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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] evans-bali cherry
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:50:32 -0400

Actually, it's the other way around. The name Bali came from Bill Mackentley at St Lawrence Nurseries. He sold them only as tissue cultured trees. I talked him into selling me one the year before they were big enough to list in his catalog. I watched Bill dig it up myself and we walked back to the building with him cupping the roots in his hands until he could wrap it properly.
My tree grew well. When it got big enough to flower I found that most of the flower buds were dead every spring. I never got more than a hand full of cherries a year. Also it would put out a foot (more or less) of new growth full of new buds. In the spring all the buds would be dead except the terminal buds and a few scattered flower buds. Lots of long skinny branches with new growth on the tips only. One August, the leaved turned yellow and fell a good month early. It was dead. This is EXACTLY how a previous North Star cherry behaved, dying a couple of years before I planted the Bali. Both died after the trunk was about 4 inches in diameter.
I sometimes wonder if the North Star left some disease in the soil and maybe I should try a Bali again in a different location.
Mine never produced a single sucker. I would have assumed that the ones that suckered were NOT own rooted. Maybe not.

Steve..... cold zone 4 in the central Adirondacks


On 7/24/2011 12:51 PM, Ernest Plutko wrote:
Are the suckers from the grafted root? I understand Bali is grafted
and Evans are the original non-grafted trees. I never had a sucker.
Maybe I can buy a few sucker from you? The cherries are very good
eating.

---- Original Message ----
From: qazingulaza@gmail.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] evans-bali cherry
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:44:40 -0500

The own rooted Balis will sucker profusely, but maybe you want that.
I planted out 75 suckers from 5 six year old trees last year. Just
looked a couple days ago& there is at least that many suckers
again...

~mIEKAL

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Ernest Plutko
<ernestplutko@wiktel.com> wrote:
Planted five Bali cherry trees last year. Only one made it through
the winter. I picked a cup of cherries off it today. I'll try to
sprout the seed and plant on own root. Should be more hardy then
on
the Evans-Bali grafted trees. I read the Bali grafted cherries are
not really hardy in cold winters.

Zone 2 Minnesota




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