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Researching Cherry Fruit Bud Hardiness
…of cherry buds is about -6°F. Cherry buds have the ability to gain about 4° of hardiness per day. Once temperatures rise about freezing, the added hardiness below -6°F can…
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Cherry Prunus cerasus Evans cherry (close-up) Cherries occupy the Cerasus subgenus within Prunus. They are members of the Rosaceae family, subfamily Prunoideae. Prunus avium L. is the Sweet Cherry, and…
Read MoreSWEET CHERRY OBSERVATIONS
…cross of Emperor Francis’ with Gil Peck’. This cherry deserves to be tried again in Anchorage. Any cherry with different parentage (‘Salmo’, ‘Sam’. Viva ) should be cross compatible with…
Read MoreFeatured Fruit — Nanking Cherry
Nanking Cherry Exerpted from “Plums on the Prairies” by Rick Sawatzky http://www.usask.ca/agriculture/plantsci/dom_fruit/articles/plums.pdf “Prunus tomentosa, Nanking cherry, is widely grown in the prairie provinces. Nanking cherry as well as…
Read MoreTART-CHERRY AND PLUM OBSERVATIONS
TART-CHERRY OBSERVATIONS by Bob Purvis In 1993 I planted a Meteor tart cherry on a Mazzard rootstock and in 1994, a Baird pie cherry, grafted from the tree in…
Read MoreINDUCING BLOOM IN NANKING CHERRY
By Bob Purvis Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa) has been grown as a substitute for pie cherry trees by Alaskan gardeners for many years because of its hardiness (zone 2—it…
Read MoreHansen Bush Cherry Sets Fruit with Manure Tea
by SEYMOUR MILLS At the orchard tour at my place someone said that Hansen Bush Cherry did not fruit in Anchorage. Guess what? Mine have fruit on them this year….
Read MoreRomeo cherry tree likely doesn’t need fertilizer
…our South Central temp swings can wreak havoc on plants. It is exciting to trial new fruits though isn’t it? Unlike many cherry trees, the Romeo is hardy enough to…
Read MoreSWEET CHERRY OBSERVATIONS
…it also is a very late-ripening sweet cherry although it has almost every quality one might desire: firmness, sweetness, self-fertility, crack resistance, and very large size. ‘Lapins’, a cross of…
Read MoreCHERRY PLUM REPORT
By Clair J. Lammers This year I had good success with growing and ripening four (4) varieties of cherry plums in the interior of Alaska. The following is a…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE THOUGHTS
…Sept. 26. 1 gallon. Cavalier cherry. B May 22. No fruit. Chokecherry. B May 22, didn’t pick; put Cygon 2 on tree. White Nanking cherry, B May 22, no fruit….
Read MoreWhy Fruit Trees Fail to Bear
…to 6 Cherry, sour – 3 to 5 Cherry, sweet – 4 to 7 Dwarf apple and dwarf pear trees usually begin to bear 1 to 2 years earlier…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE SURVIVAL RECORD, WINTER 1989 -1990 FAIRBANKS ALASKA
…Rosthern 18, State Fair, Sunnybrook, Tyrustrup, Vista Bella, Viking, Wallace, Westland and Wien crab. Stone fruits and misc: Assiniboine plum, Manchurian plum, Nanking cherry, ground cherry, pin cherry, buffalo…
Read More1988-89 WINTER HARDINESS REPORT: Purvis
…on his Montmorency pie cherry. His North Stars likewise did very well, but there was much injury to an Early Richmond pie cherry above the snow line. His Stella, Sam,…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE SURVIVAL RECORD FOR WINTER OF 91-92 IN FAIRBANKS, AK.
