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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

As far as I can tell.  Evans are own-rooted from Canada.  Bali are
Evans rooted on Mazzard roorstock and not as hardy.

---- Original Message ----
From: interverbis@videotron.ca
To: mijwiz@yahoo.com, nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] evans-bali cherry
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:18:46 -0400

>Greetings,
>
>For all its worth, I have an Evans tree (more like a big bush)
>sending lots 
>of suckers. I transplanted the suckers and now the suckers are
>producing 
>fruits and I cannot tell the difference between the original Evans
>cherries 
>and the fruit produced on the suckers...
>
>Transplanting the suckers would appear to be a practical way of
>reproducing 
>this Evans cherry tree, which would become quite invasive
>otherwise... I do 
>not understand the connection evans-bali, maybe it was explained and
>I just 
>missed it...
>
>Evans trees are unfortunately quite susceptible to gummose, an
>infection 
>oozing orange sap which affects wild cherry trees such as prunus 
>pensylvanica in this area... so I transplant suckers suspecting that
>the 
>original tree won't last very long. The cherries are delectable, the
>issue 
>being to get to them before the birds...
>
>Hélène, zone 3-4
>North of Ottawa
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Melissa Kacalanos" <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] evans-bali cherry
>
>
>It's possible your seedlings will be nice trees, but they won't be
>the 
>original Bali. The own-rooted Bali trees nurseries sell are from
>tissue 
>culture, not seeds.
>
>Melissa
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 12:39 PM
>Subject: [NAFEX] evans-bali cherry
>
>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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