Anyone grow sweet cherries in Kentucky?

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I have a North Star pie cherry and it is doing great, but I hear sweet cherries don’t do well here. Just curious if anyone has had good success, because I am tempted. :slight_smile:

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don’t you’ll be sorry

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Have Surefire sour cherry on Gisela 5 and WhiteGold on Gisela 3 and Krymsk 5 planted this year. The Surefire on G5 and Whitegold on G3 are in half whiskey barrels and the white gold on krymsk 5 is in the ground. If I can keep the bacterial canker away I may have some luck. We shall see

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I’m in Northeast Alabama so it should be harder for me here in Alabama than Kentucky. If there was a consorted effort of breeding programs to concentrate on bacterial canker resistance there’s absolutely no reason there couldn’t be a cherry growing presence in the upper south/Atlantic growing region.

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Sweet cherries are harder to grow than tart cherries. Brown rot and cherry cracking is a much bigger problem on sweet cherries than it is on tart cherries. You will want to read thru the Eastern cherry thread it has lots of useful info.

I would pay close attention to posts in the thread by “thecityman”. He grows sweet cherries in Tennessee.

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