Jostaberry - Easy and Delicious
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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A look at a very exciting, easy to grow, and delicious fruit making plant... the Jostaberry. A hybrid between Black Currants and Gooseberries with the benefit of both! Really vigorous, easy to propagate and tolerant of a wide range of conditions, it's a real winner!
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I planted one of these in 2015 not knowing what it even tasted like and it's become maybe my favorite perennial fruit on my (portland oregon urban) property. Easier to manage than blackberries and just as vigorous and delicious!
I'm growing it in Portland to any tips??
They are delicios! And so uncomplicated. No predators so far. Easy to propagate. Go for it!
I've got them for years, and they are my favourite.
@MY DOG CAN PUT YOU IN A HEADLOCK I live in The Netherlands :)
@MY DOG CAN PUT YOU IN A HEADLOCK hahaha, nobody have to steal something from me. I have enough to share :) Besides the Jostaberry I have other too and fruit trees.. and 3 dogs :P
Love Your channel, And the cool vibe You give the show..
Keep at it!!
Just ordered a jostaberry from you this fall. Can’t wait to try it out!
I'm so glad you shared this with us. this sounds like a perfect berry for me to grow. tfs :-) Gabby
I ordered from you in fall and stuffed it into ground, one of first things to leaf out and is looking nice. Not sure how to fruit but exciting to watch. I knew nothing about them, but was something I didn’t have, like the thimbleberry. I thought they didn’t make it but just saw bud on them today.
Your garden is my kind of garden. I rarely see the type of garden I am trying to achieve. Experimental, propagation. Home garden, beauty. Thumbs up gardening friend.
why its an absolute mess totaly disorganized.
I’m adding some of these this year along with red and green gooseberries... can’t wait to taste the fruit.
I think you'll love it. Somewhere between a concord grape, a gooseberry and a black currant in flavor. And a beautiful, vigorous plant!
believe it, i will get some of those cuttings when you offer them. Thanks for sharing as always Sean, love your work.
.... had to fit 'stool layering' in there again... just as classic as the tit mouse reference lol
Yeah, I'm going to get organized on how much plant material I have and try to be ready to offer the cuttings for fall shipping. I have elderberries up on the website now and offer a mix of cuttings as a bundle for folks, I'm hoping to have enough of the josta and black currants to do that too! Hope your garden is going great this year!
Wonderful video. Just bought our bush. Alberta Canada 🇨🇦
I like to describe the flavor/mouthfeel as very similar to muscadine grape. Astringent on the outside, sweet and juicy in the middle. Makes me wonder what kind of wine/vinegar possibilities these berries have. And I bet they'd taste great dried! (i'm going to try that next, I think!)
Great description. Yeah, they are a lovely thing aren't they!?
I just bought two of these and will be planting them in zone 8B. Fingers crossed.
I feel confident you will have a wonderful time with them...
how'd that go for you? I'm in zone 8a and looking to get some cuttings in the ground this autumn/winter
I got a jostaberry earlier in the year. Put on a bunch of fruit. A bit tart, but tasty!
They are exciting I think. Now you can take cuttings this fall and really expand your planting if you wanted!
Very true! I actually took my first cutting as a test and it seems to have taken! Very excited to get these out of pots and into some hugelkultur (perhaps).
Very helpful. Nice plant!
Really great and interesting. I really like what you're doing with propagation. I'm doing much of the same with various berries here. Just bought one of these Jostaberry bushes for $5 on clearance. I don't like the taste of black currants but love gooseberries so I'm hoping that I might like the combination of both!
I think you'll be quite happy with the taste!
Sean, is it possible to root out cuttings now? How long do they take to begin rooting?
I’m doing some goji berries right now in water. They just started to get some new leaf growth. I’m excited!
I really want to try these
I hope you can!
Really interesting variety of fruit plant. Any other hybrids like this?
Not quite like josta! But there are other interesting hybrids out there, dwarf sour cherry comes to mind for sure...
There are some interesting Blackberry/Raspberry hybrids like Tayberry and Loganberry.
Thanks for sharing your video. My husband just had a package delivered containing three bare rooted, approximately four foot tall jostaberry plants. I am so glad you posted this information as I had no idea what they were. What spacing would you suggest? I like your idea of growing cuttings and having more jostaberry plants.
Do you bake with them as well as just pick and eat?
We have an allotment and also have six bare rooted autumn and six summer raspberries arriving in November.
We just mainly eat them as we don't have so so many as to have a need to process. We'll be changing that soon! :)
Enjoyed the video. How do you preserve so many berries? Freezing, canning and/or jams? Do you know if any of these berry plants can handle the heat and alkaline soil and water we have down here in central Texas?
