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The only real insect problem I have in Colo. is BIRDS.
Greg Jordan
Zone / 5
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:49
PM
Subject: [NAFEX] "Sour Chari" and
"CKVL#1": Joe Brown
Joe Brown,
You mention that in Kentucky, "Sour Chari" and "CKVL#1" have "no major
insect or disease problems".
I find this fascinating because the two sour
cherries I have grown in the past, Montmorency and North Star, both had major
insect problems, I mean I could not get any fruit at all without plenty of
insecticide spraying. Since I have no time anymore for spraying, I'm asking
for clarification, are you getting these cherries without any spraying?
Let me expand the question to others, is ANYBODY getting cherries
without spraying? I have heard the statement made that a very small cherry
will be unbothered because the cherry is too small for the insect to get into
and lay eggs there's not enough room in the fruit to receive an egg deposit.
Therefore, while we would all like big juicy cherries, is it possible for us
to "settle" on a cherry variety that yields small fruit, but does not need
spraying? And if it is possible for us to settle for us to "settle" on a
small-cherry variety, is there any high-yielding small-cherry variety
propagated? Or a specific strain grown from seed that will throw a cherry tree
yielding small cherries?
Charlie Paradise
zone 5 / Massachusetts
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at
08:29 AM, Brown, Joe R wrote:
You wrote:
A
while back someone posted a method to access the Hidden Springs
nursery
catalog online and I noticed that Hidden Springs offer two sour
cherries
on Mahaleb rootstock (which I can't use). These two varieties
were
"Sour Chari" and "CKVL#1". Both were listed for zones 4-8. I
searched
around and couldn't find out anything worthwhile about either
of
these. Does anyone have additional information about either of these
two
varieties? Rodney in zone 4
My
response:
Rodney,
I
have CKVL#1. I got it 2 years ago – no major insect or disease
problems. It does get powdery mildew. I have not tasted the
cheeries but I may get some this year. Post your question again
this summer and I can tell you how they
taste.
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