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[Brian Pearson <bjpearson@centurytel.net>]

> 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.
> --
> -----
> Art Petrzelka
> Amana, Iowa, USA
>
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