Sweet cherries are adapted to climates with dry summers. (Their native range extends from western Europe across the Mediterranean to the ...Read MoreCaucasus and northern Iran.) In wet-summer climates, like that of the eastern US, the fruits are much given to cracking while ripening.
This is why commercial production in North America is generally limited to the west coast.
Sweet cherries are not self-fertile and need a different sweet cherry cultivar for cross-pollination.
Sweet cherries are the best cherries for fresh eating. The best cherries for pies, jam, and cooking in general are sour cherries, P. cerasus.
Pinon Hills, CA (Zone 8a) | November 2011 | positive
This cherry tree grows rapidly compared to most cherries trees. I planted this tree last year with a trunk diameter of about 1 inch and n...Read Moreow this year, it has a diameter of about 3 inches. The flowers are beautiful in the spring and during the fall, the leaves turn colors with reds, oranges, and yellows. It's beautiful in the fall! I haven't had any cherries yet and I assume it's because the tree is still young. I have had no problems with this tree so far even though it's growing in sandy compacted soil.
Hello everyone! I'm from south Ontario, Canada. I got a cherry tree grafted with 4 verieties include Bing. Now here comes a problem would...Read More not get solved by my poor experience: do I still need another cherry tree to be the pollinator? I would like to try planting a cherry tree but as it can grow into a giant, I probably don't have enough space for 2 giants to stay together in my front yard! I hope someone has the genius answer. Thanks in advance!
I planted a standard-size Bing cherry in my yard three years ago. The tree was obtained from a local hardware store. The same year I al...Read Moreso ordered several cherry trees from a mail order nursery, so that Bing would have a polinator. Sadly, the mail order trees did not survive, (I suspect due to arriving far too late for planting in my area.) Bing, however, has exceded my wildest expactations! The tree grew from aprox 4 feet tall at planting to 8 feet by the end of summer. The following year, it doubled in size again, and is currently aprox 16 feet tall with a 4-inch trunk. It is apparent that the tree does not enjoy our prolonged summer heat, as it's leaves look yellow and tattered by the end of summer, however it continues to grow like a trooper.
I have since obtained several more fine trees locally, and hope to have my first cherry crop this year.
Such memories this tree brings back! I grew up in Western Pennsylvania. There was an enormous Bing Cherry tree on the western part of t...Read Morehe yard, and every spring it would erupt with the most beautiful blossoms. The best part was in summer when the tree was loaded with sweet, plump, red cherries and you had to climb the tree and pick them before the birds got to them. This is my favorite tasting of all cherries...my mom used to bake pies of them and that's still my favorite pie in the world. Things change and now I live in Florida where we can't grow temperate cherries.
It does need a pollinator...my dad had a black tartarian cherry tree to pollinate. Its cherries were good but nowhere near as good as the bing cherries.
One of the most widely-known commercial varieties, 'Bing' has large, heart-shaped deep cherry red fruit. Good for eating fresh and for c...Read Moreanning. Requires another variety for pollination.
Sweet cherries are adapted to climates with dry summers. (Their native range extends from western Europe across the Mediterranean to the ...Read More
This cherry tree grows rapidly compared to most cherries trees. I planted this tree last year with a trunk diameter of about 1 inch and n...Read More
I wouldn't expect it to get 30 ft tall. Most I've seen are 20 ft at most. Black gold is a very good pollinator for it though.
Hello everyone! I'm from south Ontario, Canada. I got a cherry tree grafted with 4 verieties include Bing. Now here comes a problem would...Read More
I planted a standard-size Bing cherry in my yard three years ago. The tree was obtained from a local hardware store. The same year I al...Read More
What other cherry tree makes the best pollinator for the "Bing" cherry?
Such memories this tree brings back! I grew up in Western Pennsylvania. There was an enormous Bing Cherry tree on the western part of t...Read More
One of the most widely-known commercial varieties, 'Bing' has large, heart-shaped deep cherry red fruit. Good for eating fresh and for c...Read More