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  • From: david.maxwell@dal.ca
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Can cherries thrive in the North?
  • Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:24:41 -0300

I had both Northstar and Meteor cherries in southern Ontario (probably zone
4, on the
northern edge of the Niagara peninsula), and got a small crop off them the
year before we
moved to Nova Scotia. I replanted the same two varieties here in NS (damp,
maritime zone
5b), and they grew well, but both succumbed to gummosis. I have not had the
problems
Claude and Steve describe, and the trees keep regrowing from the roots, the
new growth
looking nice and healthy, with nice shiny healthy-looking leaves, (until the
gummosis sets in)

> Here in northern New Hampshire (a windy and cool Zone 4b today) my
> tart cherry trees have done relatively well. I planted two Northstar
> in 2001 followed by an Evans in 2003, all from FEDCO. Cherries start
> fruiting here in the third or fourth year. One of the Northstar
> exhibited "gummosis" on the trunk for whatever reason about then and
> went into gradual decline.




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