🍒 Cherry (Sweet)
Fruit Trees · growing reference
| To first harvest | ~3 years – ~5 years, by type |
|---|---|
| Spacing | 240″ in the row × 288″ between rows |
| Planted as | tree |
| Water | ~1–1.5 in a week |
When to plant
In USDA zone 6, for example: Plant around Mar 4, while the stock is still dormant — bare-root wants to be in the ground before it leafs out.
| Spring | |
|---|---|
| Zone 3 | Apr 3 |
| Zone 4 | Mar 26 |
| Zone 5 | Mar 15 |
| Zone 6 | Mar 4 |
| Zone 7 | Feb 18 |
| Zone 8 | Feb 1 |
| Zone 9 | Jan 9 |
Dates are the typical window for each zone's average frost dates — your own last frost can differ by a couple of weeks. Zone 10 and warmer is effectively frost-free: plant to the season, not the frost. Southern Hemisphere: shift six months.
Size Classs
- Dwarf · ~3 years · 15–40 lbs/plant — Gisela 5 — 8–12 ft, bird-nettable, bears in about 3 years.
- Semi-dwarf · ~4 years · 30–75 lbs/plant — Krymsk/Gisela 6 — 15–18 ft, the homestead middle ground.
- Standard · ~5 years · 50–150 lbs/plant — Mazzard seedling — 30 ft+, 5–7 years, and you will lose the top of it to the robins.
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