I bought one of these along with several other fruit trees in 2009 from Cummins Nursery. The claim for this cultivar is that it blooms la...Read Morete, thus escaping frost more often. Here's the funny thing: it's true. Mine blooms last, after peaches, pears and even apples. I got a handful of cherries after a couple of years, a bigger handful the next year, then this spring it was covered in blooms so I found some bird netting and used it--it's still a small tree...and harvested 5 1/2 pounds of top quality cherries.
Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) | November 2013 | positive
I bought this tree as a bare root via mail order 10 years ago. It grew nicely. The first taste of cherries, a few, was 2 years later. ...Read MoreNow it produces enough for several cherry pies each year. The cherries are red, with red juice. Very delicious. The tree is more of an upright shape than my other tart cherries. The flowers are pretty in Spring. I have sweet cherries that I have lost crops due to late frost. That has not happened with Surefire.
I bought one of these along with several other fruit trees in 2009 from Cummins Nursery. The claim for this cultivar is that it blooms la...Read More
I bought this tree as a bare root via mail order 10 years ago. It grew nicely. The first taste of cherries, a few, was 2 years later. ...Read More
A new bright red pie cherry from Stark Brothers.