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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Evans or Bali cherry
  • Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:40:14 -0400


I live about 40 to 50 miles south of St Lawrence Nurseries. I was up there one spring and he was telling me about the new cherry he was offering. I talked him (Bill) in to selling one to me even though he wasn't going to list them in the catalog for another year.
We went out to the field and he dug one for me and cradled it in his hands as we walked back to the barn where he wrapped it up for the trip home.
I planted it in soil that will grow plums like crazy. It never did well. It grew quickly into a small tree but most of the flower buds were killed over winter. It always had just scattered flowers and never produced more than a hand full of cherries in any one year. In fact, most of the leaf buds died each year too, leaving the terminal buds alive. Lots of bare twigs with a tuft of new growth on the ends.
After several years, when the trunk diameter was about 4 inches, the leaves appeared to go into their fall colors in August, then the leaves fell off. That was the end of it.

Steve in the Adirondacks (zone 3 or 4)



mIEKAL aND wrote:
This is from the St. Lawrence Nursery website:

"Discovered growing near Edmonton, Alberta, by Dr. Ieuan Evans, Bali
has fruited after withstanding minus 43 degrees F. A vigorous grower
and precocious producer, yielding large (up to1 inch) fruit excellent
for pies, sauces, jams and even fresh eating. Five year old trees
(about 7 ft tall) have produced up to 10 gallons of fruit. Trees are
from tissue culture, which means there is no graft or rootstock to
worry about. Natural dwarf."



On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
wrote:
My Bali trees have a few flowers but no cherries. No suckering and
poor growth. I am disappointed because I read how wonderful and
hardy Bail is. Bali originated in Canada but I read the American
version is not on own roots. I don't think Mazzard is hardy enough.
There are probably different versions of Bali on different roots.
There is a small nursery about 40 miles from me. The owner imports
some stock from Winnipeg in the spring. She said it is a hassle to
get import certificates but Canadian nursery is better for this area.
I'll track her down and ask her to import Bali this spring.

Ernie zone 2/3




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