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Field note · February 2025

black currants waking up under grow lights

Oak Summit Nursery · Southern Manitoba

black currants waking up under grow lights. It's late Februrary, and these are hardwood cuttings that arrived over the winter, carefully rooted in controlled conditions and then moved under grow lights. Sometimes the only way to collect a new cultivar is through these dormant cuttings, and in a couple of years once they're established that can become stock plants for softwood propagation.