[troutrunner]

I have a few fruit bushes, Black, White and Red Currants and a Gooseberry, is it worth using the prunings as cuttings.
  A few years back I cut back a flowering ornamental currant and stuck four bits in the ground along a hedge line I am promoting and three of them are growing nicely, can I do the same with the fruiting varieties and will they grow in well tended pots.

[Yorkie]

Can't see why not, give it a go 

[troutrunner]

would it be best to use some of that rooting powder stuff or not

[richyrich7]

Just make a slit in the ground with a spade, drop your hardwood cuttings in. you should leave 2 buds above ground 3-4 below. gently tread the soil closed. And leave it to mother nature
If your soils heavy then a little sand down the hole will help.

[troutrunner]

Thanks, I'll give them a go

[GrannieAnnie]

I pruned my blackcurrant about 3 years ago TR,  and the blackcurrant itself I found growing out of the side of our old patio, so it must have grown from a little pip!  Anyway, planted the prunings, but I did use rooting powder to be on the safe side, and 24 out of 30 grew.  I gave them all away once rooted, and as far as i know they are all doing well!

So I agree, give it a go!

Also I gave it a really hard prune this past autumn, as it was HUGE, and underneath I found 12 little bushes growing from where teh old branches had touched the ground, so you could do that too.  For the minute I can't think what that's called, is it layering where you peg the branch onto the ground and the roots grow from there?

[peapod]

I

For the minute I can't think what that's called, is it layering where you peg the branch onto the ground and the roots grow from there?

Thats it  :happy:

[GrannieAnnie]

I

For the minute I can't think what that's called, is it layering where you peg the branch onto the ground and the roots grow from there?

Thats it  :happy:

Not as thick as I thought I was then! 

[peapod]

You reminded me of it! 

[GrannieAnnie]

    What, I reminded you of a currant pruning?

Do I look like a currant pruning??   

[peapod]

No......you reminded me of the word layering  

(are you now twiggy thin and green though?)

[troutrunner]

Thanks folks, so now I must give it ago at the week end

[GrannieAnnie]

Hav patience though TR, they ccan take a long time to show any growth.  I thought it was up to a yer, but I think after a couple of months, my little twigs shows signs of llife!

Peapod!   I wish,  well long and thin if not green! lol