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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cherries
  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:47:51 EDT

Dear Doreen,

My experience is very limited because of my heavy clay soil which most cherry rootstocks would rather die than live in. I do have a sour & sweet on MxM 60 rootstock that seems to do better than either Mazzard or Mahaleb. In your article if you haven't considered, that should be an important part. ROOTSTOCK!

With that said I have successfully kept a Galixy sweet cherry now for 10+ years on MXM 60 and is 20 feet high and produces heavy crops of cherries every year except when it frosts during flowering. Once the fruit is set they will stand a small mount of frost. It may not be the best cherry, but we love it. Birds love it. No fungus in the wood, yet. Really good looking tree!

Have a Montmorency sour on MXM 60. The tree is dying of fungus in the wood, but the rootstock seems healthy.     

Am also testing the dwarfing Russian cherry rootstocks here that thus far look good. At least they choose to live, actively growing. Deer love them. Have budded sweets to 6 and will report in the future.

Jerry



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