How do I train a sweet or acid cherry as a bush? First spring after planting: A year old cherry tree will normally have several sidebranches. Select a group of four that are evenly spaced, the lowest ...

Train sweet cherry trees to the open center system with three to five scaffold branches. Sweet cherry trees often grow vertical limbs 6 to 8 feet without branching.

Here's how to tell when cherries are ready for harvesting, plus tips for picking and storing your homegrown fruit.

Sweet cherry trees produce cherries for eating while acid ones produce fruit for cooking with. You can either let your tree grow as normal or you can train it to grow against a wall or another ...

The next cherry variety Tino is planting is 'Lapin' which produces beautiful dark, sweet fruit. Because the position is boxed in on either side by two apple trees, Tino is going to train it into a ...

Lang and Law experimented with unbranched single leader nursery trees of 'Rainier' sweet cherry on 'Gisela 3' rootstock, planted at a spacing of ≈1.5 m and divided into 12 treatment combinations.

Researchers at UBC Okanagan are working to learn more about how sweet cherry trees naturally protect their buds from freezing during cold winter months. Dr. Elizabeth Houghton recently graduated ...

Fruiting cherry trees (as opposed to the ornamental varieties) are loosely divided into two types. The first, known as sweet cherry (Prunus avium), produces fruit sweet enough to eat straight from ...