Please make sure JavaScript is enabled.
 
Profile Image Ruth Chin

sushiwaitress

First time homeowner with busy day job. Trying to transition from suburban lawn & tangled trees to edible landscaping. New Jersey USA Zone 7a

Ribes Nigrum

  • Season Icon Late SpringLate Spring 2023
  • Like Count 9
comment
sushiwaitress

#blackcurrant-consort ripening. I'm leaving for vacation in 4 sleeps, so I might miss my first-ever fresh #blackcurrant. 15 June 2023 #ribesnigrum #gyo #grownfromcuttings #plantsfromfriends #hundredfruitfarm

2w
  • Season Icon Late SpringLate Spring 2023
  • Like Count 7
comment
sushiwaitress

#blackcurrant-consort #berries getting bigger.... 8 June 2023 #ribesnigrum #edible #ediblelandscaping

2w
  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2023
  • Like Count 5
comment
sushiwaitress

I'm gonna get some #blackcurrant-consort fruit this year! Never tasted one ever. 12 May 2023 #ribesnigrum #blackcurrant

2w
  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2023
  • Like Count 10
comment
sushiwaitress

@jastyn a #microbotany #blackcurrant-consort #teenytiny #flower aww so cute 2 May 2023 #ribesnigrum

2w
comment
jastyn

awesome shot of them flowers! cute indeed!

2w
  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2023
  • Like Count 8
comment
sushiwaitress

#blackcurrant-consort is blooming, yay! Last time this year it was a small cutting and I pulled off the flowers so the plant would make roots. These I'm going to leave on. I've never tasted a currant except in jam. 2 May 2023 #ribesnigrum #ribes #plantsfromfriends #fromcutting #edible

2w
  • Season Icon Early SpringEarly Spring 2023
  • Like Count 9
comment
sushiwaitress

#blackcurrant-consort starting to wake up 9 Apr 2023 #ribesnigrum #edible

2w
  • Season Icon Early SpringEarly Spring 2023
  • Like Count 6
comment
sushiwaitress

Kind of hard to see while there's no leaves, but my #blackcurrant-consort grew 18 inches of new growth last season and there are buds up and down both branches getting ready to open. 😱 #ribesnigrum #ribes #currant #edible #plantsfromfriends

2w
  • Season Icon Late SummerLate Summer 2022
  • Like Count 9
comment
sushiwaitress

The #blackcurrant-consort lost a lot of its lower leaves to the dry summer, but I see green buds, so maybe it'll make more leaves before winter...? The redcurrant on the right might not have made it. It's never been as strong as the other 10 Sep 2022 #ribesnigrum #redcurrant-redlake #ribesrubrum

2w
  • Season Icon Mid SummerMid Summer 2022
  • Like Count 9
comment
sushiwaitress

The difference between potting my #blackcurrant-consort on 21 May (left) and potting my #redcurrant-redlake on 19 June (right). My theory is that the additional room for the roots and the nutrients from the soil gave this guy a boost while the weather was still cool. Or maybe the red currant just plain grows more slowly. 28 July 2022 #observation #hugelbucket

2w
comment
thenaturalgardeningnomad

Did you get any black currants?

2w
comment
sushiwaitress

Not this year. They both flowered but I pulled them off because they need to grow roots first. They were dormant sticks when I got them, so giving them time to grow a little before fruiting. Next year though. @thenaturalgardeningnomad

2w
comment
thenaturalgardeningnomad

My black currants had a tomato aftertaste, im not sure if they are actually black currant

2w
  • Season Icon Late SpringLate Spring 2022
  • Like Count 10
comment
sushiwaitress

#blackcurrant-consort seems pretty happy in its #hugelbucket -- bunch of new growth 19 June 2022 #ribesnigrum #blackcurrant

3w
  • Season Icon Late SpringLate Spring 2022
  • Like Count 12
comment
sushiwaitress

Also got the #blackcurrant-consort into a deeper pot (#bucket) where its roots can dig deep. Now I don't have to worry about it drying out in the hot summer 21 May 2022 #ribesnigrum #permaculture

3w
  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2022
  • Like Count 8
comment
sushiwaitress

The #blackcurrant-consort #cutting is also flowering 23 Apr 2022

3w
  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2022
  • Like Count 12
comment
sushiwaitress

#blackcurrant-consort #cutting breaking bud two weeks after being chopped off and shoved into a pot 20 Mar 2022 #ifitwantstoliveitllfight

3w
  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2022
  • Like Count 11
comment
sushiwaitress

Potted my #blackcurrant-consort #cutting today. 74°F on 7 Mar 2022

3w
  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2022
  • Like Count 14
comment
sushiwaitress

At my #permaculture class today, we learned about #propagagation by #cuttings and all the students got four surprise #freeplants 😍 this cultivar is Consort #blackcurrant #blackcurrant-consort #propagatedby-cuttings 5 Mar 2022

3w