I’m not sure. Most weeping cherries are considered to be Prunus x subhirtella, a hybrid between two Japanese species and are grown for their flowers, not fruit. I did a little googling and found that they can graft onto Prunus mahaleb. So if a graft onto Prunus avium doesn’t work, the mahaleb might work as an interstem.
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That would be so fun to try. I don’t have any right now, but I’ll try it sometime.
The neighbor’s cherry is older than 80 years old, btw. Huge and fertile. I now have weeping cherries in my woods 
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Looks like you got a good set of fruit on your CP. How did they taste?
It was last year in this thread. I must have just pictured the video part in my head as listening to it.
Thanks, @mamuang. Some sort of disease was definitely an issue for me last year and my best guess was cherry leaf spot, so I may use the Immunox again. I’m sorry to need clarification; when referencing times according to bloom, is that just flower bloom? I’m not sure I had many flowers last year. I did have a few and even had a fruit start then die, but I wondered if you meant leafing out or if bloom strictly means flowers.
I had to look up canker. Don’t think I’ve seen it (yet!) but did come across a neat podcast interview with Dr. Bob Bors, who worked on the romance series bushes. It talks about their history, name, and a bit of pruning advice. I do wonder if I’m just a bit too south/ humid here in northern va. We get cold out here and I’m probably 6b-ish but maybe the humidity fostered the fungal disease last year. Not sure.
Thanks again, everyone.
Here’s a link to the podcast if anyone’s interested https://orchardpeople.com/episode-7-no-room-for-a-cherry-tree-try-a-cherry-shrub/
Thanks Jerry. What about Romance on Nanking? Montmorency?
Should work fine on Montmorency . Nanking is really a plum as I recall .
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Yes , nanking is a plum, I tried grafting a few sticks of Juliet to one just as a test , it did not take
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I was just showing the link to where the podcast was that I had heard a year ago. I do know what leaf spot is.
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I put Juliet on Montmorency last spring. She grew well and is alive and happy this year, too.
I’m hoping she’ll grow more tree-like like Drew mentioned happens on rootstock. I want one main scaffold to be Juliet. I’ll keep everyone posted on how that progresses.
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would like to try this on mine once my bushes get a little bigger. what type graft did you use?
That would’ve been a z-graft. It was on the tip of the branch so it could be high enough for dominance of that scaffold. The scaffolds are still pretty skinny on my young Montmorency.
Chip budding at the end of the summer also worked, with Juliet on Carmine Jewel in that case. Our falls are much longer than yours, though.
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Thanks everybody-I have several older Montmorency that are shy bearers here. They are loaded in Madison, WI 20 miles away. There is one volunteer here that bears fine-go figure. Meteor and Northstar also bear poorly. I’ll topwork them over to Romance. Still looking for scionwood.
Ive got some CJ and Juliet I could send…
if my mont. doesn’t produce well, its good to know i can take scions of my juliet and cj and graft them on. may do so to some branches anyway. esp. juliet. the lutowka cherry i just ordered is also compatable.
Hi Derek-that is nice of you. Please PM me and we will make arrangements.
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if my mont. doesn’t produce well, its good to know i can take scions of my juliet and cj and graft them
Do you gain much by doing that? The bushes grow pretty fast on their own and you don’t need a ladder to tend them. Let us know how it goes. I suppose it takes care of any suckering problem.
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I just bought a second Juliet in an impulse buy at my local garden center. They had clearly just received their big spring shipment of fruit trees and there amongst dozens of trees that offer little hope of success in VA were a number of interesting options, including a pair of Juliet cherries potting in 3 gallon pots. The one I picked was showing just the tips of green on its buds, more or less exactly where the Juliet I planted last year is so I went ahead and bought it.
I have never actually had a Juliet cherry but my one bush seems likely to produce at least a handful this year… I have high hopes because I just love cherries even if the standard sweet ones don’t do well here.
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what size and cost?
