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  • From: Brian Pearson <bjpearson@centurytel.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Prunus serotina germination
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:47:01 -0500

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 09:32, tanis cuff wrote:

Clean the seeds as soon as the fruits are ripe and sow them outside ASAP with protection from rodents. Many Prunus have much better germination with a combination of warm stratification followed by cold stratification. If you plant the seeds as fruits ripen in summer or early in the fall, you should have good germination next spring. Cheers, Brian Pearson, northeastern WI, USDA Z4.

> I'm hoping to propagate a fairly nice P.serotina. I've collected about a
pint of fruit, and want to grow the seeds. Found some good info via
internet searches, but wonder if anyone has some helpful tips-- I've never
intentionally grown this before.

The State Forester told me that my forest would change from white oak
and red oak into black cherry and ash if nothing was done. The cherry
will grow in shade, unlike the oak. I have prunus serotina thickets all
through the forest.

One patch that was logged took about three years to turn into a cherry
thicket. The big problem is deer. The deer eat every twig they can
reach. So black cherry is a lot like any other fruit tree as far as deer
is concerned.

So, since cherry like these conditions so much, I would try a low pH
soil mixture and keep the seedlings out of direct sun. If using forest
soil isn't attractive, I've had good results using mycorhizal (sp?)
including one transplant that something half dug up one night that
survived anyway.

This is the first year I've been able to harvest any. Usually the fruit
is up at least 30-40 feet. I've got enough smaller trees growing that
the fruit is lower . . for now.
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Art Petrzelka
Amana, Iowa, USA

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