Black Currant Plant Zone. All of our cultivars are resistant to white pine blister rust and powdery mildew. Nourse farms currant plants tart, tasty, and versatile!
Currant color types include red, white, pink, and black. A mature currant or gooseberry shrub can produce up to four quarts of fruit annually. This spring (it is march 29th) it came back !!!
Pruning should be done so that 12 canes are left for each plant in order to maximize the yield of the plant.
With black currant, you will want to prune so that the plant gets new wood each season, because that is where the fruit will be coming from, the growth from the previous year. In the united states, it grows well in the pacific northwest and the northeast, most varieties being hardy to zone 3 0r 4. Black currant growing guide crop rotation group. Choose between red, pink, white, and black currant varieties.