I would think very hot would be quite rough for them, but I don't have any experience with that! You may want to look that up. We freeze a lot of berries to then process on the wood stove in the winter, and my wife makes a lot of jams.
Thank you. Very helpful and inspiring. Are Jostaberries as nutrient rich as currants?
I don't know, but I would suspect so since the flavor is similar and the color is super deep.
@@edibleacres Thank you for conscientiously responding to a question on a video that you made quite a while back. I also think that usually flavor and color (dark usually=anthocyanins, which we seek) indicate a lot about nutrient value. I am also curious about the light conditions that you suggest as best for them. We have one in rather deep shade under a Black Walnut where they has grown large but has never produced fruit. I plan to stool layer that plant, inspired by you, and put cuttings from it directly into the ground, as you suggest, in appropriate places, very soon (within days.) I am coming to see through experience here that Currants do best in rich moist soil with morning sun and no afternoon sun....I imagine that is where Jostaberries would do best as well. There are some of both plants in our community garden who do not seem to like full sun. I really appreciate how informative your videos are, clearly elucidating practical details that growers need to know, supported by photos directed precisely at the areas viewers need to see to understand the points that you are making. I wish you were in our ecosystem, as I would like to support you by ordering plants from you, but I really think that locally grown is best, in our case acclimated to mild, wet Portland, Oregon winters and dry summers. The summers are getting a lot hotter and drier very fast, and so I am doing all I can to maximize the health of our 1/4 acre permaculture food forest. I view that as critical. We live literally one mile from a very well established permaculture nursery that you are probably familiar with, and if not, I encourage you ro learn about them.... One Green World...a dream of ideal...we can have the holes dug for bare root plants and go and purchase them and put them into a bucket of water at One Green World, immediately after purchase, and have them in the ground right away!!!!! I am guessing that they do best if left in the bucket of water covering the roots for about 1-2 hours, to recover from the shock of having been dug from the ground minutes ago..... Oooh, I just had a better idea...put them in a bucket of appropriately diluted compost tea, innoculated with Effective Micro-organisms, with that water used to water them in after planting!!!!! Thank you for all your help and for being so very inspiring! More and more people are/will be listening to you, and that will play a big role in our healing our species and Mother Earth :) Blessings Always to you and your loved ones :)
@@edibleacres how much are your plants and can I get them now, or when do they ship?
Interesting fruit, thanks for sharing. We're just about to plant out a whole lot of bare rooted raspberry plants. Any tips you can suggest re soil prep etc? Greetings from South Australia by the way. Love your channel 🌞
They all like rich soil, so a nice dressing of compost around the plants and deep mulch is always appreciated by them.
Thank you so much, I will be sure to do just that. Cheers, Aaron.
Love 'em! Here in the UK I have to put a net over them to keep the pigeons off!
Barry Patterson Do your jostaberrys fruit? here in Ireland mine haven't yet, during their 2nd summer. It has grown very strongly.
Did they fruit in the end?
@@manjichromagnon5480 Gosh, I never saw these comments. Yes, they fruit well. I make wine with them!
Love your videos.. but one humble advice, I think it's time for you to invest in a good camera with decent image stabilization. I'm not sure what camera (phone) you are using currently but a lot of times as you walk, the video quality is very poor and does not stabilize, out of focus with a lot of shaking. Maybe a Canon 70D, 80D or G7X would be perfect for your vlogs... Again I love your content and the information you put out. Keep up the good work.
Reasonable feedback for sure. The thing is, I am able to make these videos on a hand-me-down old iphone that someone was getting rid of. To buy new digital equipment would go against my ethics for this channel, so some day when the phone finally dies I'll upgrade, but for now I'll try to take more stable shots. I used to let youtube stabilize the video but people didn't like that either, so oh well! Not a professional video maker by ANY stretch! :) Hopefully the content is worth the shaking...
I respect your ethics and frugal ways... I see that in your videos and character. Keep up the good work, every video is full of good info... God bless.
Life From Nature - Healthy & Sustainable Living -Always a complainer in the group...😒
was looking for pruning advice for Jostaberry. I noticed your video that originally persuaded me to buy some cuttings from you. it's hard not to buy stuff from you when you lead your jostaberry introduction with " it's very very exciting...". SOLD! lol
If Sean says a plant is very very exciting I'm pretty sure I'm going to like the qualities of it as well. I put the cuttings in in the fall of 2019 I believe and they are about 5 feet tall right now and the base is about 2 or 3 inches in diameter. They didn't flower this year but it was a whacky year this year with some plants bolting a month ahead of time and other strange things with the freakish drought that never happens out here.
