If they are only showing tiny bits of green on the leaf buds they will handle 27*F no problem. I suspect they could handle 10*F no problem. Don't forget that these can handle -40*F to -50F when fully dormant.

Impressive that your CJ is almost 7' tall, after planting a tiny seedling just 3 years ago. Is it producing fruit yet? (I have some of the Romance series plus a CJ that I planted in 2011, and they have only produced a tiny amount of fruit so far... here's hoping for this year!)

Thanks don555, I think I just got a little worried with the new plants leaving their little pots and having their first night out being a bit brisk. But I bet you're right, I mean I know how cold-hardy these are when established, but don't know a lot about what happens as they come out of dormancy and all that, when they're just pups.

When I got up a little after 6 a.m., my indoor/outdoor showed 30.5 degrees, so maybe it didn't get to 27 after all. So I went out and checked the one that I'd put a thermometer in and it showed 35 degrees in there!

But yeah, the growth rate of the CJ's is impressive to me. I don't have a picture of when they were first planted in '11, but I have a shot of them in June of '12.

In the first picture they're all in their own cages before I fenced them in. But the three on the left were the ones planted in '11.

There were four originally but one died and Gurney's sent two replacements.

So the two at the top in line with the bigger one were planted in April of '12, and as you can see just from April to when this was taken in June they'd leafed and grown quite a bit.

The next shot is just for perspective, in relation to the Early Richmond next to them in '12.

Then a couple pictures from yesterday, one with the tape measure, and then a close up of the tape measure numbers. 79â from tip to tape measure then 3â for that and itâÂÂs at 6âÂÂ10âÂÂ.

From all I gather, I should not expect my new CP's to maybe get off to as good a start as the CJ's, but that's not huge to me, so long as they survive me!!!

Oh and on the question on if I got fruit, I had a few but maybe less than 50 or so. There were a lot more green cherries to start with but they didn't hang on. Only the larger two bushes had fruit, not enough to do anything with, but I was still like a proud papa!

This post was edited by iowajer on Thu, Apr 17, 14 at 9:52

I thought I had multiple pictures posting figured out, but apparently not! They were all there in the preview, just not now on the actual post so I'll put them each on one-by-one (Where's my son when I need him?!?!?)

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