My experience says it has nothing specially to do with decline, but I can see that that might also generate suckering.
I have 2 Evans cherries on their own roots (planted in 2005). They are very
productive in Montana given their young age. They haven't suckered yet. I
understand that they begin suckering when they begin to decline.
Jolyn in MT (Zone 5/4)
I have about 2 dozen Evans, bought 6 years ago as clones from Lawyers, 25% of them sucker every year. Plenty enough to provide all I want to give away or use for grafting rootstock. They continue to sucker right where I dug up previous years, I cut the root on the tree side in early autumn to give each sucker a chance to self-root better, then dig it up in spring.
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Del, 3a n. Mn
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