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[Arielle2]

Thanks, that's helpful. Is it too late to buy one this year?

And aw that's awesome!

Definitely not too late to p lant ... but finding stock will take just a little searching. When I looked around, it was easy to find 3-4 sources. SpringHill is out of Carmine Jewel but has Romeo for about $20....which is the best price I could find.

 

[Arielle2]

Here is info from Monrovia. A different description somewhat than SpringHill. I didnt realize it was a sour cherry--which is fine as I like frozen sour cherries and dont use real sugar.

Romeo™ Sour Cherry
Prunus cerasus 'Romeo'

Plant Description
Beautiful clusters of fragrant, white, self-pollinating flowers in mid-spring. Abundant clusters of dark purple-red fruit in midsummer. Glossy green foliage turns yellow in the fall. Excellent variety for cooking, baking, and canning. Wonderful flavor for jellies and jams. Deciduous.

 

[Arielle2]

Again from Monrovia.

Carmine Jewel™ Dwarf Cherry
Prunus fruticosa x cerasus

Plant Description
Extremely hardy and perfect for cold winter areas. Self-fertile, producing large purplish-red fruit with dark red flesh and scrumptious, rich flavor, packed with antioxidants. Excellent for eating fresh, superb in pies, preserves,or drying. Dwarf, shrub-like form is perfect for landscape or orchard.

History:
Carmine Jewel was released in 1999, the first in a series of cherries released by the University of Saskatchewan's hardy cherry breeding program. The breeding of dwarf sour cherries began in the 1940's by Dr. Les Kerr. The past 50 years of breeding have combined cold hardiness, dwarf stature and good fruit quality into the varieties being introduced today. Carmine Jewel offers great tart flavor with dark flesh, a high sugar content and compact size for smaller landscapes and easy harvest.
Lore:
Carmine Jewel™ Dwarf Cherry is self-fertile, but planting another cherry nearby for cross-pollination will increase fruit yield.
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Gardens Alive source


Carmine Jewel Dwarf Cherry

Delicious mix of sweet and sour
Large, gorgeous, purplish-red fruit with a luscious balance of high sugars and a complement of acids.

• It does not require a pollinator to produce fruit, but having another cherry (Nanking, sandcherry) nearby will increase productivity.

• Restricted States: AE AK CO GU HI OR PR WA

 

[Arielle2]

gardens alive info on Romeo


Romeo™ Dwarf Cherry

High-yield and cold hardy


Fruit sweet enough for fresh eating, but with enough tartness to make them perfect for pies. At 7-8 ft. high and wide, this is a perfect tree/ bush for the home garden. Self-pollinating, but does even better when two varieties are planted.

 

[Arielle2]

All SOUR cherries ( Montmorency, Meteor, North Star, etc.) are self pollinating. Sour cherries WILL NOT pollinate sweet varieties. 2. Almost all SWEET cherries (Van, Bing, Viva, Black Tartarian and others) need cross pollination with a different variety of sweet cherry.
pollination needs - Flowerland
myflowerland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pollination-needs-home-orchard.pdf
Other fruit trees, like most apple, plum, sweet cherry and pears are cross-pollinatingor self-unfruitful. They need another tree for pollination, and not just one of the same variety, but a different variety of the same fruit. For example, most sweetcherries must be pollinated with compatible sweet cherry trees.
Cross-Pollinate Fruit Trees - Lowe's
https://www.lowes.com/projects/gardening-and-outdoor/cross-pollinate-fruit

 

[Arielle2]

good description of the 6-8 dwarf cherries.
http://www.artsnursery.com/blog/dwarf-cherries-an-exciting-edible

and dont miss this one--super info on the size of fruit, flavor and pittability
http://www.fruit.usask.ca/dwarfsourcherries.html

all around great infor for home orchards and pollination needs of MANY fruit trees/ bushes
http://myflowerland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pollination-needs-home-orchard.pdf

 

[ShrekDawg]

Wow thanks so much for all the info!! It's really helpful!!

I sent all those links to my dad btw haha

good description of the 6-8 dwarf cherries.
http://www.artsnursery.com/blog/dwarf-cherries-an-exciting-edible

and dont miss this one--super info on the size of fruit, flavor and pittability
http://www.fruit.usask.ca/dwarfsourcherries.html

all around great infor for home orchards and pollination needs of MANY fruit trees/ bushes
http://myflowerland.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pollination-needs-home-orchard.pdf

 

[ShrekDawg]

And for Romeo, on the Gurneys site it said it was technically sour but it was one of the sweetest of the sours and real sweet

 

[Arielle2]

These are described as sweet, not tart, not sour....per Naturehill , a seller.
A cherry by any other name wouldn’t be as sweet!
So you want to pick baskets of fresh cherries from your own garden, but you don’t have the space for a cherry tree. Are you out of luck? Not at all! Juliet Cherry Tree (Prunus 'Juliet') will give you pound after pound of berries (up to 25 pounds after 5 years!) on a shrub that only reaches 5’-8’ tall!

This gorgeous fruiting tree never gets out of bounds, staying small and yielding profusely. It fits into the garden just like a landscape shrub. Imagine the look on your neighbors face when your new foundation plant begins fruiting cherries! Its dwarf habit and love of sunshine make it excellent for beds, borders, fence lines and anywhere else you would normally grow a large ornamental shrub. It incorporates well into any landscape. It has glossy green foliage from spring to frost and abundant white flowers before the cherries set.

And these aren’t just any cherries – these are the sweetest cherries that you’ve ever tasted! They are often scored the highest of all other sweet cherries in competitions – up to 20-brix sugar level. They have a rich, complex flavor in larger than average sized fruits (but not so large they are challenging to pit).

They are deep lipstick red and are great for fresh eating, baking, ice-cream and jams. They also freeze beautifully!

Easy to care for and easy to harvest. Juliet is destined for a happy ending in your own garden!

* Self-pollinating
* Sweetest cherries for the home garden
* Sun lover
* Fits into any landscape
* True dwarf only gets 5-8 feet tall
* Beautiful spring flowers

 

[Arielle2]

And for Romeo, on the Gurneys site it said it was technically sour but it was one of the sweetest of the sours and real sweet

Very crazy. Knowing if it is a "sweet" or a "sour" is the first step to deciding if it needs a pollinator.

Still searching.

stella is a sweet that is self fertile, but one of the above links indicates its a good pollinator.