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  • From: Kevin Bradley <bradleyk1998@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Evans
  • Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:50:54 -0700 (PDT)

Dr Evans made a point of mentioning early hardening off of the Evans and nitrogen control (keep N minimal)to make sure the Evans went into winter well prepared. Poor soil might help by limiting nitrogen. I recall he spoke about maintaining bare ground around the trees in the fall for some reason, don't recall why, related to N I think. Sorry, its been years since I had this conversation with him. If I find my notes I will re- post.
kevin bradley
edible forest nursery
PS I have had the Evans producing abundantly in good soil with a low water table. At another site it didn't do well, only a hundred feet away. Near that tree I have a Balaton that is very healthy but hasn't produced a single cherry in about 10 years. It is right next to a cedar, some oaks nearby, some root competition. (just listing as many factors I can think of, maybe collectively we could find a pattern to these weird cherry problems).


From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:09:19 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Evans or Bali cherry


I find your story quite bizarre.  Every year I go pick cherries by the five gallon pail off my friends Evan's cherry trees (she has 7 growing and suckering like weeds on top of a exposed windy hill).  Every year we merely admire the bumper crop of cherries that are well out of our reach on a 10 foot ladder!  And we hit -45 F pretty much every year and usually have a nice cold North wind chill to add to that.

But I have heard that the cherries that do well up here (Evan's and the U. of S. collection) like poor soil.  That's not really a problem for us as we have this really great clay that ensures everything grows nice and slow!
>From what I see, we don't get 4" caliper tree in less than 10 years in this area.

Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


> 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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