Camile
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my beautiful soft fruit trees...... are all breaking because of the strong winds... am gutted... one of the most fully loaded black currants branch has collapsed in my hands ... i wonder if i can save anything, do u think i can replant the branch and hope that the currants are going to ripened in the tunnel , or is it all lost ? am about to cry (mel there, not camile) have been waiting for the 1s harvest for 3 years !!! have u any suggestions that could help me ?
thanks in advance
mel
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quarryman
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Try putting the branch into a bucket of water and leave it in the poly. I think it's worth a go but you would never know.
Good luck.
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Camile
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thanks for that quarryman, tried it and will keep my fingers crossed 
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chook
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Mel/Camile,
I have a surplus of black currants; they are not yet ripe but when they are you'd be most welcome to come down and pick a few bushes full as I never get them all picked anyway.
chook
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blowin
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Nice one Chook  .
Quarryman's advice sounds like a good way of trying to salvage what you've got . I certainly can't think of another . It might even give you a new bush if you leave the broken branch in the water for a week or so after you have removed the fruit .
I don't yet know what the birds do to Blackcurrants over here but they have totally stripped all of my Reds over the past 2 days !  . Annoying thing is that I had inspected them and figured that they would be safe for a few days in this horrible weather because they would stay green and nothing had bothered them so far . BUT at the first hint of colour they were all gone .
Good luck
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Camile
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Thanks Chook,
we might take you up on this one, although we harvested just under 3 kilos between red and black currents yesterday .... and there is still plenty on the bushes that are not yet ripe ...
the jam is gorgeous !
as for the birds, we've protected ours with a net over them .... the net get blown off with the wind but so far there doesn't seems to be any real damage from the birds ... fingers crossed ..
and the branch in the tunnel seems to be ripening, so time will tell ...
Thanks again for the advices ...
Camile
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MrsL
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As far as I am aware, blackcurrant cuttings won't strike in water (but I may be wrong); pop them into the ground, and leave for a year or so to root, then dig up carefully and move to their desired position.
As for the redcurrants, the best crops I get are when the weeds are allowed to grow up and around the bushes, hiding the ripe fruit from the birds.
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