Pin cherry

General Fruit Growing
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Anyone have any experience growing pin cherry seeds ? I assume that they need stratification? I see some for sale on Amazon. Thoughts?

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A wild cherry tree, I hear they are small, and are best for jam. If by seed I might go for cherry plums or wild plums.Still small, but a bit more meat. I’m about to plant some orange seeds. Sugar Belle seeds.

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I should have clarified Drew, my thoughts were for rootstock

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Wow! OK, that is an excellent question! I wish I could answer it. Well give it a go for sure worth trying. Good idea too!!

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I saw it mentioned on a thread when I did a search. I try to read everything but it’s tuff to do and then to remember it all. I missed it somehow. There is really a wealth of knowledge on here.

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I bought some seed also . Time will tell if they grow . I planted them last fall outdoors .

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Did you buy them on line? What are you Planning to put on them? On a side note when I planted Nankings in the fall a few came up the first year, most came up the second spring.

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If you put the seeds in water the floaters are the junk seeds and the others are what you want to plant. I then wrap the seeds in a moist paper towell put it in a glass jar and put it in the refrigerator. When the seeds sprout plant them out.

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I planted some sweet cherry and none came up the first year, so I’m hoping this year to see them come up! I have hope now!

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I planted a bunch of sweet cherry pits and got one to come up, ever. I don’t think they are quite as easy as Nankings. I still have the single sweet, second leaf this spring.

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I got them from Alcedo (RIP), he had that famous spotted cherry he grew out from seed.
He gave me some from the tree that made that cherry, and others too. So hoping something happens. I checked the seed last year, dug one up, it was intact, so some may still come up. I have no plans to try again.

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Can I ask what you are grafting to the pincherry and what advantages it has, disease resistance? tree hardiness?. I have access to some rootstock sized ones and was looking into what to put on them.

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I was thinking about a carmine jewel

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I know for sure you can graft sweet cherries to pin cherries. I’ve been told sour cherries can be grafted to pin cherries but I have no way to confirm that. Remember like my stubborn wild callery pears they may or may not graft easily. An orchardist has not reached their full potential as a grafter until they develop the skills needed to graft wild and stubborn trees. Domestic rootstocks yield nearly 100% success grafting every time. Wild rootstocks may graft easy or extremely difficult because they are all genetically different.

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I am not planning to graft to mine . I planted mine in Mn in its native range . I like jelly made from them . Local wild patches are now hard to find . Plus I have wondered if it is possible to cross to sour cherries for the same taste in a bigger cherry .

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I did a little research this morning and it sounds like pin cherry seeds can remain dormant for many years in the soil but are stimulated to grow after a fire ( pin cherry aka fire cherry)

I wonder what about the fire would stimulate growth, wood ash leaching into the soil?

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When I was in my early teenage years I grew my apples in cigarette ashes and dirt in the winter. Every ash tray in the house got used for growing apples! They grew fantastic. We dumped our burn barrel ashes in and old tractor tire that was our compost bin when I was a little boy. Once the ashes were dumped on the pile hundreds of peaches came up the following year. I’ve never grown cherries like that but I sure have seen other seeds respond well to Ash.

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Anyone bought seeds from treeseeds.com? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of options for pin cherry seeds out there.

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I have ordered all types of seeds from this company, they have pin cherry seeds, are reputable and good. Although they are a Canadian company they are registered to ship world wide. Gardens North They usually are able to give you germinating instructions if you contact them.

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Thanks for the first hand knowledge.