Sour cherry trees can pollinate sweet cherry trees. I'm not sure if they make the best pollinator, but they are certainly capable of doing so. If you take a cherry that resulted from a blossom that was cross-pollinated here and take out the seed, that seed can grow into a hybrid tree, which can eventually produce fruit of its own (I know that in the case of the hybrid cultivar 'Mesabi' it's even self-fertile). However, the seeds inside this fruit are sterile and cannot grow. Like breeding a horse and donkey together to create a mule, there is no third generation. The reason is a chromosomal difference, sweet cherries are diploid (2n=16) while sour cherries are tetraploid (2n=32). A hybrid between the two results in a triploid cherry, which is why it cannot further sexually reproduce. However, flowering cherry species just happen to have the same chromosome count as Prunus Avium (i.e. sweet cherries), so that means they are capable of freely interbreeding. But it should be noted the two are still not in the same species. The question then is what does this really mean? Even when it comes to the different wild varieties of Japanese flowering cherry, oftentimes crossbreeding them together results in a hybrid that grows less vigorously than its parents, or is not very well adapted to its environment. Sometimes this may become more evident several generations down the line (you might read up more on how Outbreeding Depression works). Cultivated varieties of flowering cherry, almost all of which resulted from hybridization over hundreds of years) are much less hardy than their original wild pure-species relatives. We can even see some level of graft incompatibility combining different varieties of cherries within the same species, the tree does not grow quite as vigorously or as big as if it were grafted onto its own rootstock.

A technician with a few shellac sticks and the heat tool that is used to melt it can do a remarkable job disguising the damage. Furniture repair technicians use the same tools and media in their repair work.

We're putting it in our house currently being built and had the same concerns about the variation of color that I saw in the pictures. What I did was get my hands on as many samples as i could(you can order them from BR-111 and other internet sites) and covered one half of each sample. I then placed the samples on a window sill and left them for a while. I then was able to compare the covered 1/2 of the sample to the exposed 1/2. I was surprised at how much darker the exposed side got in just 3 weeks.

I have Monroe Bisque on all my hallways and in our master bedroom. You can see the light and dark of it in the entry way. Same paint on both walls From Paint Colors This is BM Stone House. Darker than Monroe Bisque, but just as nice with the cherry hardwoods. Both colors really show and wear well. These rooms were painted 5 years ago this month. From Paint Colors