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[Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>]

Thanks! I appreciate the cultural details. I had envisioned a central 
leader...

On 2/4/2016 1:27 PM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
> Betsy,
>
> I have been growing Northstars for about 20 years now...
>
> They are very attractive landscape trees.
>
> You can easily hold them at 6 feet so they can be netted completely.   I 
> suggest you prune to a classic vase shape with 4 main scaffolds.
>
> The are susceptible to brown rot, although I usually do not spray for it as I 
> have enough trees that I still get enough fruit.  Also if you train as I 
> suggested you can mitigate it through cultural practices as well as the 
> application of a box fan after it rains etc.
>
> There appears to be strains out there also, with some with larger fruit than 
> others.
>
> They hang well on the tree, and I harvest mine for weeks and week sat all 
> stages of ripeness.  But if you let them stay on the tree for  along, long 
> time they will become very dark and sweeten up some, becoming a delicious 
> sweet-tart.
>
> I usually spray mine once for PC, and that is all they need to keep the PC 
> off them.  I pit all mine etc, and now and then there is a larvae in there 
> but it is very, very rare for me.  So one spray it is.
>
> Kindest regards...
>
> the fluffy bunny
>
>
>
> --- ehilborn@mebtel.net wrote:
>
> From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
> To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters  
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 06:58:44 -0500
>
> I have nothing to measure yet. My tree is not bearing. They will be
> North Star 'sour' cherries.
>
> I would imagine they will be smaller than the sweet store bought Bing
> cherries. Does anyone have experience with this variety?
>
> Betsy
>
>
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