Cheap fruit bushes from poundland- dead?

Uther

I bought a mixture of fruit bushes from poundland, blackcurrant, rasberry, Goosberry etc.

I had them in the ground about 3 weeks, but only 2 of them out of 9 have shoots.

The rest just look like sticks - sticking out of the ground.
Are they dead or should I be patient. How long should it take for them to produce any growth?

Thanks

Prudent

I got three fruit bushes from poundland last year. None survived, despite everything else in the graden growing well.

tim_n

Gotta make sure they've got leaves on them when you buy them. Don't buy sticks!

Each one I've bought has done fine, but you've got to get to them before the shops kill them.

shandypants5

I got my cheap blackcurrant bushes from Aldi.
All 6 have leaves on now but one is really racing ahead of the others.

I would have thought you would have at least some shoots by now.

starjumper

Last year we bought some fruit bushes from Aldi, all were just sticks and looked very unpromising but they look cracking now and looks like we'll have a couple of fruit puds this year from the garden, don't give up just yet, leave them be and see how they get on.

brownfrog

I bought 3 this year. 2 had leaves on and are doing fine, the third had none, but I bought it anyway because it was an unusual variety - I did have a look at the roots and they were fine, so I planted it and it's just started shooting now.

Kaz2904

I bought one last year, it looked awful. It was like a dead stick for ages and then it just popped some leaves out. This year I may get some fruit but more likely next year.

RAS

hi

Wait a while longer. A lot of these pound shops, lidl, aldi and Wilko plants are very badly treated and some are well dead before they leave the shop. But fruit bushes are more resistant. keep the plants well watered in dry weather and they may come through later.

JodyBPM

I bought some gooseberries and blackcurrants last year from poundland, and pretty much wrote them off as dead, as they didn't do anything last year, but this year they've come out with leaves etc. Not sure I'd exactly call them thriving, but they're definately still alive! I can see 2 small gooseberries on one bush! I'd leave them, and see if they perk up next year. Might be a year or two before you get any crop to speak of, but still...for £1!

ellie14

I bought mine from netto and Aldi have to ay only a few sprouting , think I will stick with better quality next time ,get what you pay for and a quicker fruit yield !

purple_spider

I bought a blackcurrant one & rasberry one from wilkos for £1 each and planted them in a bucket and put them in the greenhouse for about month or so before putting them outside. They had a few small leaves on their sticks when I bought them, but after the time in the greenhouse seemed to be going great guns and so I planted them outside (After aclimatising them) they've been out for about a month now and seem pretty happy. I don't know if thats the right thing to do, or if they just liked being in the warm for a while, since they were used to being in the shop, and were just happy to have some light and a good drink - as the soil was crumbly and dry when I bought them.