I say "potential" because I'm not holding my breath. But still - look at all those little pink bits where the flowers were - most of those should have been pollinated and could be a little sweet cherry!
Even though I'm seeing all these now, it's hard to tell if any took frost damage Sunday night or Monday night, and then will the tree just give some of them up due to having too many, and then finally, I understand birds sort of have a thing for cherries - the kind of thing where the humans often don't get many of the cherries they're hoping to harvest. A day or two before we would pick them, the birds will think they're just fine and scarf them all up. Will this be the year to try bird netting on the fruit trees?!
This next shot is looking straight up - I don't plan to let the trees get super tall and unmanageable without a step ladder, but we'll have to see how that goes over the years. I have to say the leaves on ALL the fruit trees are looking incredibly healthy right now.
There are a variety of cherries growing in the yard - just three trees, but one is a 4-in-1 graft that's had one of the grafts die off, so it's just a 3-in-1 at this point.
The cherry next to my thumbnail is one of the largest potential-cherries I've seen on the trees so far. Talk about exciting! (I'm not sure if the little guy next to it is gonna make it - it's looking a little deformed)
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