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| sickpup |
growing a cherry treeIve found a cherry tree near where i live, could i grow a seed but keep the size of the tree down and still get cherrys? |
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| Chez |
Possibly you could espalier it - don't cherries like to be against a north-facing wall? | ||
| Northern_Lad |
I think so, but I'm also fairly sure that cherries don't grow true from seed. |
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| Blue Peter |
I don't know whether cherries come true or at least useful from seed, but, in either case cherry trees are big. So, your seed will want to grow into something big. If you want a small one, you need to have an appropriate rootstock (Gisella, is the best, I think).
I suppose that you could grow your cherry from seed and at an appropriate point graft it onto some Gisella rootstock. But I think that you'd only do that if you particularly liked the cherry which you are growing (and, as I say, I don't know if they come true or useful from seed). I would think that it would be far easier just to buy a variety (or two, if not self-fertile) which you like, is suited to your area, on an appropriate rootstock, Peter. P.S. I think that it's only "sour" cherries which you grow on north-facing walls. |
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| tahir |
Cherries don't grow true and they are a vigorous tree, I'd suggest a named self fertile variety on Gisela 5 (dwarf rootstock), the other downside to growing from see is that it'll take years to fruit. | ||
| tahir |
They tolerate them. All fruit does better with loads of sun |
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| JB |
If you just grow from a seed it will almost certainly not work. The usual propagation technique for fruit trees is to graft the desired fruit to a rootstock of something else. If you just grow from seed the fruit may not come true so you might not have edible fruit and the habit will probably revert to that of a wild cherry tree which may well be taller than you want.
(NB I haven't tried propagating cherries but that's the usual case for apples, pears etc so I suspect it's also the case for most fruit trees) |
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| Chez |
Hmm. Am I thinking of Morellos?:
http://www.talatonplants.co.uk/ShowDetails.asp?id=242 |
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| tahir |
Yeah, but it'll do better in full sun. |
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| sickpup |
Ok thanks everyone for your help. |