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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

I have a North Star Cherry here in zone 3.... tending to zone 1.  It was a 
large potted tree when I bought it (probably 5' tall) and it came through 
last winter's -47C (which is -52.6F, thank-you metric conversion calculator!) 
with no loss of branches.  It didn't produce a lot of fruit, but neither did 
the U of S trees in the row beside it.  This spring will be their two year 
planting anniversary.


Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Tue, 3/22/11, rmelrose@danvilleVT.net <rmelrose@danvilleVT.net> wrote:

> From: rmelrose@danvilleVT.net <rmelrose@danvilleVT.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Dwarf sour cherry
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Received: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 5:54 PM
> > 
> > Anyone grow North Star in Zone 4?  I've had a
> couple over the years
> > but none of them have made it & not sure if i know
> why....
> > 
> > ~mIEKAL
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Neil Lewis <lewisn@georgetown.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I grow a North Star sour cherry here in Maryland,
> zone 7, and agree with
> >> everything Pete Tallman says. ?It's a good choice
> for a small sour cherry.
> >>
> >>
> >> Neil Lewis
> >>
> > 
> 
> North Star did quite well for me here in Vermont 3/4
> (tending to the
> latter). However, it was eventually overcome by brown rot
> -- massively
> infected one year when it had an especially heavy crop and
> I could not save
> it.
> 
> Richard
> 
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