[NAFEX] Pollinating Prunus
Melissa Kacalanos
mijwiz at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 12 11:55:42 EST 2010
In general, different species don't pollinate each other. Apricots and Asian or American plums could pollinate each other if they bloomed at the same time, but apricots generally bloom earlier than plums, so they usually don't get an opportunity to pollinate each other.
Plums are complicated, since there are several different Asian and American species that generally can all pollinate each other. There are also a lot of hybrid cultivars for cold climates that are crosses between Asian and American species. However, these hybrids generally can't pollinate anything else. It's recommended that you have a pure American plum to pollinate them.
Here's a very interesting article from the University of Saskatchewan on the pollination of cold-hardy plums:
http://www.usask.ca/agriculture/plantsci/dom_fruit/articles/plums.doc
Sour cherries are generally self-pollinating. I think sweet cherries don't pollinate anything else.
Melissa
--- On Fri, 3/12/10, Dan Nave <nave1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Dan Nave <nave1 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Pollinating Prunus
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
> I plan to plant several fruit trees
> of the genus Prunus. Some are
> described as being self-pollinating and some self-sterile.
>
> My question is, can these trees pollinate each other even
> if they are
> not of the same species (not sure if this is the correct
> term)? Can an
> apricot or cherry pollinate a plum, etc?
>
> Dan
>
> Minnesota, zone3-4 depending upon how you look at it...
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