black cherry tree care: not bearing fruit

Discussion in 'Fruit and Nut Trees' started by bpoole5, Jun 25, 2005.

  1. bpoole5

    bpoole5 Member

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    I have black cherry trees several years old that have little or no fruit, can anyone help? They came from a large tree that was always loaded with fruit.
    bill
     
  2. mr.shep

    mr.shep Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    San Joaquin Valley, California
    Most rootstock used for Cherries are not a
    true sweet or sour fruiting Cherry. Even if
    we took a few suckers from a parent tree
    and got them to root for us they probably
    will not bear fruit or the fruit will not be
    nearly the same in most cases like their
    parents fruit will be as the parent was
    probably a grafted plant to start with.
    You can graft a scion from the parent
    tree onto the saplings you now have but
    you may still need a fruiting Cherry tree
    to be a pollinizer for your grafted plants
    to have an ample crop of Cherries.

    Jim
     
  3. fourd

    fourd Active Member 10 Years

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    Most sweet cherries require a polinator. So usually at least two trees are usually needed. Sometimes you are lucky and there is already another polinator around, sometimes not. If another is in the proximity, I would look for some other problem, like for example a late frost.
     

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