…MAHALEB, PLUMS: KAHINTA, RED COAT RED WING CHERRY (50% INJURY) APPLES: GENEVA EARLY. SUPERIOR (NO INJURY) GRAVENSTEIN RED. PLUMS: PRAIRIE UNDERWOOD CHOKECHERRYS CHERRY: P AVIUIM, P. PRINCIPIA WEAVER MESABI P…
Read MoreFruit Performance Summary for Anchorage and Hope
…orchard. It showed no winter-injury after the -28F there. The ‘Sam’ sweet cherry which he planted in 1988 had a small amount; the ‘Saimo’ sweet cherry planted in 1989 died…
Read MoreBench Grafting Stone Fruits In The Spring
…Possibly because the buds and leaves of cherry are large and use a lot of water, he recommends keeping freshly grafted cherry rootstocks at a temperature of 55 to 60F…
Read MoreFRUIT-RIPENING DATES IN FAIRBANKS
…Variety (apples Date unless noted) picked Mesabi Cherry 7/29 Pin Cherry ’’ Nanking Cherry 7/30 Elderberry ’’ Chinese Golden Early 8/18 Dawn 8/20 Rarkland 8/26 Heyer 12 ’’ Westland 8/29…
Read MoreCold injury to fruit trees a big concern
…is genus- and variety-dependent: peach, minus 10˚ F; cherry, minus 15˚ F; apple and pear, minus 25˚ F to minus 30˚ F. “There is not as much information on shoot/leaf…
Read MoreSELF INCOMPATIBILITY IN PRUNUS
Self-incompatibility in Prunus is widespread. Most commercial almond (Prunus dulcis) and sweet cherry cultivars (Prunus avium) are self-incompatible, and some are cross incompatible. Thus, they require a specific pollen source…
Read MoreWINTER 1996-97 SURVIVAL
…IRISH PEACH IVANS BEAUTY JACKS #1 JAN CHERRY JEWELL DUCHESS JOHN PEAR JOHN WALLACE JOHNSON 1 JOY CHERRY JOYCE JULY RED JUMPING POUND KANDIL KITAIKA KAPPA C.P. KERR KINGSCOURT KITAIKA…
Read MoreREVISED SURVIVAL FOR WINTER 1995-1996
…70 Erskine #1 D Eurika D Evans Cherry Exter Fall Red D Fantaije D Federovski D Florence Garland Garnet D Garry George D Gideor D…
Read MoreFRONT AND CENTER: CLAIR LAMMERS
…on chokecherry trees. Cherries currently grafted include ‘Meteor’, ‘North Star’, and ‘Montmorency’; cherry plums, ‘Compass’, ‘Sapalta’ and ‘Red Diamond’; and plums, ‘LaCrescent, and ‘Underwood’. Sand cherry, Nanking cherry, and ground…
Read MoreGROWING FRUIT TREES AND MUCH MORE IN TOK
…vigorous. Our largest chokecherry was moose browsed but still had a few flowers. We were given a rooted branch of a ‘Canada Red’ cherry 2 years ago. This past…
Read MoreORCHARD REPORT – Interior Summer 1995
by Clair Lammers Fairbanks Pick dates of my various fruits. (Apples unless otherwise stated. * = new variety) Variety Date Picked Mesabi cherry 7/30 Pin cherry 7/30 Nanking…
Read MoreOrchard Report – Edmonton – 2001
…kill was experienced and yield was low. Sea Buckthorn, silver buffaloberry, Korean bush cherry, cherry princepia and black chokeberry bushes were also heavily loaded. Although edible, these berries are seldom…
Read MoreCANADIAN COMMENTS
…pie cherry which Eddy Dugas (P.O. Box 172, Van Buren, ME 04785) has found, which like Meteor is an amarelle but slightly hardier. He describes it as equal to Montmorency…
Read MoreSUMMARY OF FEBRUARY MEETING (1990)
…successfully grown Yellow Transparent’ (her favorite), ‘Northern Spy’, ‘Early Gold’, ‘Bing cherry’, ‘Black Tartarian’ cherry (the earliest to bear fruit), and unknown crabapples. With the heavy snowfall in Haines, Jo…
Read MoreEARLY ALASKAN ORCHARD BEARS FRUIT TREE KNOWLEDGE
…years, one-third of a season’s growth was killed during winter. Leaf spot was also reported to be a problem. One cherry tree trained against the south-facing wall of the Station…
Read MoreANOTHER VISIT TO THE WHITEHORSE GARDENS
…the gardens that seemed to be doing well were pin cherry, native saskatoon, golden chokecherry, ‘Shubert’ chokecherry, mongolian cherry, and ‘Manor’ cherry. The manchurian apricot showed top dieback. —P. Holloway…
Read MoreSOME TIPS FROM GARFIELD SHULTS
By Bob Boyer Garfield Shults, an earnest experimental grafter from Homedale, Idaho, says that cherry plums will double or triple in size if budded on apricot rootstock. He…
Read MoreEDIBLE TREE FRUITS PRODUCED IN ALASKA
…CHERRIES (15 varieties) Amour Chokecherry (rootstock,/?), Baird Bing (A), Baird Unknown (A), Birdcherry (V), GM-61 (rootstock/A), Hansen Bush Cherry (AF), Hanshew Unknown (A), Homer Sweet (Ho), Mesabi (A), Meteor…
Read MoreFRUIT GROWING IN MINNESOTA- FIRST IMPRESSIONS
…and Bali tart cherry in their 1999 catalog. It is worth notings however, that only 2% of their nursery-stock sales are of fruit trees. In my visit with a grower…
Read MoreADAMS COUNTY NURSERY, PENNSYLVANIA
— B. Boyer On my Pennsylvania trip, I visited Tom Callahan at Adams County Nursery. We toured their sweet cherry blocks. They have Hudson, Black Gold, NY 13-791,…
Read MoreNursery Tour
…It was sweet but rather pithy in texture. (Zone 5) Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) is actually a type of dogwood with oblong fruit and a pit. The shrub had…
Read MoreAugust 2002 Tours
…The neglected raspberry patch was Boyne. The bearing cherry tree was Meteor. Of the two seedling Manchurian plums, the yellow ripened 2 weeks after the tour but the blue didn’t…
Read MoreA Study of the Winter Kill Phenomena
…Blue Poppy. Shrubs: Roses, Raspberry, Lilac, Honey Suckle, Strawberry. Trees: Apple trees, Amur Cherry, Mountain Ash, Choke Cherry. Including all categories, more than 55 varieties were mentioned at least once….
