California Rare Fruit Growers organization offers this comment:
Propagation: Currant seeds germinate if stratified for three to four months at temperatures just above freezing. Seedlings are prolific and do not vary much from parent. Bushes grown from seed bear when two or three years old.
See the entire article [url=https://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/currants.html]here[/url].
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