries are these perfectly edible and are they as nice as cultivated blackcurrants? Lynda I think that's very likely. In the book I have it implies this is common. It might just be a lucky year for weather/bee timing as well. I suspect the berries wouldn't be so nice as yours. The flowering ones are cultivated for their blooms, and the qualities of the berries are a secondary consideration. They should be edible though, I'd have thought. Tim. |
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