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Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« on: December 13, 2017, 11:03:53 AM »

It surprises me that it is almost exactly like a normal cherry but with a myrtaceae touch!

Taste report and photos, inside of the fruit, etc., spanish:

http://www.huertasurbanas.com/2017/12/13/probando-cerella-por-primera-vez/


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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2017, 12:58:29 PM »
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2017, 07:04:13 PM »
Thanks :), it was fun.

I grow 2 more varieties, one should be red and another one should be full black and it is supposed to be wonderful
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2017, 06:46:02 AM »
Congratulations, Marcos!
It looks delicious. My oldest plant is 5 years old, in a pot and hasn’t flowered yet. I have good hopes for next year, but we will see... I am also very curious to what it will taste like. It looks like you will be drowning in Uvaia’s soon as well!
Thanks for sharing, always a joy to see your videos,
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2017, 11:09:37 AM »
congrats, I think there a underrated excellent fruit 8)

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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2017, 11:48:31 AM »
congrats, I think there a underrated excellent fruit 8)


Thanks

Why underrated?

there should be very high quality varieties out there, we should grow just these ones... it is very useful here because the cold climate normal cherry doesnt almost produce fruits in our region, but e. involucrata does it well.
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2017, 11:50:40 AM »
Congratulations, Marcos!
It looks delicious. My oldest plant is 5 years old, in a pot and hasn’t flowered yet. I have good hopes for next year, but we will see... I am also very curious to what it will taste like. It looks like you will be drowning in Uvaia’s soon as well!
Thanks for sharing, always a joy to see your videos,
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Very thanks Solko! yours should fruit soon... maybe with some fertilizer and more sun? more water?

Dont be so intrigued about their taste: just go to a store and buy bing cherries, they taste just like that :), but with a touch of myrtaceae, maybe a touch of guaviyú or so...
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2017, 03:39:31 PM »
What's better then a ripe COR?

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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2017, 03:54:16 PM »
A handful of ripe COR!

My tree flowered constantly for the previous 2 years and every once in a while it had a fruit or two.
Then last spring it flowered real heavy and I got about 25 fruit at once. 2 days in a row I went out and ate
a handful. Then it didn't set any more fruit. Hurricane Irma knocked it flat and I had to stake it.
It looks like crap now. Before it was so dark green and lush, now allot of tips of branches are bare and
it is has a yellowish look :(
I have another tree Adam FFF gave me as a plug and it has completely different leaves. Now it is
3 foot and in the ground. It is so different then my large tree
I also have a calycina growing next to it. I can't wait to try the fruit and I plan to get more trees. The fruit
tasted exactly like a Northern cherry but a little less flesh. I can see myself eating a bowl full real easy!

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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2017, 08:15:50 PM »
achetadomestica, I hope you get a lot of different varieties, I think that your tree should be good if you give it some minerals, shade and so on... there is an anti-shock treatment-product that some nurseries use to sell here...

I didnt knew that they could produce fruit all year round... it would be great!
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2017, 08:28:17 PM »
Is this fruit is sweet ?


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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2017, 08:57:26 PM »
Is this fruit is sweet ?


Yes, just like a normal cherry
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2017, 09:35:56 PM »
achetadomestica, I hope you get a lot of different varieties, I think that your tree should be good if you give it some minerals, shade and so on... there is an anti-shock treatment-product that some nurseries use to sell here...

I didnt knew that they could produce fruit all year round... it would be great!
My tree flowered for two years but didn't set fruit. When it flowered heavy and set a decent crop
it quit flowering??? I don't think it will fruit all year round?

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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2017, 11:28:15 AM »
congrats, I think there a underrated excellent fruit 8)


Thanks

Why underrated?

there should be very high quality varieties out there, we should grow just these ones... it is very useful here because the cold climate normal cherry doesnt almost produce fruits in our region, but e. involucrata does it well.
I sad underrated because some folks think fruit is to small and not enough flavor! I've found my seedling are getting better every year, taste keeps intensifying  ;) 8)

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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2017, 11:07:51 AM »
Mine is about 2 years old now and has barely grown. It looks nice and healthy, just hasn't grown much. I think I might have been over fertilizing it?  Irma didn't do it any favors, that's for sure.
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #15 on: December 26, 2017, 08:59:51 PM »
Mine is about 2 years old now and has barely grown. It looks nice and healthy, just hasn't grown much. I think I might have been over fertilizing it?  Irma didn't do it any favors, that's for sure.

Does it receives too much sun or too much shade? it should be well in the shade when young...
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2018, 11:06:24 AM »
Are there grafted cultivars that are a better quality, or are they true to seed?
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Re: Tasting cherry of the rio grande for the first time!
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2018, 10:24:37 AM »
I looked this up a little while ago. On this forum somewhere, someone commented that there are 2 grafted varieties that perform well. I tracked these down - they can be found at papaya tree nursery. Ben’s beaut and bountiful harvest. One gives a large fruit and the other is bountiful I guess 😀.

I’ve heard they are true enough to seed but these varieties stuck out enough for some forum members that I thought it was worth tracking down. These 2 are indeed grafted.

At exotica nursery they have a variety called ruby rio which they grow from seed.