I'm guessing if I prune them a bit, and put a nice helping of my black gold roughly finished compost mulch from my chickens, they'll be loaded next year hopefully. Anyway have you done a pruning video on these? or any advice or resources you found that taught you the best way to prune them? Anyway thanks for any info you can provide.
We haven't done any videos on pruning/shaping them but I would suggest making sure they are 100% dormant and then focusing on older wood that is 'internal' or crossing and won't get a lot of light... Open them up so to speak, and make sure you take the cuttings and plant them!
@@edibleacres So they are not like black currants where you prune the stems that have borne berries right down to the ground and keep the new season's growth for next year's fruit?.
Do you think these would be good in planters? Like large planters? And pruning them back every winter?? Thanks
I think that is a possibility. I am not sure how well it would work but it is something you can try for sure, doesn't seem fully unreasonable at all
nice
The listings on the website mention what you have for 2015. Is there a current listing of what's available? I'd like to pick these up in addition to Sea Buckthorn :)
I just edited that, thanks for the heads up. That list is pretty accurate for current availability as well. Sea buckthorn should be available this fall depending on how the rest of the growing season goes. Keep in touch for sure!
I would like to order a few Jostaberry plants.
Wonderful! We plan to offer more in the spring on March 1st, or at least have many cuttings availale
@@edibleacres Cancell that order, they cause blight in out area and do not do so well.
Would these grow in zone 8? Acidic soil?
I don't know but I would think its quite possible!
I have a question I bought a quote quote tree if you could call it 1 from a feed store and I'm new to all of this and it was just a stick. And my boyfriend told me today and it's been planted about 2 months now that it was cut on both sides with no roots. It was planted anyway will it ever do anything or is it just hopeless?
Always hopeful. Treat it like it is alive and can do it and you never know.
does jostaberry bushes grow quicker then black and red currant and gooseberry bushes?
They grow just a bit faster in ideal conditions... They are very vigorous plants for sure.
will you be offering these this fall or next spring?
Yes :)
We renew inventory on September 1st and then again March 1st.
so how do you tell the difference between a black currant and a jostaberry?
The flavor is different between them for sure.
What makes them fruit? I have two in different areas. One grows like 4’ a year but doesn’t fruit (it set one berry this year, then dropped it), the other barely grows but has heavy fruit sets. What is their ideal condition?
I wish I could tell you! They feel a bit variable to me. Some years is a heavy crop, some light. I think they may be pulse cropping plants, not super even. You may want to get more cuttings going to smooth out that curve a bit.
@@edibleacres Thank you. I'm going to plant cuttings from each plant in the opposite location to see if genetics or location are the sole factor. I'll keep spreading them around and eventually I'll have more than the squirrels and I can eat.
Can you advise on pruning please?
Cut 3 year old or older branches out late winter
I have one but it's only 4 ft tall, it's on second year. Do you think there is different varieties?
That sounds right for just getting started with it. There are different varieties so it makes sense there would be different sizes. Mine gets large but yours may not.
Thanks for the answer, I'll keep an eye on it ;-)
Are there different varieties of Jostaberries?
I believe there are some different named types out there.
How is the pectin content for jelly and jam?
I can't say for sure, but it seems quite like a gooseberry so I'd presume it would work well for it.
Blablabla jostaberry!
Which variety of Jostaberry is this?
I got cuttings from someone way long ago, so I'm not sure.
Unfortunately I haven't had luck with this.... The deer just destroy them. Maybe if I was able to get more of them.
Josta je omiljeno voće Srba!
Funny that you also call them "Josta" in english. It is made up of the german name combination of the parent species: currant = JOhannisbeere and gooseberries = STAchelbeere -> JOSTA :)
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Hybrid? Can't believe you're promoting GMOs.
Are you joking? I can't tell... Hybrid doesn't mean GMO
How do you hybridize two organisms without modifying them genetically?
Imagine it this way... A hybrid is similar to two people that have good traits that if they had a child the child would have both of those good traits. Jostaberry being the child of a good black currant and good gooseberry, mated together intentionally and the seed saved and grown out.
GMO is more similar to saying "Hey, that woman has good traits/characteristics, and that fish has good characteristics, lets take their genetics, extract them, and force them to merge using equipment and chemicals. That'll be good."
Pretty different!
I would read this: www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/hybrid-seeds-vs-gmos-zb0z1301zsor
Nah, I don't read fake "motherearthnews", I believe in real science, and you're full of shit. A hybrid is genetically modified. Just admit that the retarded hippie definition of GMO is arbitrary and most foods are GMOs, and there's nothing wrong with that. Bye, sweetie.
Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful and VERY useful comment. Really appreciate you taking the time, it was helpful having this conversation with you. I now realize I'm full of shit and that GMOs are wonderful. Who'd of thought I'd learn something so deep from Your Wife's Boyfriend.