Growing Fruit Tree from Seed

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I think if you are in Kansas you want to get WhiteGold, BlackGold or another disease resistant cultivar grafted on a good rootstock. You need a sweet cherry tree that is known to work in the Eastern United States. Brown rot, cracking, insects and birds make growing sweet cherries in the East very difficult. I would read through the Eastern sweet cherry thread below.

Eastern Sweet Cherries

Interesting sweet cherry article shown below. This article is interesting to us in Kansas because bacterial canker is a problem here as well like in the east. https://www.canr.msu.edu/uploads/files/Research_Center/NW_Mich_Hort/Training_Pruning_Varities/SweetCherryVarietiesEasternUS_2004.pdf “Sweet Cherry Varieties for Eastern U.S. By: Robert L. “Bob” Andersen, Professor of Horticulture, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, N.Y.S.A.E.S., Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456 Briners - Sweet cher…