I’m a fellow east coaster and I too have a dream of growing my own sweet cherries. Luckily I found this forum or I’d have made some bad decisions. My opinion is now if I’m going to grow sweet cherries I’m going to build a high tunnel to plant them in. On the beef farm we have a nice flat 4.7 acre field with great drainage next to a spring that I plan on building one on.
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I need to make friends like yours!
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Even in zone 8 the chill hours were a concern. I got 2 cherries in (caliche) central TX 3rd year after planting Stella, none next year, and 1 cherry each from 2 trees 3 years out in sandy acidic Southern Alabama. Sour cherry there gave me 2 cherries once. All the AL ones died within 10 years no other crops. Now in zone 7 I’m not gonna bother. Maybe get a flowering cherry.
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1 Year later. I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting much in terms of flavor for White Gold, but I am pleasantly surprised
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I got a decently small harvest from mine this year, after the freeze got it last year. It was about a month early, but I don’t complain because the robins were too busy at their nests to get into the fruit. Usually, in June, it’s all pecked and I have to net the tree.
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That looks awesome!
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Taste great too! Compared to the standard grocery store cherries these are a little less sweet and a little more tart and I am finding I actually prefer that
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I have a lapins cherry that is in year 6 this year.
It has not produced ripe fruit yet.
This spring it did bloom quite a bit… large clusters of blossoms… which set fruit… which later all dropped when small and unripe.
Last spring i added 5 grafts of montmorency cherry to it…
This spring we got 1… yes… 1 montmorency cherry.
It was a thing of bueaty… georgious.
My wife and son and I split that thing 3 ways and all got a little taste. Loved it. Hope we get many more next year.
At my new home site… i planted a montmorency cherry this spring. Hopefully more cherries in my future.
TNHunter
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My Lapins took forever to fruit and still has not fruited all that much. The cherries are not that impressive either IMO. Mine is on the grafting block next year. Tired of playing with it. I love Montmorency. It fruits fast and taste great. I grafted over one of my other losers to Monty this year so I could have two trees of it.
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