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  • From: "fuwa fuwa usagi" <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
  • To: "mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] Now: Northstar cherries - Was: Saving cherries from the birds
  • Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:27:42 -0800

Betsy,

I have been growing Northstars for about 20 years now...

They are very attractive landscape trees.

You can easily hold them at 6 feet so they can be netted completely. I
suggest you prune to a classic vase shape with 4 main scaffolds.

The are susceptible to brown rot, although I usually do not spray for it as I
have enough trees that I still get enough fruit. Also if you train as I
suggested you can mitigate it through cultural practices as well as the
application of a box fan after it rains etc.

There appears to be strains out there also, with some with larger fruit than
others.

They hang well on the tree, and I harvest mine for weeks and week sat all
stages of ripeness. But if you let them stay on the tree for along, long
time they will become very dark and sweeten up some, becoming a delicious
sweet-tart.

I usually spray mine once for PC, and that is all they need to keep the PC
off them. I pit all mine etc, and now and then there is a larvae in there
but it is very, very rare for me. So one spray it is.

Kindest regards...

the fluffy bunny



--- ehilborn@mebtel.net wrote:

From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 06:58:44 -0500

I have nothing to measure yet. My tree is not bearing. They will be
North Star 'sour' cherries.

I would imagine they will be smaller than the sweet store bought Bing
cherries. Does anyone have experience with this variety?

Betsy


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