The ones i dug up from the parking area, i guess you could say were in there 1st year. Im pretty sure i had them in 4 gal pots for at least 2 more years before they bloomed.
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As of tonight I can provide a review that blended Seaberry plus Red Currant did NOT taste good.
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I found seaberry juice in combination with one of the other orange juices/nectars (orange, apricot, mango) to be very good.
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The international market sells āYanā (Armenian brand) Seaberry + Peach + Apple juice. It has a mellower flavor, but loses the unique intensity of pure Seaberry.
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Ben Falk makes sea berry oxymel, which is sea berry juice, vinegar, and honey. They seem to go through a lot of it, maybe that will balance some of the strong tastes.
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The idea of using an oxymel throughout the year is very intriguing. Since I have both dried and frozen a stock of Titan Im going to be experimenting with different blends. Iāll keep you postedā¦
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This year I added sea buckthorn to an autumn olive (sieved) jam and I loved it. The autumn olives are so productive and much easier to pick, so they provide the bulk. And the sea buckthorn adds what I would describe as a tropical flavour, a bit like passion fruit, and a nice kick. Here on the Dutch coast, where sea buckthorn is very common in the wild, it is easy to grow the autumn olive yourself and forage the sea buckthorn, but I guess it is the other way round in a lot of places in the US!
Edit: chek out the funky colours of the juice 
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If anyone has bushes large enough to send me hardwood cuttings or suckers Id be willing to trade for them. PM me and we can work something out. Id like to get enough to start maybe 5 bushes of each variety including a male for pollination. Sounds like they are supposed to root fairly reliably from hardwood cuttings according to the info AI gave me. PM if you are able to help out! Thanks much
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I wish I could help you out. Recent flooding here hit my new plantings hard. In fact some are still under water.
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I would like to grow sea buckthorns here but our soil is heavy clay. Does anyone have experience growing them in clay soil?
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They do grow in clay here, although they probably do best on sandy soils. My advice would be to mound plant, and to use a lot of organic mulch on top to improve soil structure and drainage over time, while reducing erosion of your mound. If you make a mound, you could even use the hole you created to make a nice pond or to plant fruits like haskaps that actually like more moisture. 
Mound planting has also kept lavender plants happy on my heavy clay soil, but there Iāve incorporated some grit while building up the mound. If your garden isnāt too big, I think making some height differences can be wonderful, because it creates a diversity of habitats, for plants and wildlife.
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Mine were only planted last spring, so I canāt speak to long-term health as of yet, but I now have 10 sea buckthorn planted into a clay hill. The bare root plants put on branches, and the plugs put on branches and approx 12-18ā of height since spring. Iāll provide an update when things are a bit warmer than -45C.
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I want to experiment grafting seaberry onto things like autumn olive, eventually, to see if that is possible.
Our garden is on a hillside so we already have quite some height difference. Our lowest part of the garden has ground water levels at soil level during winter, so I made raised beds there for my blueberries. Elderberries might also do well there.
Sea buckthorn would be planted somewhere uphill. Glad to know that clay soil doesnāt necessarily kill them. I will give it a chance in a raised bed with lots of compost and sand if I can find some plants or cuttings here in Portugal. 
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