I harvested most of mine today. I did harvest some last week. But now they are all dark red and very uniform in color. The cherries seem bigger each year too.
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One man’s meat! I love their flavor, much better to me than any sweet cherry. I’m not big on fresh eating, and sweets are about only good for that. They for the most part taste terrible cooked, and yellow ones turn a dung brown that is so not attractive. I dry my sweets to make them actually sweet.
That mold looks nasty, looks like my grapes! I use lime-sulfur and it appears to kill it on my grapes. But yeah if that happened to me, I probably would cull them too. So far I have not seen that on any cherries. I do spray mine for brown rot as I need to spray my pluots, plums, nectarines and peaches. So yeah the cherries are sprayed too!
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That’s brown rot. Don’t cut your tree get in on the next indar buy. That will keep that rot from happening. It started on mine too this year with the sweet cherries but I did save some when I finally used the indar. It only takes 1/4 teaspoon of indar per gallon to get rid of fungus so you don’t need a lot of it. One half pint goes a long ways.
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ive got some rot going on this year Also. first year ever… group buy indar?
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Have problems on my peaches this year with brown rot.
They only sell Indar by the gallon so people have been buying it and splitting the cost up. It’s over a $100.00 a gallon and it’s hard to use up a pint.
It’s the best spray for rot, but they recommend alternating with another so the rot doesn’t get immune to it.
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I sawed it last night. Every single cherry on that tree had rot. I think one or 2 that didn’t had curculio in them (that i feed to my zerba danios which love them). I still have Juliet but that too might get the saw. One issue i’ve seen (and i’m seeing right now in my black raspberries) is SWD. I had them in my CJ last year (the few i had). I think that will be an issue with Juliet which i think is a later ripener. Can’t win man! Better stick to potatoes and tomatoes 
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Raspberries are the SWD magnet.bb
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My carmine jewel suckers spread 10 feet away from its mother plant I have small yard, one carmine jewel is way enough for me. What I am going to do with all the suckers, there are 4 found so far?
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dig and share with the neighbors.
Not sure neighbor likes sour cherry.
friends family?
If I am not a fan of sour cherry, I doubt my majority of friends and family will be. I can try to talk into a friend whose husband has gout issue take one . Sour cherry juice is helping with the pain I heard. but the rest loves sweet cherry for fresh eating
Usually fruit trees don’t have runner like this, iI didn’t expect it runs cross the yard 10 feet away.
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This year I had one Carmine Jewel cherry and two Juliet cherries from one same bush… I let them hang until they fell into bags.
Juliet iwas sour. Carmine Jewel was very sour. I don’t know how people could eat them by a handful.
My friend’s mother has gout. Her doctor recommended she eat sour cherries. My friend is looking to plant a Juliet.
I used to grow Danube, a sour cherry. Ripened Dannube were tasty and sweet compared to these bush cherries. If not because of a lack of production, my Danube would still be here and beated any of these cherries taste-wise.
My Juliets sucker a fair bit and I just dig them out when dormant and offer them as bare root along with scion, etc. in the trading post section. They are small enough to ship easily and so far it seems that any I sent have survived. I also have 4 CJ and 6 Juliets suckers growing in a nursery bed for my own expansion plans once I make some room, since we love sour cherries.
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Trade is a good idea, although I might have to trade them every year afterward👍 thanks.
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I think sour cherry has more flavor. if used in pie the sugar will balance the sourness out. The problem is that I am on some kinda low sugar diet and don’t eat much dessert. Cherry pie had never been my favorite dessert start out with.
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Agreed that sour cherries are excellent for pies. Carmine Jewel is way too sour for me for fresh eating.
I prefer eating fresh fruit to processed/sweetened fruit.
Eating a couple of your first cherries isn’t a good comparison. I ate a the few that I had last year which tasted s lot different than the ones from this year. Plus you have to let them hang for a while after turning red. This year my Juliet had a sweet taste at first like cherry. Last year it tasted like fruit punch. I myself still need to get them by the gallons to get the full effect of the flavor. I would have had a quite a few but some how they vanish as I check on them, lol.
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