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["Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>]

Title: RE: [NAFEX] Evans Cherry, grafting, ripening, harvesting

Del, I'll look up a recipe or two for cherry liqueur or cordial after work tonight.  The recipes are usually very simple, cherries, vodka or grain alcohol, sugar, spices (optional; usually cloves or cinnamon or allspice), often lemon peel and often cherry leaves.  I've even cracked a few cherry stones and added them for a slight almond flavor (you don't want to overdo it with the stones, though; they contain a cyanic acid, which is poisonous in a large dose. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Del Stubbs
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:58 AM
To: rmelrose@danvilleVT.net; North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] Evans Cherry, grafting, ripening, harvesting

 In May I w&t grafted a different tart cherry onto an Evans, it is doing well so far, I plan to be using this particular tree as a mother tree for various tart trees I am trialling.

 I just removed (August 8) a nylon stocking I had placed over and entire branch of Evans cherries to keep the birds off - so I could actually try them fully ripe. It worked perfectly. Wonderful! I don't have a brix tester, but they sure gained sweetness.  Very soft and juicy. Many fell as I was picking, that's ripe. I picked many with stems on with scissors and will be trying them in brandy. Any good recipes?  I remember once seeing a homemade cherry harvester - it was a large cone with a slit in front, attached to the loader of a small tractor. It would be driven up to a tree, the tree gently shaken, and cherries would then fall down the cone. I don't know if this was done multiple times in a season as cherries ripened but I would guess so. Del

--- rmelrose@danvilleVT.net wrote:

> What about the other way around? Has anyone successfully grafted
> another cherry onto Bali/Evans? Since it root-sprouts so readily it is
> an obvious candidate and would presumably lead to dwarfing if it is
> graft compatible at all. I suspect the answer is that it isn't but
> would be interested in actual evidence to save me the effort of
> finding out the hard way.
>
> Richard
>
> >
> > At 10:17 AM 8/7/2007, you wrote:
> >>Did somebody already go over the genetics of Bali? Is it avium,
> >>cerasus, or a combination of the two?
> > I've seen it listed as P.cerasifera...so, none of the above; but, I
> > can't recall where I saw that apellation, nor the justification for
> > its application.
> >
> >>Would it be compatible with sweet cherry, avium, as a rootstock?
> > Everything I've seen written about it indicates that it does not
> > survive/perform as a grafted specimen, regardless of the
> > rootstock(though I suppose on its own seedlings, it might.
> >
> > Lucky
> >
>
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Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com   zone 3a   N. MN

      
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