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White Currant
White Currant
A variety of red currant
How to sow white currant: Cuttings
Sun requirement for white currant: Plant in Full Sun
White Currants are a group of Red Currant cultivars that produce hanging clusters of champagne-colored, translucent, edible berries that are sweeter and slightly smaller than Red Currants. All currants are perennial, deciduous, woody shrubs that are related to gooseberries and prefer damp, fertile soils. The berries can be eaten raw but are often cooked into sweet and savory dishes, or made into jams, syrups, juice, and wine.
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White currant facts
Lifespan
Height × spread
150cm × 120cmRow Spacing
150cmCrop cycle
Optimal light
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For white currant, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 5°C and a shortest growing cycle of 150 days at its best temperature, about 1650 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your white currant will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Ribes rubrum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Rosales Grossulariaceae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -10 °C |
| Life form | shrub |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | heavy, medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
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