I bought this multi-graft cherry tree yesterday. It has five varieties.
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Which 5?
Montmorrency, Bing, Lapins, Black Tartarian, and I forgot the last variety.
Summoning all my mind reading powers I’m guessing #5 is…Stella…OK I cheated! Will be well pollinated.
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Yup, Stella.
I bet Home Depot won’t tell you what rootstock. The tree looks great!
Only issue will be keeping the three lower weaklings up with the top two. In just one yr two grafts have taken control of the tree.
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I didn’t think you could graft sour to sweet. I wonder how the Montmorency will do?
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That is exactly what happened to my five graft euro pear. I am now left with only two stong grafts. One is ‘seckel’, the other bartlett and neither pollinate each other. Have three new pear trees arriving this spring. Expensive bummer!
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Looks like all 5 scions are budded to the unknown root/trunk. Wonder if the trunk is a sour or sweet cherry or possibly neither. Bill
The trunk is probably a rootstock.
That would be my guess also
I have had good luck with a pluot multi graft tree. It’s easy to manage. If the cultivars are managed closely, positioned correctly etc. It can be done.
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Exactly what happened to mine. Not sure how to remedy this issue on mine.
That’s the weakest graft.
The possible rootstocks could be: Colt, Mazzard, or Maheleb.
That’s what happened on my multi-graft pluot: Dapple Dandy and Flavor Queen have taken over; Flavor King died.
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I will add two additional grafts to this tree: Raineer, and Chocolate Jewel plum.
Flavor King on mine is the most southern position and it is small but is not going to die.
It better not! What an excellent cultivar! It is more winter hardy than any FQ, FS, and DD. So here that kind of balances things! I’m adding to this tree a couple cultivars to help with pollination.
I have the 3x1 pluot and Dapple Dandy is the dominant variety followed by Flavor King and then Flavor Queen. I wanted the 4x1 with Falvor Supreme but Raintree was sold out.