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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Thanks Richard,

I've been wanting to try some of the Hungarian cherries.  Does anyone have
any comments on the flavor (particularly sweetness) of the other Hungarian
varieties Balaton and Danube?

Mark
KS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Richard>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:33 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Hungarian cherries


> This year for the first time my `Erdi Jubileum' cherry -- which is on Colt
> rootstock, from OneGreenWorld, and is still only about 7' tall although 5
> years in the ground -- produced some cherries, meaning a cup or so. They
> are wonderful! Definitely the fruit is closer to a sweet cherry than a
sour
> cherry in shape, texture and flavour. I would say they are on the tart end
> of the scale for sweet cherries but very enjoyable to eat directly, much
> sweeter than any sour cherries I have been able to grow here. The colour
is
> a little `unusual', I would describe them as brownish-purple and it would
> be easy to be less polite. I let them ripen quite completely since I did
> not realize they were there. Not much bird damage either, despite our
> robins having been replaced this year by catbirds AND waxwings.
>
> Of course this is an unusual year. The pressure from brown rot has been
> fairly lower, so for instance `Early Richmond' produced a good crop with
> not much damage (but not so great to eat). The `EJ' showed no leaf of
fruit
> damage from brown rot although a `Meteor' a few feet away was quite
> seriously affected, most of its fruit is lost (which is quite usual). The
> `EJ' has not shown any winter damage either, although in quite an open
spot
> -- but then we have not had a hard winter in the last five. It flowers
> quite late.
>
> Overall I am pretty pleased with this and will try to graft or get a few
> more! Edible cherries at the end of June in Northern Vermont! Yippee.
>
> Richard
> Zone 4a.
>
>
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