The Romeos have bigger pits, which work better in some pitters. A bush is easier to net than a tree. I spray them with Spinosad regularly after losing the first couple crops to worms. You might also need a fungicide. The cherries make wonderful pies.
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Thanks. I do use Spinosad on other things, so that will be easy to do.
Thanks, Steve and zen dog. I’m about to go order two Carmine Jewels. 
Two of my Carmine Jewels have died, the same season they reached the size to finally produce some fruit. Here’s a picture of one of them after I cut it down, oozing with some disease. Carmine Jewel and Nanking cherries have both succumbed to disease pressure after a few years, while other stone fruit has not. Carmine Jewel grows well and suckers profusely before quickly dying. So far, no issues with Romeo, though it has grown more slowly and suckered less.
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Interesting. I had this happen to one of my 2 Juliet bushes - the same leaking, etc. But the suckers came back with a vengeance from the root system and would have quickly grown to multiple good sized bushes if I hadn’t decided one Juliet was enough and removed them all (mostly for trades). When yours do that, do they die to the roots?
As an aside, my neighbor has a Montmorency with this same sort of oozing and dying back happening. I helped him cut out the damaged parts last year and it is still alive, but oozing from several new places so we’ll see.
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When mine die, many of the suckers live on. In fact, one of the dead ones was a sucker from a previously dead plant.
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