I love cherry, especially large size cherries. Now I have moved to SoCal, and I am planning to have some large fruit size cherry varieties such as Tamara, Rocket, Carmen, Sweet Sarreta, Sweet Stephany, Sweet Valina, Sweet Lorenz, Grace Star, Black Star, Big Star, etc…
If you live in U.S and have any of those variety, please let me know. Thanks
Do you have enough winter chilling for most cherries or just a few?
You’re making me wish I was planting more cherries, not mango.
Good luck with your cherry quest…!!
@CherryLover1 – Welcome to GrowingFruit!!
Where in SoCal are you planning on growing these cherries? There are locations that work. Most of them get at least a brief dusting of snow in the winter. Some are in high desert areas and the remainder are mountain communities.
Yeah, it can go down to 30s for many days in the winter. Do you have any of those big cherry varieties?
I am in USDA 9a or 9b. It can be cold in winter. Do you have any large cherry varieties?
Welcome @CherryLover1, looking forward to getting to know you. Happy growing. I do not have any of those cherries on your list but I bet you will have them soon. This site is great for that. 
Thanks
Welcome to the forum @CherryLover1.
I have lots of chill hours, so that is not a concern for my cherry varieties. If you click the magnifying glass in the top right corner and enter the varieties you’re interested in you may find the type of info you’re looking for.
It’s a matter of how long (contiguous hours per day) it stays cold.
I’ve lived much of my life in southern CA and been unable to fruit large cherries in our 9b zones.
I don’t have any but am looking for Utah Giant if that counts. I like large cherries. But eating quality, mainly taste, is much more important to me.
I’ve already directed you to two threads here that discuss many of the varieties that you mention.
For anyone who’s interested, here’s some information about Utah Giant cherry. Dave Wilson is the largest supplier of deciduous fruit trees to western retail nurseries (excluding big box stores).
Hi EJ
I have all the varieties of cherries that you mention and many more.
You can see pictures of some of my varieties in this post:
But unless Albacete has become the 53rd American state, I continue to be Spanish hahahaha.
You can ask me what you want about cherries.
Regards
Jose
Hi Jose,
WOW, You are very blessed to have all those gigantic cherry varieties. It seems like you are living in other country than U.S. What country do you live in currently. I am hoping to get some cuttings for grafting if you live in U.S.
Hi Ej.
he largest cherry variety in the world is the Hungarian Carmen variety, obtained at the University of Budapest by hybridizing of the varieties Sarga Dragan x H203.
It is a very sweet cherry with an excellent flavor (for me, I am a bit special with the cherries, I find it medium firm, and I like crunchy cherries in the mouth).
In the photo that you are going to see, the Carmen cherry has a weight of 33 grams, but German sources indicate weights of up to 35 grams , or 1,16 Oz (I hope to exceed it).
This variety for you would be spectacular.
Regards
Jose
Hi Ej.
In that post, where you have seen photographs of some varieties of cherry trees, it is only a small example.
My business is the hospitality industry and I have a restaurant-hotel, so for work reasons, I don’t have time to do a photographic report of all the varieties of cherries of my orchard (I estimate that I will have about 130-150 varieties of cherry trees).
I started that post, in the year 2021, and next year, I want to post pictures of many more varieties.
I’m not American, I’m Spanish, and I live in central Spain (Castilla La Mancha region), if you know the book “The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”, is my region, because the story takes place in the towns near mine.
Before growing cherry trees, I recommend knowing what type of land you have, in order to choose the right rootstock (this is more important than the cherry varieties to be grafted).
As I am a regular on the forum, we will continue talking about cherry trees.
Now, I want to explain in the thread of the good varieties of cherry trees, how to perform a double graft in a single year.
That is, use a vigorous stone fruit rootstock, for example Rootpac-R (it’s a great rootstock), graft Adara plum or Monrepos plum on Rootpac-R to make it compatible with cherry, and in the same year graft the cherry variety.
It’s easy if you know how to do it.
Regards
Jose
That is very impressive. I wish I can have Carmen tree. You are living in Spain so there is no way to get any of cuttings from you. I know how important it is to protect U.S agriculture. One thing I wish is that U.S cherry whole seller purchase license to sell those large patented cherries in U.S, and go through all the inspection required for imported plants.
Did you have one named Saleh or something similar that you used to like a lot?
Hi Steven.
Yes, it’s all about the variety:
Liberty_Bell_Sweet_Cherry (4).pdf (165.6 KB)
It is a great variety of cherry, I show you some photographs.
And it’s the same program as the Tieton variety, which is also fantastic .
Tieton_Sweet_Cherry (3).pdf (300.2 KB)
Highly recommended both , for low humidity climates, since both are very susceptible to cracking
Greetings
José
Yes, I liked Selah. It was big and beautiful…!! I loved the shape, size, and color. Tasted good.
Never got much fruit off it but that was my issue. My production system gave very high brix but low production. I’d like to grow it again but doubt I can find it. I think Tieton will be easier to find so I’ll give that a try.
How many years did you grow your cherry trees? I find that the production picks up significantly after 5-6 years. I was wondering if each cherry tree will only give me a snack worth of cherries but boom this year it over-cropped significantly. I harvested and froze a lot of it but I couldn’t be faster than the cherry fruit fly which spoiled 1/3rd of the fruit.