Read MoreNew Fruit Variety Trials
…difference is that they have great soil with very few rocks. Bernie has about 200 apple trees, 30 pear trees, and a few cherry trees in his orchard. He is…
Read MoreORCHARD REPORT
ORCHARD REPORT -by Michael J. O’Brien Nikiski This report covers the production of fruit for this past season in my Nikiski orchard. I have six Meteor cherry trees…
Read MoreOverwintering Fruit trees in Alaska 1988
During the winters of 1986 and 1987 and 1987 to 1988 I overwintered in pots, a number of apple, pear, plum, apricot, and sweet and tart cherry trees. The decision…
Read More1994 MICRO-ORCHARD REPORT FROM SOUTHEAST ALASKA
…four varieties of sour cherries (English Morello, Meteor, North Star, and Suda Hardy), and one variety of sweet cherry (Gold). My total production—I hope you’re sitting down—was about 24 descent-sized…
Read MoreRecipes – Spring 2002
…ziploc bags for use later. To mix juice to drink, mix 2 cups frozen juice with 1 cup sugar. Add water to make 2 quarts. Apple-Cherry Pie from…
Read MoreNews from Fairbanks, 1988
…cherries. I think they might make the scionwood harden off sooner than the traditional “Mahaleb” rootstock. I also think that the “Oppenheim” cherry might be hardy enough to grow in…
Read MoreCherries
…almost black. Small pit; lots of flesh. Mature height 6’ to 8’ SK Crimson Passion (formerly called Big Mamma) Dark red fruit. Fresh eating Cherry. No suckers. Fruit size is…
Read MoreDid You Know?
…bark may grow back. Young apple trees do best in bare soil with no competing grass or weeds and no mulch. Evans cherry trees do best with neglect…
Read MoreOrchard Report
…allow a sucker to re-establish a tree or to start over with a Romeo I ordered for next year. The Crimson Passion cherry did great and now has some fat…
Read MoreHardy Plums
…-30 F or possibly even colder. St. Lawrence Nurseries introduction. Fruits are large, oval, medium blue with amber flesh and a mild, sweet flavor. ‘Garfield Shults’ – Cherry plum,…
Read MoreFrom the Editor’s Garden
…front lawn had no difficulties. The cherry set was miniscule on all the trees. The Shipovas, a natural mountain ash / pear cross out of eastern Europe, also died back…
Read MoreANTIQUE COLD-HARDY APPLE VARIETIES IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
…originated in Maine, including Dudley, Coles Quince, Moses Wood, Winthrop Greening, Thompson, Deane, Nutting, Brock, Striped Harvey, Cherry Pippin, Statkey, Major Small, Somerset, Winn’s Russet, and Black Oxford. Except Brock,…
Read MoreALASKA FRUIT CALENDAR
…then weight them down with grass clippings. – If you have cherry trees and your site is windy, spray trees with Wilt-Pruf if temperatures are above 40°F. November 15 –…
Read MoreTHE HAINES FRUIT SEASON
…can remember ever seeing their trees so loaded with fruit. I had to prop the branches of my sour cherry trees. All varieties of sweet cherries did exceptionally well. Even…
Read MoreTree census 1991
…also reports that a sweet cherry tree is producing prolifically in the vicinity of Seventh and E streets. The practical-minded Alaska NAFEX officer-at large lauds cold climate fruits as…
Read MoreCHARLES H. ANWAY. A HAINES ALASKAN PIONEER, MINER AND HORTICULTURIST. 1857 -1949
…cherry orchard in Alaska. He won a special award in 1915 from the Skagway Horticultural Society for producing the first mature apple in Alaska. His horticultural triumphs are just part…
Read MoreBlueberry Recipes
Blueberry Bavarian Cream 1 pkg (6 oz) red gelatin (raspberry, strawberry, cherry, etc.) 168 g 2C boiling water 480 mL 1C pineapple juice (from crushed pineapple; if not a…
