Red Currant Junifer Ribes rubrum Red Currants - Pot Grown

Ribes rubrum Red Currant Junifer Pot Grown

Red currant Junifer is a good, high yielding red currant from France.  It will crop on both one- and two-year-old wood providing yields immediately after planting.  Ideal for freezing or picked from the bush. 

Junifer is considered an early ripening red currant with fruit on long trusses.  It has good disease resistance and is perfect for jams and jellies.

Common Name: Red Currant, Ribes, Junifer

Genus: Ribes           

Species:  rubrum

Variety:  Junifer

Skill Level:  Beginner

Type:  Pot Grown, 3 litre, caned

Size:  40/60cm

Rate of Growth:  Average, Upright growth habit

Crops:  Good yields, Red translucent berries or fruit.  Crops on one and two year wood

Crop Month:  Mid summer.  Early ripening.  Harvest late June

Flavour:  Sweet, fruit size large

Planting Location:  Full sun for best fruiting, well draining, neutral to slight acid soils.  Keep area free of weeds, other plants

Planting Distance:  45cm apart in rows 1.2m apart

Soil Type:  Tolerates almost all soil types, moist , well-draining.

pH:  neutral

Fertilise:   Rootgrow upon initial planting and thereafter

Hardiness:  Hardy

Height: 1.5m after 10 years

Spread:  1.5m