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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Evans Cherry
  • Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:30:06 -0500

Have you tried to root Evans cuttings?

---- Original Message ----
From: lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Evans Cherry
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:25:59 -0500

>Yet another archived post on Evan, from Bernie
>
>>Wed, 1 Aug 2001
>>From: Bernie Nikolai
>>My Evans cherry is now 60% ripe, a gorgeous red, a real show
>stopper. I'm
>>pruning my Evans to be a "tree", not a bush. Its about 10 ft. tall
>after 5
>>years from tissue culture, and looking very much like a "tree" with
>a single
>>trunk and nice lateral branches. Left without pruning Evans looks
>like a
>>Nanking cherry bush, with multi stems. I thin the fruit only because
>Evans
>>seems to want to produce huge quantities of cherries, even in my
>tough
>>climate, at the expense of tree growth. I hope to grow it to at
>least 15
>>feet as a traditional "tree". The taste this year is particularly
>>excellent, the best "tart" cherry I have ever tasted. When frozen
>whole in
>>a plastic baggie, they lose much of the tartness and are almost like
>a true
>>sweet cherry, but I like them just fine fresh off the tree. If you
>live in
>>a northern climate, zone 3 or 4, and want a very hardy, reliable,
>very
>>productive, excellent tasting tart cherry, get Evans. Nothing comes
>>remotely close from what I've seen. It MUST be on its own roots
>however.
>>It may be okay to have it grafted on Mahaleb or Mazzard. It hasn't
>been
>>tried up here as those two rootstocks would not normally be
>considered hardy
>>in zone 3. We just get tissue cultured plants or dig up root
>suckers.
>>Evans grafts readily, but seems to invariably die over the winter
>unless its
>>on its own roots. It seems to do best with grass competition right
>up to
>>the trunk, and no or very little fertilizer. It virtually seems to
>thrive
>>best on neglect, quite an unusual trait for a cherry tree.
>>Bernie Nikolai
>>Edmonton, Alberta zone 3
>
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