What will we cut first? If your bush is still young, it does not need pruning yet. But if it is already in adulthood and gives new shoots (those with light gray bark), such a bush and you need to trim so that the bush began to look delicate and not thickened. The main principle of the gardener: each branch should receive enough sunlight, well, and replacement shoots should receive living space.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – April 20, 2021 – Agriculture
Everything is old and weak – away
We remove all diseased and withered branches, including old and thick stumps.
Old and thick branches with shoots older than six to seven years are removed. These are weak shoots, their growth is insignificant, and the light regime for young branches is disturbed. Plus young growths are deficient in nutrition.
All broken branches are cut over a strong bud.
We send under the knife deformed shoots due to aphid infestation or disease, because the dead parts of such branches are quickly inhabited by fungi.
Branches that go down because they lie on the ground, which will make it difficult to care for and provoke an outbreak of fungal diseases. Damage? Then we put props.
Remove all thin and weak shoots.
Remove or thin
Intersecting branches.
Branches going inside the bush.
Annual weak shoots in the center of the bush, leaving about 3 pcs.
Thickened areas. If there are clearly more shoots/branches in one part of the bush, it is better to sacrifice several of them so that the crown is developed evenly and the food is distributed accordingly.
Long branches that disrupt the harmony of the overall appearance of the crown, cut above the bud.
We bring beauty around
Remove weeds under the bush.
Loosen carefully, do not dig anything, because the root system of currants is superficial.
Feed with a complex fertilizer with a predominance of nitrogen and mulch the stem circles.
Who is a glass
It is a butterfly, very similar to a wasp. Deposits larvae in cracks in the bark. The caterpillars make their way along the trunk to the base. On the cut of the infected stem, you will see a wormhole. The branches of her “work” wither and dry up.
How to deal with the glass? Spraying a special drug on the leaf as soon as the leaves bloom. Repeat – in 10-14 days. Tobacco dust/ash in the soil. However, the main thing is still – pruning!
As for red currants, they are productive for eight to ten years. Gooseberries live 12-20 years. He needs to remove all branches older than ten years. If there is good growth on the branch, but there is a lichen, we leave it.
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Source: Ukrgate
