Nanking Bush Cherry

Mine is loaded again this year. The fruit also seems to be a bit larger this year than in years past. I think I might actually be able to make a pie with little trouble :-)

Purty!!!

I have a Nanking White and it's never produced! (Three or four years old now.)

Do you have a pollinator of a different type?

(Them cherries sho' do look good in that pic!)

No Shoe, they're self pollinating supposedly. It was probably 4-5 years before I had fruit on mine. They bore heavy last year, and that was the first time. The two years before that, the seeds were just barely covered by a skin, and that was all I got. I think these have been in the ground for 8 years this year...

I have do have 5 of them in a row though. Pretty pretty when they blossom, I'll see if I can find a picture.

Do they root from cuttings? I'd send you some cuttings if you want.

How big is your bush? Mine are about 6 feet tall and probably 4 feet wide. Amazing since they were just sticks when we planted them.

Wow! Six ft tall? Mine is only about 3 ft tall, and 3 ft wide. (A baby.)

My intentions were to just buy one, take cuttings and root them, then put in a whole row of them. Haven't gotten around to trying to root any...maybe I will this year. Guess I better get out there and start with some new-growth cuttings and see how it goes. I'll let you know.

Thanks for the response! Cherries! Good to look at, good for your heart, goood for your tastebuds, and Goodness Gracious I better check my bush first thing in the morning!

I'll have to take a pic of my Montmorency Cherry tomorrow. It was just a stick when we planted it,and it's every bit of 15 feet tall now, it has a lot of fruit on it this year as well, not as much as last year, but like the Nanking, I think the fruit is bigger.

When I was growing up, we had a Cherry Tree in the front yard. Every year when the fruit got ripe, my dad would hook up the elevator to the tractor, and put it into the tree so I could just walk up the elevator and pick to my hearts content. My mom would pit them, then I'd make a pie for my dad. He said my mom put too much sugar in hers... he liked his cherry pie so you could still taste a little bit of the sour in the cherries. :-)

Having Cherries on the trees brings back good memories. :-) Hubby doesn't like his pies as sour as I like mine. :-) But, he doesn't refuse a slice. :-)

Here is a picture of blooms... are you getting blooms on yours? It seems that mine would bloom, but not as heavily as they do now.

Melissa for years I looked at adds for those cherry bushes but figured they were a gurneys come on and I refused the urge to try some. I have stuck with the Montmoracy and have two treas both the same age one is the picture and producer a cherry tree is supposed to be like the other is a dud but it's under the protection of the godmother so year after year it stays a joke. Everytime I threaten to hook it up to a deere called john she cry's right to life and it is spared one more time.

Your bush is very pretty makes me envious and sorry I didn't try one. I may be wrong but it seems like I remember them being offered as a black sweet type as well. Ernie