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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: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:46:29 -0400

Before the Bali/Evans cherry I described, I tried a Northstar. It had exactly the same fate. It lived just about as long and was just about the same size when it suddenly died. The soil where I grow my plums and those cherries is fairly rich and not sandy.
At one time, there was a group of choke cherries growing along the property line, no more than 30 feet from where I tried growing my cherries. The choke cherries are now all gone (my neighbor cut them down). They were still there while the Northstar was growing. I kind of think they were gone before the Evans but I guess I'm not completely sure.

Steve in the Adirondacks

Claude Jolicoeur wrote:
I could have written almost the same story about my cherry experiences...
Near Quebec, zone 4, started with a Montmorency, then Northstar and Meteor.
After those 3 did about the same as Steve's Evans, I tried Evans as a last
try. Didn't do any better.
I always thought this was rather strange because apples, pears and plums
are all very happy here, and there are some Montmorency also happy not very
far from my orchard in areas at least as cold. Would it be the soil? It is rather sandy, and not very rich. I rather think is it because there are many wild cherries around
(P.virginiana - Choke Cherry and P.pensylvanica - Pin Cherry) that host
some sickness that the varieties can't cope with.
Claude,
Quebec

A 23:40 09.04.11 -0400, vous avez écrit :
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)

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