Hello again,
I have a Starkspur montmorency pie cherry tree. When I first brought this tree home 3 years ago, it was 5 ft tall with over a half dozen cherries on it. Since then I've received tons of blossoms every year, and the tree is 7 ft tall, but this year is the first time I ever received fruit since first planting. I had _one fruit_ this year...a great fruit, mind you ;) but still a little lacking on quantity.
I have with me the original card that came with the tree. It says its a semi-dwarf pie cherry, and "super productive". If one cherry every
3 years is super-productive, I'd hate to see the ones that skimp ;) It also says it's "self pollinating", which I am also highly skeptical about.Since it had tons of fruit while at the nursery, I can only guess it needs a cross pollinator to set fruit, which it shouldn't, since it's a pie cherry. If I needed another pie cherry to cross-pollinate this one, can anyone recommend any? Would another montmorency be appropriate?
Can pie cherries cross-pollinate each other? Do cross-pollinating pie cherries set a lot more fruit than single pie cherry trees? It's been difficult to find this info, everything on cross-pollination is about sweet varieties. Thanks very much, Dan