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["S & E Hills" <ehills7408@wowway.com>]

I’m with Lucky on this one.  (actually we seem to agree frequently)  I planted a row of 10 or so and over the years pulled each one out to replace it with something better.  The fruit was small and production was disappointing (even the nightborhood kids asked why I kept them before I pulled them out….my oldest son and his friends used to really enjoy eating in the yard).

 

Hansen’s cherry performed similarily for me here in Michigan.  Long since I pulled each of them out.

 

Scott Hills

Zone 6b Michigan

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Lucky Pittman
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:11 PM
To: 'North American Fruit Explorers'
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Nanking Cherries

 

ROTFLMAO, John. 8>{)

Don’t know if the Nankings I got were typical, but if that’s as big as the fruits get, I ain’t planting any more of ‘em, and the birds are welcome to ‘em.  Heck-fire, the fruits on the native black cherry, P.serotina, are bigger and have more edible pulp than the measly little things my Nankings produced.

LLP

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John S
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:05 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Nanking Cherries

 

Wow, Dr. Lucky!  You grow wheat almost the size of cherries!  No wonder they call the US the bread basket of the world.  Care to share your wheat growing secrets?  ;-P



--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:

Well, I could grow 'em from seed, too, if the birds didn't get 'em all - and
I'm not even sure any of my original Nankings are still alive - I never
really pay much attention to the abandoned nursery bed anymore - or, at
least, not to the P.americana or P.tomentosa in there.
I remember 'em fruiting one year, and I was sorely disappointed - tiny
little things, maybe twice the size of a grain of wheat or barley, mostly
pit with just a thin rim of pulp surrounding it.  Hardly enough to even
taste.  Not worth the trouble to walk the 50 yards to pick.
Used a few as dwarfing rootstocks for peaches and plums.

LLP

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:24 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Nanking Cherries

You guys are party-poopers.  It's great fun to grow these out, I do it
every year.  Not sure where to get seed tho because I collect my own
seed from my own various plantings.

~mIEKAL

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Dr. Lucky Pittman
<lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:
> You can buy cheap row-run Nanking seedlings for next to nothing.  I bought
a
> bundle of 10 for $5(or was it $2?) from Gurneys or Henry Field a number of
> years back.
>
> Lucky
>
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