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  • From: "Lucky Pittman" <lpittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sour cherry cultivars for zone 6b/7a
  • Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:23:07 -0600

Steve,
Evans/Bali(I got mine from Bill MacKentley at SLN) has been a real 'dog'
here - certainly not worth the space it's occupied for the past 12-14 years.

Tree health was OK - though the 'original' has succumbed to borers/gummosis,
or some other stonefruit malady. But, as it was a tissue-cultured
selection, there are suckers of it all over the place - some as far as 30-40
ft from the original tree.
Blooms late, fruits late - so the bugs get all the fruits - don't know that
I've ever eaten more than a half-dozen fruits in the 10+ years it's been
bearing.
I've seen photos of it in fruit in a zone 4 setting - and if I lived there,
I'd definitely want it in my orchard - looks marvelous. But here, just
north of the KY/TN state line, it's crap.

Lucky Pittman

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Steven Covacci
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:29 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Sour cherry cultivars for zone 6b/7a



Group:
I just learned that, perhaps, planting an 'Evans' (aka 'Bali') sour cherry
(P. cerasus) in zones warmer then 4 or 5 might result in a tree which is a
failure: less productive and more prone to insects ruining the fruit - that
there would not be enough chill hours.
Hopefully, my 'North Star' will be fine.
What is a sour cherry that is not a hybrid (i.e. w/P. tomentosa) that would
be good for zone 6b/7a?
Lastly, speaking on sour cherry hybrids, does anyone think that the SK dwarf
sour cherry series will do ok for me, or too hot here?


Thanks,
Steve; NJ 6b/7a

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