Ribes

I have a young Ribes that's been in the ground for two years, is maturing quickly and just starting to bloom for the first time. Can you good people tell me the best time to prune it please?

 

I always do mine after the flowers finish, so usually in May. This gives it a chance to regrow and flower again next year. I find they grow very quickly.

 

Just did a quick internet search on the general advice on flowering currant pruning and most seem to suggest just after flowering. Not followed that advice myself and they still have been flowering well for me. I just took my pruning to be similar to what I read about currants grown for fruit and that advice was to thin out the branches in winter to allow air flow between the remaining ones to help with the healthy development of fruit.

The advantage of winter pruning when they are dormant is the branches taken out can be used to easily make new plants with hardwood cuttings. Must have about 20 now from the one I bought a few years back and only the least developed have not flowered well this year with no pruning or only slight winter pruning to take out a few inward growing branches to keep the centre of the oldest plant less cluttered.

Happy gardening!

 

I've got a big bush of this on the allotment, and its really more of a hedge rather than a shrubby bush.
So it gets the cut back with shears each year so as to stop it getting too big.

 

Thanks all. I'll opt to prune after flowering.