Cherry Trees not bearing fruit
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Comments (4)Japanese ornamental cherries may occasionally fruit, in some situations. I have gotten the opportunity to taste one of these fruits when they are fully ripe. When fully ripe they are very dark and have a very dark scarlet juice that stains. The fruits can be pretty juicy, but the fruits are pretty small and don't have much edible flesh, a very small flesh to seed ratio. The taste has a lot of bitterness and are not very sweet. The first thing that hits you is the bitterness, but after that there's an aftertaste of intense cherry cough syrup, which is a little stronger tasting than regular sweet cherries. It almost makes me think these could be used for culinary flavoring, but you'd have to want bitterness too (like in certain alcoholic cocktail drinks). Might not be a good idea to eat too many though. The most common Japanese ornamental cherry variety, Yoshino, is a very poor pollinator, so usually cannot pollinate itself, which means no cherries. Kwanzan is a sterile variety, cannot produce fruit, and the others require a different cherry variety (any species) to pollinate it if any fruit is to form....See Morenon fruit bearing cherry tree
Comments (5)The "big spikes growing on the side of the tree" may be from below the graft. If they have upright, non-weeping growth different from the original weeping cherry, that is certainly the case. These will very likely be of Wild Cherry (Prunus avium), which does bear fruit, though the cherries may be rather sour (though quite a lot of Wild Cherries do have very nice fruit, too). The flowers of Wild Cherry are single and white, not pink or double like the original, but still very attractive. Resin...See MoreAnybody from (or near) Bakersfield, CA?
Comments (12)You should have gotten a Lapins cherry tree. Not only because it happens to be one of the few varieties that don't require another pollinator, but also because you might actually have a chance of getting any cherries, as Lapins has a lower chill requirement than many other cherry varieties. If you don't get adequate winter chill, fruits won't form, even if there was pollination. Where you live, the most important thing to do to ensure young fruit trees survive is to make sure the plants get consistently watered. The best time to plant is right after the summer is over, when plants will get a reprieve from the scorching heat. Either that or late February. Lychee fruit is a lot better than longan, but they are also much more water thirsty, less hardy, much more stingy in fruit production. If you were thinking about giving lychee a try, Mauritius and Emperor may be the best varieties to consider, as they appear to have just a slight advantage over other varieties when it comes to drought tolerance. (Emperor has huge fruit size but is said by some to taste a bit bland) Out where you live I would try to make sure the lychee gets planted somewhere where it will be shaded from the hot afternoon sun. You might also try pomelo, you certainly have the long summer heat needed to ripen it....See MoreFloof: Cherries!!!!
Comments (31)I am fortunate in that across the street is a lovely old sour cherry tree -- and the owner's family doesn't care for the fruit, so they let me pick all I can. I've planted my own, though -- a North Star tree, and 3 bush cherries (Romeo, Juliet and Carmine Jewel). The bush cherries have set fruit for the first time this year -- I can't wait to taste them! I would have to say that a fresh picked peach is my real favorite, though. Love getting them from the orchards up near Lake Erie. I had never had a fresh apricot before I moved to San Diego - the house we rented had a tree in the yard. I thought those lovely, so sweet fruits were some kind of peach until I baked them into a pie and discovered that they were apricots!...See Morevieja_gw
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