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Black Currant planting

grown by shadawyn in Berry Walk · Renton, WA

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No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 12 years ago 2014-02-15

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 bare root plant

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bare root plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Renton, WA New

Daily high and low
Too cold for black currant so farFrom Feb 15 to Jul 30, 59 of 166 days had a high inside the best range of 17–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 89 days and above the best range on 18 days. The weather was too hot on 2 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 52 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 17–25°
Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on July 30, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
680 mm
Hottest day
30.8°C
Coldest night
-0.7°C
Soil temperature
12.6°C
Days in its best range
59 of 166
Days
166

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

Planted near the back fence.

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Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

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    Planted

Frost may have reached this black currant planting

19 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.7 °C.

This black currant planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-0.7 °C
2.7 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
82 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 7 May
Usual last frost
22 Apr
planted 66 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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Crop

Photo of black currant

Black Currant

Ribes spp.

  • 9 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 5319 days after planting
  • Usually grown in semi-shade