Read MorePREPARING TREES FOR WINTER
…an antidesiccant used to prevent evergreens from drying out and that it seems to prevent winter-injury to some extent. This technique is one I also tried out on pie cherry…
Read MoreGARDEN AND FRUIT GROWING REPORT
…few more growing seasons to better evaluate the spring 1991 plantings. (Editor’s note: Last month’s newsletter [December 1991] contained an article by Bob Purvis entitled “Inducing Bloom in Nanking Cherry”.)…
Read MoreALASKA PIONEER FRUIT GROWERS SCIONWOOD AVAILABLE FOR GRAFTING IN APRIL 1992
…Chenango Strawberry, and CHM-7. Cherries: Bada cherry. Clair’s Cultivations. Pears: Tioma. Northwind Nursery. Apples: Iowa Beauty and Melba. Northwoods Nursery. Apples: Wynooche Early. Pacific Northwest Fruit…
Read MoreFRUIT GROWING IN ALASKA vs. WASHINGTON
…cherry, apricot and plum trees I planted there grew quite well. There was sufficient rainfall (22” per year) such that only in July, August and sometimes September was supplemental irrigation…
Read More1993 APPLE TASTING RESULTS
…delicious! There were over 20 varieties of apples available to taste (and one green Compass cherry plum), and 18 people turned in their evaluation sheets so that I could report…
Read MoreOrchard Reports – Fall 2000
…winter will tell on them. Five Evans cherry trees in pots all put on major growth this summer, as well. My Ozark Beauty and “over the fence” strawberries produced very…
Read MoreFALL ORCHARD REPORT FROM DAVE CRUSEY
…hardy, vigorous tree, but the fruit itself is worthless. The Cruseys also have three producing cherry varieties: Northstar (which tends to go bushy), Meteor (pretty reliable), and Montmorency (no…
Read MoreORCHARD REPORT, June 3, 1995 – Fairbanks
… U ENIGMA B EREMONT RUSSET U HRICKSON SLIGHT ERSKINE #1 PLUM EURIKA U EVANS CHERRY U …
Read MoreHoney Bee Fun
…my bees were typically active when it was calm out and temperatures were above 50 degrees. I did see the bees visit my apple and cherry blossoms, but poor weather…
Read MoreNEW CHALLENGES FOR APFGA FOUNDER
…by a 1-1/4 hour drive home from the Columbia Basin. Still, it is satisfying and very instructive to watch the weekly changes in our apple, pear, and cherry trees as…
Read MoreOREOLE APPLE TREE
…parrot who shreds and eats both bark and wood. I’ve had no insect problem since I started painting the trunks and longer branches of the apple, plum, and cherry trees…
Read MoreMESSAGE FROM CLAIR LAMMERS ON USE OF ROOTING HORMONE IN GRAFTING
…improved the ‘take’ and also starts the plant earlier. Our weather has been GREAT-chokechemes have leaves 2 inches long. All apricots (are covered with buds), most plums and cherry plums…
Read MoreOrchard Report: EAST ANCHORAGE—Kevin Irvin
…just shook a little and then continued on. However all of my trees were a month behind ripening. ‘Northstar’ pie cherry’ which usually ripens at the end of July ripened…
Read MoreSoutheast Apple Tasting 1997
…T X Very tart 2 14 Carolina Red June R S/M S T RSF, Cherry flavor 2 15 Herring Pippin G/R M H W …
Read MoreKETCHIKAN ORCHARD REPORT
…for the early blooming cherries and plums was terrible. We did not get a single cherry from seven different varieties of sweet cherries, and the only plum to set fruit…
Read MorePhoto Gallery
…of Parkland apples Carrol apple Prairie Magic Silken apple Evans cherries, unripe Evans cherry (close-up) Red Jade currant Honeyberries Jahns Prairie gooseberry Peach Tree, wintered–over, one year Opal Plum, unripe…
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