My Lapins is blooming for the first time this year. Quite a few blooms. How do they taste?
Lapin’s is an excellent cherry. A lot of timees cherries sold as Bing in stores are actually lapin’s.
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Very good…they get very big. Brown rot control///bird protection is a must around here.
So I have a Lapins that looks like it will have a lot of blossoms finally after many years. I sprayed it with Lime/Sulfur plus canola oil spray last week. I have copper spray on hand, but due to sprayer malfunction, I was delayed, so that didn’t get done. I assume it is too late for that now, since they will be blossoming in another week or two. So what is the procedure for preventing brown rot and when do I do it? I am trying to stay as organic as possible, but realize that is not always possible. I live near St. Paul in Wisconsin.
Pray for no rain!!! Do you have a plastic dome?
I have never sprayed anything on my Lapins… I don’t even spray for Plum Curculio (they hit sweet cherries, just not as bad as plums). Its right next to the house, everyone walks right where its growing…so i just leave it. The one year i had the best harvest, was the year we had no rain around ripening time. Rot seems to hold off until they turn darker red…and then it spreads like wildfire any time we get moisture. What i did do last year is i took small sheets of plastic and wrapped a few long branches that held a lot of fruit…that did work…the fruit didn’t cook either, although i did worry about that so i left somewhat of a gap.
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Wow that looks nothing like when it’s on it’s own roots.
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That one looks like it will be 10 ft in a few years. I’ve had one in the ground for 4 yrs and it doesn’t look like Vincent’s. His has less lateral growth and very heavy flowering. @Vincent_8B, keep us updated on that one. The rootstock or very heavy fertilizing or both may be the difference.
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Yes Dennis, I will keep updating. It’s taller than me now. I rather like the tree than bush because of room limitation. Maybe the root stock makes it tall, I try not to use fertilizer much on my fruit trees.
Meanwhile, at the latitude where these cherries were bred, we are having a very very slow start to spring. Supposedly this is the snowiest April ever recorded, it is certainly the snowiest and coldest I can recall, plus a lot of cold rains. I am about 200 miles west of the U of Saskatchewan though. At any rate, here are my Romance cherries on April 23, after yet another snowfall. Envious of all you people enjoying spring blooms and good weather.
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Yes, we have a long winter this year Don.
I think your Carmine blooms very good by now Brady.
Blooming are so evenly and beautiful. It’s self fertile plant. You will have a lot of cherries for sure this year Brady.
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Your cherries still sleep in snow, but they are 6 years old and gave out a lot of information for all of us. We call yours " Master cherries" Don.
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WOW. That could pass as an ornamental…with the bonus of producing great fruit. I hope mine are as beautiful.in the future
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Got my new juliet cherry ‘trees’ yesterday from hbusa. Ordered large size and they are very nice. 5 gal bucket in pic for size reference.
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Wow, those are huge. Did the roots look good? What’s the little plant with the giants? It looks like my Romeo I got from them.
The Romeo I planted month ago has a few flower buds on it! Good to see that. The Juliet, a bigger bush, has lots of new leaves. Our little Crimson Passion twig has put on a few leaves, but hasn’t done much more than that.
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Question on pruning Romance cherries. I planted Carmine Jewel and Crimson Passion form HoneyberryUSA at the same time - Spring of 2013. They both were just few inches high. Last year CJ gave me 5 flowers that brought me 5 berries, this year it is about 4.5 ’ tall and loaded with flowers. It is kind of reasonably dense plant. I am going only prune it a little after it is done with crop, just to remove really out of place or broken branches.
It is a different story with Crimson Passion. It is already 5.5 ’ tall, very-very dense and no a single flower. I wondering, if I prune it heavily to make the canopy light and airy instead of dense, will it get the message and start working on the flower buds, or it will just put all the energy to replace lost green mass?
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