I'd really like to hear if those Nanking cherries from T & T are really the size of quarters (or was it nickels) and if the bushes are productive.
I think the 'Black Nankings' are hybrids with Sandcherries and have larger fruit but are not as productive as pure red nankings.
Bob Bors
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mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Kehler Ewing
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Nanking Cherries
Hi folks,
Please pardon me if I am reposting something here... I've been recovering from a badly botched surgery for appendicitis and I've had a lot of really great drugs recently so my short term memory isn't so hot! ;o)
As for Nankings, I'm a bit horrified by you folks out there bashing them! My candy loving children love to go visit my friend when hers are ripe. Barb has a row of wind break stock purchased as a bundle of seedlings from T&T Seeds, Manitoba about 9 years ago (and they still sell this package). They all have different sized and coloured fruit, but only one bush out of the row is maybe too tart to thoroughly enjoy fresh by all of us. The 10 bushes all have fruit that is about thumbnail sized (although size does vary slightly) and come in dark red, bright red, peach and white. Her bushes are about 6-8' tall, very full of branches and fruit every year on the top of her windswept hill zone 3 hill. They are very sweet and tasty when ripe and make excellent jam which tastes like cherry with a hint of chokecherry.
My only complaint about them is that the cherries grow very close to the branches making them a bit of a nuisance to pick, but even that is relative: you can pick a gallon in probably half the time it would take to pick saskatoons or chokecherries or pincherries.
T&T Seeds also sells a Giant Nanking which is supposed to be much larger… more on that later (I’ve got two Giant Nankings and two rows of seeds from my friend’s best tasting Red Nanking and Peach Nanking).
Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB
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).
Scott Hills
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
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