Juliet Cherry

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One of the reasons I wanted to graft my prune plum to a Nanking cherry was that the prune suckered like crazy and the Nanking cherry did not. That worked nicely - might be worth a try for you. And I’m sure the Juiliet and Nanking cherry will be compatible. Here’s more on that:

Prune grafted to Nanking cherry bearing

Thought I’d post a couple shots of my prune plum grafted to Nanking cherry- here it is at about 10 years old with its first decent fruit load. You’ll see the deer have been helping with pruning, but not a great deal. The logic in the graft was two-fold: we wanted a prune that didn’t sucker and which didn’t get too big. So far so good- but it took forever to mature! It’s brother on its own roots took just as long, however There’s more on the subject here: The ongoing saga of the prune on nankin…