Montmorency
America's #1 tart cherry
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -28°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate-Vigorous
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -28°F.
Mid-season harvest.
Moderate overall resistance across the stonefruit pathogens.
Canopy resistant to brown rot, the dominant stonefruit disease.
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.
These are intrinsic to the stone fruit. On a real property, Folia scores each against your site; here they're shown on their own.
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