Sold out for the 2024 Season. We will have bareroot fruit trees available again for pre-order in Fall 2024 and they will be shipped starting January 2025.
Optimize Shipping: Shipping is calculated by box size. We can fit up to 8 bare-root fruit trees in a box. Multi-budded fruit trees and Jujube trees will count as 2 due to branching. Optimize your shipping by ordering multiple trees.
Montmorency Sour Cherry- Variety Information
- Late-ripening tart cherry for cooking, sometimes eaten fresh when fully ripe.
- Self-fruiting tree vigorously produces medium, dark red to nearly black cherries in late spring.
- Small, round-headed tree with drooping branches (easy to harvest).
- European origins obscure, introduced to America prior to 1862.
- Sensitive to wet, tight soils.
- USDA Zone 4-9, Requires 500 chill hours to set fruit. Protect when temperatures fall below -20°F.
- Susceptible to birds, brown rot, and bacterial canker.
- Grafted onto Mazzard rootstock.
- Harvest 4th or 5th year.
- This fruit tree is shipped dormant and bare-rooted.
- Please see our "Dormant Tree & Plant Guarantee" below
Click here for our Bare Root Fruit Tree Growing Guide (pdf)
Guia de cultivo para un arbol de raiz desnuda