Maybe next year we can talk about scion swap for Evans Bali. I would offer to swap a bareroot grafted North Star cherry but I'm putting them on mazzard root stocks. Mazzard is only good reliable USDA zone 4.
I will be more than happy to send you Evans Bali seeds. Nothing expected in return. They bloom later than the other cherries and are unlikely to get hybridized.Maybe next year we can talk about scion swap for Evans Bali. I would offer to swap a bareroot grafted North Star cherry but I'm putting them on mazzard root stocks. Mazzard is only good reliable USDA zone 4.
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It would be an interesting experiment to graft North Star and Montmorency onto Evan Bali root stocks and see if they survives the winter. Cold hardness has a lot to do with roots and also the variety to. If your Evan Bali are doing well for you, it might be cherry root stock go to for your local area.
Just an update on the March 10th "Science Experiment" all 6 grafts have taken and the tree has basicly exploded with new branch growth. The granny smith graft is showing off flowering, which I find truely fascinating. It's late for flowering, all my other apples have finished flowering, so i'm not expecting any granny smith apples unless a bee find a late bloom season crab apple and finds the granny smith apple blossom. But with all the new branches growing that means more potential graft points for new yearThen tank and I whip and tongue grafted this M111 rootstock that I air-layed two years ago. Then planted in the early spring last year and pruned to grow multiple branches. We grafted 6 varieties of apple, from scions I harvested back in February, for a apple fruit salad tree.
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I believe we did good work, but we'll see how many take.
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I have Evans Bali on its own roots and grafted on dwarfing roots. I see no difference in how well each do.
Garfield Plantation sells out very quickly in the fall. It is an interesting cherry sold on its own root and produces a nice sized cherry with a fair amount of yellow on it when ripe. I have no problem eating tart cherries straight off of the tree and it is one of the better ones to eat that way.
Tart or pie cherry I suppose is what they call a subspecies of cherry. Some tart cherry varieties are sweeter than sweet cherries. So the names sweet and tart or pie don't apply uniformly.
Hi there, I used to be in your camp until I was greatly disappointed with seedling results.
All my "soil" is loose, I live on a sand dune. Regular watering is required to keep anything alive.Tart or pie cherry I suppose is what they call a subspecies of cherry. Some tart cherry varieties are sweeter than sweet cherries. So the names sweet and tart or pie don't apply uniformly.
From my experience, cherry trees are almost as hard as peach trees to get established, they need loose soil around the roots 2 to 3 times the diameter of the root ball and regular watering. Once established though, they seem to grow very well.
It's interesting to me to read of your challenges for the zone your in.
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My experience has been entirely different. My parents grew most of our trees from seed. They gave away cherry, plum and peach seedlings, and many of those trees are still producing, or their descendants are.Hi there, I used to be in your camp until I was greatly disappointed with seedling results.
Most stone fruits will grow "close" to being true to seed. Prome (apples & pears) will not grow anywhere close to being true to seed. That said, I do however have a contender peach chance seedling that produces good quaility peaches for canning but not so much for fresh eating because they lack the size and melting flesh appeal. I'm giving the tree one more year (this year) with hopes it will produce better quality peaches. If not I will probably graft on reliance or frost proof peach on to it because its roots are well established and vigorous. Not sure about almonds, i'm not much of a fan of almonds, I prefer pecans and walnuts.
But then again growing out a chance seedling may produce a new wonderful variety or not. That's why the refer to it as a chance seedling.
Grafting a known variety with desirable characteristics onto a root stock also with desirable characteristics produces consistent results, many years sooner than most seedlings do.
I hope you have success and who knows you may have a new wonderful variety just waiting to be discovered amongst your seedlings
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