[NAFEX] cherries
6ducks at fuse.net
6ducks at fuse.net
Thu Oct 27 13:44:47 EDT 2005
Whether cherries are easier than apples is also highly weather dependent. Here in southern Ohio I cannot grow cherries because I get consistently late frosts; apples, on the other hand, do quite well. Someone can correct me on this one, but cherries might also require more chill hours, whereas different apple cultivars can be found to use in either low or high chill areas.
Cherries (trees, not just the fruit) are also subject to some fungal diseases here that would make them riskier than apples.
Further, apples are available on such a wide variety of rootstocks that soil types and tree size can be adapted to quite well, perhaps to a larger degree than to cherries.
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