>>>>Ah, it took me half an hour to remember what I wanted to ask you, as the day is coming soon... cherry blossom, nice, attended a couple of times (japanese community in Virginia Beach is still strong) but now I realized that I don't know the main fact. Is it sweet or sour cherry? As they are separate species.
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>I was a "nonresident" for tax purposes resident of Hampton, VA for several years.
Then we probably were sort of neighbors for a while.
>>Well, waiting for mine to blossom... in a few weeks. And then to make brandy of them - mostly the sour, having more sugar, but actually the craziest result I got was with 25% sweet and 75% sour... Because of the names, I call that brandy hare trišnja :).
> FYI Sour Cherry trees such as Montmorency cherries are self pollinating and produce fruit when a single cherry tree is planted, however, sweet cherries require a separate cherry cultivar to produce fruit. The rule for sweet cherry cross pollination is to plant a light colored sweet cherry to cross pollinate another sweet light colored cherry. Likewise, plant a dark Bing sweet cherry tree to pollinate dark Black Tartarian sweet cherry trees.
There are always enough of them so even if I had only one, the bees would find a partner in the neighborhood. The best thing we did with the sweet ones is that we planted them closer to the house, so when I get thirsty at the other end of the orchard I go only halfway :). I don't know the names of cultivars, the labels fell off (and it was up to nine years ago) but the kind I like the best are the somewhat harder ones, which literally explode in your mouth once the skin bursts. The taste... well, my mouth is watering as I write this :).
> They are picky. I have tried to grow them here in Florida but I never had much luck. My peach trees ( pink blooms) and pear trees (white blooms) are both in full bloom now.
They grow real big over here. The tallest one in front of the house will probably be visited by electricity maintenance next year, and it's just ten years old. And the trunk is already thicker than I can hold in both palms.
