Eastern Sweet Cherries

Jon Clements did some youtube reports on his cherry testing, here’s an example video. I think you can visit his test orchard next year, they have students sell fruit at a farm stand or something

I think his advice was generally “it won’t be profitable here” but he shows a few varieties. rainier, skeena, benton, regina, all on g3 or g5. he’s lost trees to canker here and there

in general I’d look at gisela 3, 5 or 12 over newroot (not g6, it’s canker susceptible) just because they’ve had some testing for canker (raintree carries g3 and g5). they aren’t gold standard for canker, but newroot, from what I’ve seen, hasn’t had comparative testing for it so it may be susceptible. newroot may be a great rootstock but dwn hasn’t subjected it to the kind of comparative testing that gisela got when it arrived and the newer MSU roostocks (clare, cass, etc.) are getting now, so I don’t know what to think about it

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