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| In zone 3 it's not easy to grow sweet cherries, most often flower buds will die off in winter. I now grow them low to the ground and hope for snow cover. I was lucky this past winter, all of the new growth looked good and got some cherries, these are Stella.
Evans pie cherry is pretty vigorous, perhaps it can make a good dwarfing tree or shrub, so far so good. |
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| Keep working at it Konrad.We need sweet cherries.Good luck. |
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- Posted by northernmn 3/4 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 24, 11 at 16:32
| Excellent Konrad ! The cherries pictured are the Stellas that were grown on Evan's root stock I take it? When you say "low to the ground" , how tall is the plant in the picture? How old from the graft date? Do you think that a Carmine Jewel would work for the root stock as well? Will you need to prune it hard to keep it "low to the ground"? We all enjoy when you push the envelope like this. |
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- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Sun, Jul 24, 11 at 23:17
| Thank you all! This is the 3rd. season after the graft onto Evans about 6 inches off the ground. It was a new sucker from the old tree near the trunk. The new shoot I bent down about 10 to 20 inch from the ground, you can weigh it down a bit more come winter and bring it up in the growing season. I haven't pruned it yet..we'll see what's doing next year, with good snow cover it should have a larger crop, this way I think it will be more predictable then heaving the tree grow up and expose it to the element of harsh winter. No hardy sweet cherries yet for zone 3 or colder, I'm still testing some from Europe. |
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| I think the idea of saving fruit buds by insulation and using the grounds natural heat is a great idea worth investing in. There is another method I think is worth looking into: |
Here is a link that might be useful: 'UFO' For Cherries, A new training system may be unknown to most growers, but it shows promise.
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- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 20:17
| With hardly any snow cover this winter it doesn't look good with fruit this year. |
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