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Originally Posted by Richard
Must have been poorly gown, or picked unripe, etc.
BTW, Cherry Of The Rio Grande is not related to true cherries. It is in the Myrtle family from south America. True cherries are Prunus.
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Oh, I know they're not real cherries; I have a feeling my little bush ones aren't either. The RGs I sampled
were ripe--as ripe as they could be without falling off of their pits. It may have been a lessor tree because I believe it was grown from seed but those were absolutely horrid.
My sand cherries, should they live long enough to produce, are flavorful (or were in MD) but certainly not a real cherry. (Soak them whole in vodka and you end up with something very close to Cherry Haering/Herring.) If I win the lottery, I'm be buying Royal Lee and Minnie Royal trees and hoping that I get enough chill hours for them to set fruit. (And amping up my squirrel protection.) Until then I'll baby my "not the right zone" but very cheap bushes and buy Bings in the store when I need a cherry fix.
What I really want is one Mahleb tree. From what I've read the fruit is virtually worthless (which is why it's used as a rootstock) but the seeds, when ground, are a marvelous spice.