Ugh… It took forever to scroll to the latest post. And no, on the android app for this site there isn’t a scroll button or slide bar.
I did stop by to look at some of the photos…maybe one day I’ll be posting my own photos, just not of this variety (not enough chill here).
To scroll tap the number showing the amount of replies in a post and scroll to rhe bottom that way.
Solved!!!
Thanks. That wasn’t obvious at all. The app isn’t supported for android Google Play store anymore so I figured it just didn’t have many options.
Need some advice on my three Carmine Jewels. They’re about 8 years old–three bushes planted too close, 5’ spacing and now they are really crowded. Also about 9’ high. They peaked on production at about year 4–(lots of cherries!), now don’t get much. There is a lot of non-productive wood inside.
I’m thinking about removing the middle bush and really doing a major renewal pruning job on the remaining two next spring. Maybe taking them back down to 4’.
Your thoughts on this strategy? Thanks.
I would guess you have lots of suckers sprouting up now, too.
you cut that middle one, make sure you put some crossbow on the stumps and be ready to spray or transplant the sprouts that survive. its probably a good idea to remove it and prune it down some. mine are about 10ft apart and that’s about right. even 12’ might be even better to allow more air in there.
you ever get brown rot on them? i did for the 1st time in 23’. to save them i needed to prune out the center of the bushes to increase airflow. i was a warm , wet summer so not typical and i wasn’t able to spray them. that’s a insane amount of fruit.
they obviously were bred for the midwest. we continue to get warmer and wetter here.
I have lost whole crops like that of Carmine jewels and Romeos to worms, even with sprays of Spinosad, apparently from rain washing it off or waiting too long between sprays. Other years I have hit it right and picked huge amounts.
Ive found these bushes are very drought tolerant. Mine do fine with no irrigation in ND, and we got HOT and DRY in august sometimes. My haskap will die without irrigation, but cherries do fine with none at all. Now I just wish they didnt sucker so badly!
It’s interesting at first we wished they would start suckering then we realize what we have !
It does suckers a lot. Initial I enjoy using the suckers as rootstock
Now, I got all the cherry trees I can graft and grow in my yard. I don’t need more rootstocks, but the suckers continue popping up.
@clarkinks Do you ever juice any of your cherries? Thinking about getting a juicer for mine this year.
That is what i do with most of them yes. You can see the type of juicer i use in this thread Clarkinks older fruit and vegetable growing Projects in Kansas
Would Carmine Jewell Cherry grow and produce on sweet cherry seedling as rootstock?
I have some volunteer cherries at the bottom of the property that I’m protecting
if grafted sweets successfully on monty but the ones i tried on c.j and juliet didnt take for me.
