Olafhenny
08-01-2012, 10:15 PM
Need advice on how to grow cherries from pits.
Last year birds delivered some seeds of Nanking Cherries and deposited those seeds of the shrubs
/trees, which originate in the high UV environment of a mountain range in China, to the darkest
corner of our yard and they thrived like nothing else under this roof overhang at the north side of
our house. The seedlings grew during the first summer to a height of 6 feet and this spring broke
out in beautiful bloom. The bark of the branches is also extremely showy in spring. All that makes
for a very desirable shrub.
More on this story with photos of the beautiful flowers and bark and how I got help in identifying
the shrub see here : http://www.bananas.org/f8/please-help-identify-shrub-15298.html
Unfortunately the Nanking Cherry is not self pollinating and the second shrub, also delivered
to a quite shady spot and transplanted near the first was still quite small and had few blossoms.
The upshot is, that after protecting the seven cherries, I discovered, with netting, I managed to
get 6 of them to ripen and harvest.
Now I am hoping to get advice from this forum on the most promising method to grow cherries
from seeds, so I can get the optimal number of seedlings from that limited supply of pits.
Thank you in advance,
Olaf
Last year birds delivered some seeds of Nanking Cherries and deposited those seeds of the shrubs
/trees, which originate in the high UV environment of a mountain range in China, to the darkest
corner of our yard and they thrived like nothing else under this roof overhang at the north side of
our house. The seedlings grew during the first summer to a height of 6 feet and this spring broke
out in beautiful bloom. The bark of the branches is also extremely showy in spring. All that makes
for a very desirable shrub.
More on this story with photos of the beautiful flowers and bark and how I got help in identifying
the shrub see here : http://www.bananas.org/f8/please-help-identify-shrub-15298.html
Unfortunately the Nanking Cherry is not self pollinating and the second shrub, also delivered
to a quite shady spot and transplanted near the first was still quite small and had few blossoms.
The upshot is, that after protecting the seven cherries, I discovered, with netting, I managed to
get 6 of them to ripen and harvest.
Now I am hoping to get advice from this forum on the most promising method to grow cherries
from seeds, so I can get the optimal number of seedlings from that limited supply of pits.
Thank you in advance,
Olaf