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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

Steve, I can't tell you much, because my trees will be in only their
third leaf this spring, but I have the same three that you are
choosing, Jubileum, Northstar, and Bali. I chose Jubileum because MSU
extension said it was more resistant to brown rot than Danube.

So, I've had no fruit, but I can tell you that where I am, Jubileum is
struggling compared to the others. It's had a lot of leaf diseases,
early leaf drop, very slow growth. Possibly due to sweet cherry genes?
Sweet cherries have had a couple really bad years here due to weather,
lots of leaf diseases, early defoliation. Northstar and Bali both look
clean and healthy, and are putting on good growth each year. I have a
decent loam soil, although the only amendment I've added for these
trees is a 3 foot circle of 6 inch deep woodchips, and water weekly
the first season. We'll see about fruit! I'm hoping for some flowering
at least this year.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com> wrote:
> What are the different opinions on the various commonly available 
> sour-cherry varieties:
>
>
> Danube
> Jubilieum (really a sweet-cherry x sour-cherry hybrid)
> Montmorency (really a Nankin-cherry x sour-cherry hybrid)
> Northstar
> Bali (Evans)
>
>
> I live in NJ (6b).
>
>
> I'm going to have Jubileum, Northstar, and Bali (Evans).  Bali is an 
> experiment; although many report bad results with it in warm zones as my 
> own, Bob Purvis told me his did find under similar circumstances.  I'll 
> report back.
>
>
> I wonder if I should have gotten Danube over Bali; and if Northstar is 
> disease-susceptible - that I should have went with that Hungarian cv. that 
> starts with S, as a replacement for.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
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