I've got as pair of cherry trees that I got as bare-roots Nov 2010, kept in pots in the winter and planted out about a year ago. One is a Morello, one is a Stella. THey're both flowering... not tons but they are flowering.... should I stop them fruiting this year or is it an indication that they're happy to do so adn let them get on with it?
I'm in the same position. As I had no blossom last year, but a few this year, I'm just going to stand back and let the tree get on with it. :D Cheers, Tony.
I find cherries don't set so easily fruit when young...not like apples that are able and willing to try when still almost a whip.
See how it goes..if it should set heavily..you can always thin them out...more likely birds will gobble them even before the fruit is ripe.. ::)
As they've been pot grown before planted into grown..the tree is not quite as 'newly planted' as such.
Yeahh...let it get on.. ;)
I was in the same position last year, new bare root cherry tree that was flowering, I left it and got 24 cherries. This year it's just finished flowering and it looks like I might get as many as 60 or 70 :) - I'd just let it get on with it - it's the quality not the quantity!
I've got two Stella and never de-blossomed - fight with the blackbirds every year over who gets the most cherries :)
I'm planning on keeping them quite small, the morello against a north-facing fence and the Stella is out in the middle of the garden but clos-ish (3 feet or so ) to the path ... I'll be tying the morello to the fence and I cna put a net over it then held out on strakes , the Stella I was planning on fabricating a ball frame out of bamboo and overing it with green net... should be invisible at any distance but hopefully will stop the birds getting all the fruit....
I've had no problems with either of mine setting fruit from the moment they were put in... I've just built a cage to keep the birds off... :)