Where to get a tart cherry: Danube or balaton-in Vancouver BC

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  1. Ukichiko

    Ukichiko Member

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    Please help to find a tart cherry tree: Danube or balaton in Vancouver BC or close.
    I contacted several nurseries and they only have montmorency or sweet cherries.
    Maybe alternatively anynother tart cherry that can be grown in Vancouver and is large, dark red, juicy.

    Thanks everyone.
     
  2. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    You are familiar with 'Montmorency', and don't want it?

    • Surefire (morello)—Ripe early to mid July.
    Recent introduction from the Geneva, NY,
    cherry program. Trees begin bearing at a very
    young age and are very productive. Bright
    red fruit is medium size and quite tart.
    • Montmorency (standard, amorelle)—Ripe
    mid July. Classic pie cherry known in
    America for more than a century. Reliably
    productive.
    • Balaton and Danube are morello type
    cherries developed in Hungary that have
    recently been introduced in the U.S., they
    appear rather promising and worthy of trial


    http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0937/eb0937.pdf
     
  3. Ukichiko

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    Morello is also good. I just want to find the location that has it.
     
  4. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Morello is a type, not an individual cultivar. See use of term in above excerpt, where it says three of the cultivars are morello types and one ('Montmorency') is an amorelle type.
     

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