NOTE: This is part 11 in a series of 11 articles. For a complete background on how to grow cherry trees , we recommend starting from the beginning. Sweet cherry trees will start bearing fruit in years under normal growing conditons with proper maintenance and care.
Sour cherry trees will start bearing fruit in years under normal growing conditions with proper maintenance and care. One sure sign that red cherries are getting ripe is when the birds start visiting your tree for breakfast. One way to do this is to cover your tree with lightweight nets. Our Garden Nets keep fruit safe from attack. They are easy to use and last for years.
The sugar content increases significantly during the last few days of ripening, so wait to harvest your cherries until they are firm and fully red.
Neither type of cherry will continue to ripen after it has been picked. Fresh cherries are highly prone to freeze damage. Pour them out into shallow pans and remove any mushed, soft or rotting cherries Even under ideal conditions cherries will only keep for a few days in a refrigerator, so for best flavor and texture, consume or freeze them as soon as possible after purchase.
See my How to freeze berries page. Unless you're going to make jam right away Now, get ready to make Cherry jam - It is VERY easy - especially with our free Cherry preserves instructions - illustrated and easy or cherry pie filling Cherry Recipes, Canning, Jam, Jelly, and related resources Cherry preserves instructions - illustrated and easy Cherry jelly Cherry pie filling Cherry butter Cherry festivals Cherry pitters - reviews and where to get them How to pit cherries - several methods Cherry varieties For a master table of cherry varieties in the order in which they ripen, click here.
Sweet cherries: Bing cherries are deep red in color and sweet. Blackgold - very late mid-season. Good for eating fresh. Brooks - a large, firm red cherry that tolerates hot climates. Sweet with both complex flavors and a sweet tart blackberry-like taste.
Chelan - deep, mahogany red, heart-shaped, medium sized, sweet fruits, like Bing. Coral Champagne - very large, red, super sweet fruit that is often preferred to Bing. Firm, but juicy flesh with a coral pink color center. Emperor Francis are White or Blush Sweet Cherries, Early season, perfect for canning, making jellies and jams, or making homemade maraschinos. Hartland , an early season dark cherry. A Windsor cross, it was developed in New York Hedelfingen is a later season sweet cherry.
It has large, black fruit. Kristin cherries are a a mid-season cherry developed in New York. Lambert Cherry is a large, black, late harvest cherry of very good quality, compared to Bing. Lapins Cherry is a self-fruitful, large, dark red sweet cherry from Canada with firm, good flavor.
Ripens a few days after Bing and needs only chilling hours or less to produce fruit. Orondo Ruby - A ruby red color with some gold coloring, this is a sweeter, brighter variant of the Rainier cherry. They have a brighter red color to them and a sweeter and a bit more acidic.
Rainier cherries are golden yellow with a pink or red blush. Rainier cherries are large and sweet. Royalton cherries are large, dark cherry mid-season cherries Sam - early ripening, large, black sweet cherry. Ripens 11 days after Vista. Skeena cherries are a late ripening variety. They are dark red, firm and juicy. Somerset cherries are medium sized, later season cherries that are dark and firm.
Sonata - Very large, black, and moderately sweet fruit. Staccato cherries are a deep purple-red and also a late season variety. Staccato cherries are large and one of the sweetest varieties.
Stella are a large, sweet, dark-red fruit that ripens in mid-season Sweetheart cherries are a large, bright red late-season variety, medium sweetness Sunburst - large, firm fruit. Old productive variety. Symphony - bright red, medium-sweet very large fruit. Late season. Tehranivee - mid-season cherry developed in Ontario, Canada. Cracking can be a problem. Ulster - medium-sized, firm, dark cherry, Ripens about 2 days after Vista.
Vandalay - Large, red fruit with an unusual kidney shape. From Canada. Viscount - medium-large, firm, good, dark red cherries. Late season ripening. Vista - the cherries are very dark, almost black. Large excellent-quality fruit. Mid season, ripens around the last week in June. Ripens around July 4. White Gold are a blush cherry of moderate to large size. Pie, Sour or Tart Cherries all different names for the same thing!
Balaton Ujfeherto Furtos is a Hungarian sour cherry with firm fruit that is suited to picking by hand and eating fresh. Red skin and flesh. Ripens about 7 to 10 days after Montmorency Danube Erdi Botermo has dark red fruit with a unique sweet-tart flavor. Delicious eaten fresh or in baked goods. These are the only tart cherries we are able to ship fresh due to their firm and hearty quality. We have these available year round individually quick frozen in our markets and shipping them in the winter months.
Dark sweet cherries ripening on the tree ready for U-Pick at King Orchards. Our early to mid-season black sweet cherry, Cavalier is a terrific black sweet cherry with medium to large fruit. This is our favorite u-pick variety. Our mid to late season black cherry, Sams extends our season. The tree is a heavy bearer, with grape-like clusters of fruit. Ulster, a later cherry, is very sweet and firm.
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