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Lookin good man, nice fleshy green 
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shrub ID.
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Nonsense Rascal
Interesting. The sacrifice Grows, and the tiny stays tiny.
Is well.
Sorce
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Leo in N E Illinois
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No doubt at all, it's one species or another of Ribs. If the berries feel smooth, it's a current. If berries feel rough, hairs on the ribs of the fruit, it's a good berry.
Taste the fruit. All Ribes are edible, some are more edible than others, but none are poisonous. Fuzzy photo and all, I'm pretty sure it is a Ribes alpinum - Alpine currant. Flavor of berries is described as insipid, meaning, lacking flavor. So if they have no tartness, or other flavors of note, it is alpinum.
Less likely is Ribes triste, berries are small, red and quite tart. Leaf serrations are more pointy, but not much more pointy, a plausible ID.
It also could be a wild form of Ribes hirtellum, this should have a tart flavor with a hint of some fruity flavors.
Taste the fruit. All Ribes are edible, some are more edible than others, but none are poisonous. Fuzzy photo and all, I'm pretty sure it is a Ribes alpinum - Alpine currant. Flavor of berries is described as insipid, meaning, lacking flavor. So if they have no tartness, or other flavors of note, it is alpinum.
Less likely is Ribes triste, berries are small, red and quite tart. Leaf serrations are more pointy, but not much more pointy, a plausible ID.
It also could be a wild form of Ribes hirtellum, this should have a tart flavor with a hint of some fruity flavors.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Cut off the taper maker, the girth burger, the cake.....
Trying to root it.
This is the smallest pot I got.
But I reckon its way too big!
Cut back to proper nexts.
Kinda easy to see which buds are going to make big wonkers like the other.
Being that this didn't deciduize last winter....Im counting on it growing well into fall.
Hoping to use this period to even out that transition.
Bud knocking certain!
Oh, and I want to make sure this heals over smooth, so I pasted it and taped it.
Ugly till it's pretty!
Sorce
Trying to root it.
This is the smallest pot I got.
But I reckon its way too big!
Cut back to proper nexts.
Kinda easy to see which buds are going to make big wonkers like the other.
Being that this didn't deciduize last winter....Im counting on it growing well into fall.
Hoping to use this period to even out that transition.
Bud knocking certain!
Oh, and I want to make sure this heals over smooth, so I pasted it and taped it.
Ugly till it's pretty!
Sorce
defra
Masterpiece
Nice!
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I updated the tags with proper ID info.
Hopefully people search and try these because the other day, I dropped a 3/4 full gl water bottle right on this...
I think it tore the small branch right above the cut I just made...
And this thing didn't notice....
3 brown leaves I've found.
Here it is just before the hit...
I took these pics to make notes on how these buds go from green, to red/brown, when they almost look dead, until you see the red leaf come out...
I almost cut em off at that brown stage! Oops!
I'll show you what it looks like today about four or five days after I smashed it.
Sorce
Hopefully people search and try these because the other day, I dropped a 3/4 full gl water bottle right on this...
I think it tore the small branch right above the cut I just made...
And this thing didn't notice....
3 brown leaves I've found.
Here it is just before the hit...
I took these pics to make notes on how these buds go from green, to red/brown, when they almost look dead, until you see the red leaf come out...
I almost cut em off at that brown stage! Oops!
I'll show you what it looks like today about four or five days after I smashed it.
Sorce
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Gangster!
Sorce
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
This thing was flopping around above the tape when it got hit with the water bottle.
It's right rigid already, healing fabulously, and the transition is looking great!
Found a cheater view that's pretty nice!
Round a bit.
Last time I checked on the cinch it wasn't looking the greatest, but....
If at first you don't succeed...
Sorce
It's right rigid already, healing fabulously, and the transition is looking great!
Found a cheater view that's pretty nice!
Round a bit.
Last time I checked on the cinch it wasn't looking the greatest, but....
If at first you don't succeed...
Sorce
defra
Masterpiece
Nice dude!
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Thanks! It's a bitchin plant!
I wonder if you guys don't have some old hedgerows of it.
Hey...I hit up one of my good old friends on the Book...
He moved out there!
Rick Cruz..Cruz Amplification, great dude. Sick tone!
Vibes and Ribes!
Sorce
gallina1594
Shohin
This is why I love to collect little seedlings!
1. You more than likely will learn a new type of native or invasive plant if you collect stuff around your home
2. Within a few years, you can have a beautiful mame that you watched and developed from nothing... To something!
1. You more than likely will learn a new type of native or invasive plant if you collect stuff around your home
2. Within a few years, you can have a beautiful mame that you watched and developed from nothing... To something!
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Love this plant.
Sorce
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Haha! I reliked that! Unliked...oops! Reliked!
What!?
Lol!
That long top cutting I took rooted, its pushing buds, straight as an arrow and about 10 inches tall.
This thing...
This is the first winter it stopped growing and dropped all its leaves. Ish!
Grew a bit in February...
It grows layers like a Dracaena quick to cause a natural reverse taper at new growth areas...
But most of these big shoots can be cut back to a much smaller proper nexts....
Correct timing and they stay small...
Too soon and they grow big for energy.
Too late and the big shoot causes reverse taper swell ugly.
I think I will let it run free this year...
See if I can't get it to heal and thicken, and allow for some evening-out with free growth.
If it gets nasty I'll just whack it back to one leader and start over.
Hopefully getting lower branches, especially around that cut...
Anyway....this remains my kind of plant...
Still showing nothing but promise and tough as nails...
With this red growth...
This...
Raised up enough for this...
To work as an accent sporting some of this..
Dripping down the side To a small jita..
And this is going to go thru phases of excellent and more excellent...
In a right small space!
I think well ramified....and naked, with the slightest red leaf tips...and the spring reddening of this accent plant ....
This dance of red in spring...with no other textures or colors being the same..on a nice DARK...MS Stand!
This..."useable size" container shit really pisses me off...lol! But really...
I got a goal to make these tiny displays so Furking dope that they can be put right among the big collected conifers and command more attention.
#gosmall
Sorce
Cosmos
Shohin
pbrown00
Mame
Source, I think I may have a similar, if not identical shrub. I don't have I.D on it, so I'm wondering what you think.
This is it around mid-March of this year.
Here it is now: It has some tiny thorns on it. Does yours have thorns?
This is it around mid-March of this year.
Here it is now: It has some tiny thorns on it. Does yours have thorns?
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Ok...not much growth..but right growth!
I'll update soon.
I think some have thorns...but I am not sure. ..looks like a fun plant anyway!
Sorce
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Stepped outside to 42F sunny t-shirt and sandals weather! Glad so, I had to water.
Haven't watered since October 1ish Ice since early November.
This thing Purdy as ever!
Sorce
Haven't watered since October 1ish Ice since early November.
This thing Purdy as ever!
Sorce
pbrown00
Mame
Have we figured out what this tree is? The leaves look like a cross between field maple and hawthorn. It looks great though!
