lol i’m a bit embarrassed to admit it but I paid 175$ for the jumbo
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So my suggestion if you want to get some of the more regular bush cherries (Juliet, Romeo, Cupid, cutie pie, carmine Jewel etc), is order from honeyberryusa, that’s where I got mine. 4 plants ship in a box, and I’ve always gotten nice plants from them, altho the sweet thing was small, it was I think just released when I order it. But the Juliet was huge, I’ve always been happy with stuff I’ve got from them.
If you want currants or gooseberries, go with Lucille at Whitman farm. You can only place orders over the phone tho, no online orders. (I’ve also gotten currants and GB from HBUSA to round out my order and plants were nice too)
To each their own, but just in case you’d be interested, many of the University of Saskatchewan sour cherries grow quite quickly.
I’m in 2b/3a, resulting in a short growing season and likely lesser annual growth than warmer regions, and below are some photos of two D’artaganan plugs I purchased ($20 CAD per) in 2024 and some growth. That being said, I did order a 2yr old bare-root Big Red for $40 CAD to be delivered this spring (amongst some others).
June 8, 2024
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Yep. They grow quite fast here too (midwest). Once they fill out, they start throwing suckers everywhere for me.
This is my cutie pie, from the UoS program.
It’s extremely dwarf, this is the start of its 2nd growing season. Its already started putting out suckers too. That’s honeyberry beside it to the right. I’d also say at least 90% of the Flowers have fruitlets currently.
4/7/26
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st lawrence nursery was pretty reasonable too. my sweet thing were about 3 feet tall and the rest 2 feet.
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My sweet thing got bit by a bunny when I planted it to like maybe 2-3 inches tall (I was pretty mad, and thought it was dead, since was in the fall/dormant planting). Then last year grew about 3-4 feet tall from the nub. It has 2 leaders basically and I bent one to the side. I was hoping it would get flowers but it didn’t. Guess it’s gonna grown a ton more this year and flower next year.
Here’s the wowza, I planted it around two weeks ago, it arrived bare root, they’d barely fit in a five gallon bucket, at that time it’d had a little bit of green on it but not nearly as much as it does now
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Glad to see you have some fencing around it.
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@Cole1 , deer did major damage to my Juliet that didn’t have fencing so I’ll be putting some fencing around it and a few others. Should only be needed for two or three years.
yikes, I hope you have better luck than me! Im giving mine 1 more year and then Im gonna dig them out, along with the 50 or so suckers around them.
Here it is now, growing a whole lot, little worried with how wet and humid its been but no signs of any problems yet.
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Would it be likely that mine fruits within the next couple years? With how big it was already on arrival I had kind of hoped it’ll trim off a year or two of waiting but I know many people say cherries take a very long time to actually start producing. Do you think it depends more on size/age of the plant itself or time in the ground post-transplant/purchase?
I think it also has to do with root development to support the fruit production as well as size/maturity
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Here it is now
It’s got something going on right here, (what’s coming off the stem at the base of the leaves, not any discoloration I mean)
What would those be? I don’t know much about cherries and I’m not sure what they are.
Would you happen to have any ideas as to what these are? more pictures in the previous post.
Thanks!
Looks like the tips of the branch. Terminal buds.
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Thanks!