With the commercial acceptance of precocious, size controlling rootstocks and productive self-fertile varieties, cherry production took a giant step forward. Rootstocks such as Gisela 5, 6, 12,...
The United States is one of the leading producers of sweet cherries in the world. In the U.S. the majority of cherries are produced in the Pacific Coast states of Washington, Oregon and California with the greatest volume of production in the north.
This system, widely known as the KGB system is a renewable multi‐leader bush system. The early development of this system is similar to the Spanish Bush.
Growers today have the advantage of many fully- or semi-dwarfing rootstocks that offer precocity, allow for high-density plantings, and bring a faster return on investment
The U.S. Pacific Northwest is the most important sweet cherry production region in North America, however, as recently as the early 1990’s fresh cherry production consisted primarily of one variety, ‘Bing’. In recent years there has been increased interest in new varieties.
