Grafting sweet cherry into wild cherry..will it work?

[Derek Reese 29]

Tried to look into this question online but the answers were jumbled to say the least..can I graft some sweet cherry scion onto a wild cherry tree? Will it take? I got some sweet cherry scion to try to graft onto a weeping cherry in my front yard that while pretty, produces nothing…I am also in PA and have a few large wild cherry trees around and was thinking of just trying a few grafts into them..who knows? I figured someone in here might have an inkling…

 

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I'd stick with general outdoor grafting advice. Wait until the tree starts to wake up. I can imagine n general cherry trees are pickier to accept a graft. Usually noted by the price of bareroot trees. I'd try both sweet and sour cherries. I thought I read somewhere sour ones are more accepting grafts.

Sour ones I beleive have less disease issues too.

 

[homerj]

Sweet cherry (prunus avium)and wild black cherry (prunus serotina)are different species. Doesn't work. If you have wild prunus avium it'd be possible.

 

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Any improved wild cherries you can graft? My camp litteraly has thousands of them.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Any improved wild cherries you can graft? My camp litteraly has thousands of them.

Can you explain what that is?

 

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Might be doing some honework. Like all kinds of trees, theres sone difference.

Somerhibg a bit better in the wild black cherry family. Like oaks n maples have differences.

 

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Improved or hybrid American black cherry?

The largest I’ve seen was about 3/8 to 7/16 inch diameter. This was near Emporia Virginia in 1983. I wish I could go back and find that tree. It was behind the remote phone office I was working in.

growingfruit.org

 

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Found another thread. Anybody on rhis plane speak jive? Growing fruit folks dive deep.

Nanking might be a possibility.

Grafting Prunus Serotina

We will know soon! Multiple varieties of Cherry, peach, Asian plum, apricot, and a myrobalan plum cultivar! Next I’ll do another with Hardy almond, Nanking cherry, American plum, and any that look successful here so far. I will test prunus Virginiana, and padus, as well.

growingfruit.org

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Update: this was kind of a failure but with one exception..grafted 5 different kinds of fruiting cherry scion that I bought online to my weeping cherry back in April…grafted 3 to weeping branches and 2 to some about suckers 5’ up the trunk…got a 20% success rate (1 of the weeping ones took)…weirdly enough it kinda just popped within the past 2 weeks..believe it was a Wynooche scion that took…overall I would still say a success but might need more looking into and to see if that scion survives till next year and if it’s healthy and fruits..