Cherry Tree cross Pollination
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will sweet cherry trees pollinate nanking cherry
Comments (2)I am in Zone 5 and my nanking cherry blooms before the other sweet cherries and I see no overlape for pollination. Anyway you have a good combo on your cherry tree....See MoreCherry Tree Pollinators - Only Another Cherry Tree?
Comments (12)Didn't want Chills excellent logic to get lost in the drain cycle here. If you get a self-fruitful sweet cherry, you can't lose. It's like type O Blood. A universal donor. It will pollenize whatever you've got planted and itself, too, provided that the bloom times generally overlap. For the east coast, where sweet cherries are challenging anyway because of the summer humidity which causes cracking and other disease issues, there has been the suggestion that Lapins is a good choice (I'm in the high desert, so I'm only repeating what others have said.) For the record, on those occasions when Jellyman has childed me for something or other, my reaction is to feel kind of honored. Few are more knowledgable--not to mention, generous with their expertise--than Don and I am grateful for his participation here, curmudgeonliness (sp?) and all. Don...See Morecherry tree blues
Comments (1)LOL re: cutting one cherry into five pieces. I am no expert, but it could be a matter of age. Often when a tree becomes old enough to start producing fruit it might do so sporadically. That is, it might produce a dozen cherries one year, none the next, a few after that, before finally getting into a 'rhythm' of producing a decent crop annually. Did you have a fairly decent amount of blooms but only one cherry? If so, it could be bad weather during bloom time (no pollination). Or, it might need another cherry tree to cross-pollinate but I assume that this isn't the problem because you have two cherry trees and a neighbors cherry tree nearby. I assume your tree is healthy, gets a decent amount of sunlight and had not undergone a major pruning? If so, it probably is that the tree just needs a few years to get into a decent rhythm and produce annually....See MoreBig tomato cross pollinated with a cherry or a small tomato.
Comments (7)Can I ask why so many questions about, the fixation on, weird crossings? I assume you know that it is more complex than just knocking the blooms from 2 different plants together? It doesn't happen over night, can often take years before anything is visible to the eye, that most of the time any change is not visible to the naked eye? That it can often involve multiple varieties to achieve any documented change in even one of them? That it is not something that most tomato growers intentionally do or are interested in. Most are interested in growing quality tomatoes to eat, not in weird crosses, much less making intentional crosses. Check out the Hybridizing forum here. That is where most of the crossing discussions are found. http://www.gardenweb.com/gardenweb/query/tomatoes/topic=hybrid Dave...See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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