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Cherries are very popular with both birds and gophers so you need to protect your tree from them. Birds love the fruits and gophers love the roots. Birds can be held off with bird netting. Gophers can be deterred by planting the trees in metal cages of a heavy enough gauge that a gopher can’t chew through. Cherries are prone to a number of other pests as well.
Cherry fruit is prone to splitting in rain so create a canopy over your trees if possible after they have set fruit.
As with many tree fruits, it does not grow true to seed. So while you can plant seeds and get a cherry tree, it likely will not resemble its parent very closely. However, if you have the room, the time and the patience to experiment, it could be rewarding. The seed needs to be “cold stratified” which means keeping it at a temperature below 40 F (but not freezing) for a prolonged period. You can either do that by keeping it outside during winter if you live in a cold area, or putting it in the fridge. Stratify it for at least 3 months.
These estimates for how long Sour cherry takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.
Average 150 days | Min days | Max days (0)
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Cerasus means cherry in Latin.
The latin ‘fruticosa’ means “shrubby”.1
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