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Surefire Pie Cherry

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$59.99
$59.99 - $59.99
Current price $59.99
SKU C880G

Prunus cerasus ‘Surefire’

A surefire, easy-picking choice for the backyard grower and U-Pick marketers. Because it is very late flowering, it evades and tolerates frosts and annually produces large, crack-resistant crops. Skin, juice, and flesh are fire engine red. Its high sugar content make it excellent for eating fresh, and the vivid red makes the dried fruit look extra tasty! It ripens a week after Montmorency. So highly regarded, it is the first sour cherry introduced by the N.Y. Geneva Experiment station in 107 years. On Dwarf Gisela 5 rootstock.

Gisela 5 is a dwarfing rootstock, 50% of standard size, that induces heavy early fruit production. Trees can be maintained at 10 to 12 feet tall. Gisela 5 is more forgiving of shallow soils and a better choice than the even more dwarfing Gisela 3 for people with enough room for this somewhat larger tree.

USDA Zone: 4-9

Grow Height: 12' (Dwarf)

Sun: Full Sun

Ripening Time: August

Pollination: Self-Fertile

Rootstock: Gisela 5

Read our Cherry Growing Guide

Size: Dwarf (4'-5')

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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  • Will the Surefire cherry pollinate other cherry trees? Thank you

    It will pollinate other sour cherry trees, yes.

  • How many chill hours does the surefire pie cherry tree require?

    Currently undetermined. As a NY state cultivar it is likely to need 800-1200 chilling hours.

Customer Reviews

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James C.-.L.W.
Surefire Pie Cherry

Well, we shall see. It was rec'd & went in about two weeks ago. The leaves are coming out & there is one blossom (Yay!).

This is actually the 2nd time I have ordered fruit trees on-line, both this spring. What a difference between the other & RainTree. RainTree's packing was leagues above the other, & also leagues above a neighbor who ordered w/ a big box store. The order was not quite right, but their customer service responded quickly. And the YouTube videos of what a non-gardener like me needs to know... priceless. I will come back to them next year.

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nancy
Very healthy plants

They are in the ground and all doing fine. I wasn’t sure about blueberries in Arizona but the are doing great as well. Thanks Raintree.

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Holly

Very big, healthy tree. Looking forward to seeing how it grows!

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R.J.K.

Very pleased

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Raymond J.
So far, so good

I received my Surefire Cherry via UPS last week but needed to wait a couple of days to plant since it was very hot and sunny. I followed the detailed guidelines from the Raintree website about preparing the planting site and watering and planted the tree about 1 week ago. It is very healthy, has already started sending out leaves, and I was surprised to see several clusters of cherry blossoms. I'm very eager to see how it does in the coming year.