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Sat, Oct 5, 13 at 11:42
| Will any of the bush cherries work in South Carolina, high heat and humidity with 600 chill hours? Looking at the romance series, joy, jan, joel and nanking. |
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- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (johnbuettner@hotmail.com) on Sun, Oct 6, 13 at 20:25
| I have all of that list in my zone 7b (Raleigh NC) garden. Only the Nanking is reliable but the fruit is tiny. The bush cherries Romance series are so cute in bloom that I can't bear to dig them up and toss them out but it has been years since I've had a decent crop off of them. They suffer from some sort of rot disease that affects the leaves and the fruit. They only taste like cherries when they are just about to rot and fall off the branch. Otherwise they taste like wild plums to me. Nankings have a great flavor but the berries on mine are about the size of a green garden pea. I have a pure species P. jaquemontii (or however the cross is named in that series) and it hates living here in this humidity. I also have two of those newer crosses - Carmine Jewel and something Passion - only one of them is happy and I don't know which one. It will be a few years before it is big enough to fruit. |
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| You're going to have a hard time growing cherries in SC. We have too much heat and humidity for them. |
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| I have a Lapins cherry I was hoping would work here with proper care but it has not and will be removed. John, sounds like the nanking is similar in size to the native wild cherry, does it taste like like it? |
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- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (johnbuettner@hotmail.com) on Tue, Oct 8, 13 at 13:15
| The only wild cherry I have around me is Chokecherry which has that Black Cherry flavor you find in candy or sodas (if you add a lot of sugar to it, otherwise it is too harsh). So far Dwarf Northstar, Kristin and Danube have survived for me but all are too young to fruit. They have bloomed though and maybe next year will be my first for fruit. I had a Ranier but it died in its first summer, which was a mild and cool one - go figure! |
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| My Northstar produced a couple gallons this last year and the worms don't like them. I was quite happy with them and am thawing out a quart of them for a cherrry pie. My other tart cherries, mt morency, were bug magnets and only got to eat a few. They taste better, though, but not by much. |
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