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Does anyone have an idea of the chill requirement of the Pretty Gully cherry tree? Has anyone had a go at growing it in Sydney?

Time: 28th December 2007 12:13pm

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Anonymous says...
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Cherry-Tree.htm

Time: 28th December 2007 1:15pm

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Elizabeth says...
Thanks for the link, but I've already seen that one. Is there any more variety specific info available?

Time: 28th December 2007 5:18pm

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Bsilver says...
Pretty gullyu has flowered after 3 years in Mid Blue Mts. No fruit yet . sadly I think it is unlikely to fruit in Subs of sydney . Lowest chiil requirement I have seen for sweet cherry is 900 hours . richmond get around 960 hrs .

Time: 30th December 2007 10:30am

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Anonymous says...
Bsilver, perhaps your tree is still establishing itself - some fruit trees take several years to produce fruit. How is your tree growing?
I thought that a cherry tree is unlikely to fruit in Sydney suburbs. But I'm not sure how low chill 'Pretty Gully' is really. This link suggests that some low chill cherries might exist:
http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=554

Time: 30th December 2007 9:13pm

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B silver says...
Try as you might one cannot find any data on low chill cherry trees. ;all conjecture and anecdote.

Time: 31st December 2007 6:52pm

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Bob says...
Flemings are selling the Minnie Royal and Royal Lee varities (need both for pollination).

400 hours chilling.

Check out www.davewilson.com

Bob

Time: 31st January 2008 3:01pm

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Anonymous says...
Thanks Bob. Have you tried cherries in Perth at all?

Time: 31st January 2008 7:22pm

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aNON says...
Yes, at Stoneville out of 5 years you get 1 year no crop, 2 years bad crops and 2 years passable crops.

Time: 5th March 2008 11:40am

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Graham says...
I went to the Flemings website www.flemings.com.au) and they don't show the Minnie Royal or Royal Lee Cherry varieties.

Has anyone found either, but preferably both, varieties from any nursery in Perth?

Time: 1st February 2009 2:02am

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BOB says...
you need to look in the commercial section of the flemings web site.

Wandilla claim they have some coming in July on dwarf root stocks.

Time: 2nd February 2009 9:29am

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anonymous says...
someone told me that you can grow the pretty gully cherry tree from daleys in te goldcoast, has anybody had success with this.

Time: 20th May 2009 10:48am

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Rev says...
i used to live a few km from pretty gully
they grow avocados commercially too
it gets cold but not that frosty

the conditions would match inland se qld, the sunshine coast hinterland
and atherton tabelands

Time: 22nd June 2010 2:10am

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Rev says...
i think we need to get pretty gully, minnie royal and royal lee, let them pollinate each other.
germinate seeds and plant 100 trees out in 3 rows, close space
in a place that gets 350-400 h chill

same with apples
plant crosses of anna, gold dorset and tropic

from these populations we might get further evolution

after all the world was a much warmer place only a million years ago than it is today. 1 million years is nothing to a woody plant, there will be latent genes lurking in the populations

Time: 22nd June 2010 2:16am

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virginny says...
Enthusiasts cannot obtain the "Royal" family.

Time: 22nd June 2010 9:34am

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Rev says...
theres not much a carton or two cant get.

Even so all we need is the pollen
and under the PBR legislation we are full entitled to use PBR registered breeds as parents for our own breeding and have no obligations to the owner for any offspring

Time: 22nd June 2010 4:17pm

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virginny says...
I admire your tenacity and resolve but it seems you'll need many years. How about just getting one of the "ROYALS" seed and taking your chances.

Time: 22nd June 2010 5:34pm

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Rev says...
thatd do

where do i get such a cherry?
are they branded on the box?

Time: 24th June 2010 2:22am

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virginny says...
I understand that commercial growers have planted the Royals and ,yes,they will be named on the box. Interestingly when you look up "Pretty Gully" on the map it seems that the area would not get much chill. Ergo the tree of that name ought to be low chill.

Time: 24th June 2010 1:05pm

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Rev says...
i used to live a few km from there
you are right it doesnt get a long time of chilling
Frosts normally hit in the first week of june.
coldest driest month is August
and by the second week of september it turns warm again for a few weeks, then we get a couple more weeks cold weather
and then its Hot hot hot!

what im thinking is if you X pollinate pretty gully with the royals youd get a number of seedlings with low chill genes mixed in and hybrid vigour with all sorts of other traits.

Im more into Cheap seedlings and culling rather than coddling expensive grafted trees

Time: 26th June 2010 3:41am

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russ says...
Hi,
We get 90 cold nights a winter with temps to -5degrees at times. 0 degrees is common. Is there any variety of cherry I could try growing? I can shade them in summer if that helps with partial block shadecloth. Don't mind trying and failing.
Russ

Time: 24th February 2011 3:28am

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kert says...
The best to try are Pretty Gully , Lapins , Stella. You should be successful.

Time: 24th February 2011 8:47am

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Jude says...
The Pretty Gully cherry came from our orchard originally. We found it would fruit every two years, it was over 5 when it began to fruit however as it grew from a failed graft so was root stock (not sure which). As for chill requirements; it grew right beside an R2E2 mango. I am not sure what the chill hours are here but it is subtropical.

Time: 5th November 2011 8:25pm

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DanP says...
I gave Pretty Gully to a friend who lives at Crows Nest north of Toowoomba and it is growing very vigorously. I don't think it has flowered as yet. I have also found a variety called Country Red which is propagated in by a Toowoomba nursery I think - supposed to be self fertile and suitable for warm areas. Probably worth a go.

Time: 21st February 2014 1:21pm

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rustynuts1 says...
Thanks I will give the Pretty Gulley and Country Red a go. I have 2 stella atm but no flowers as we had a mild winter last.
Russ

Time: 27th February 2014 5:48pm

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Troy says...
Has anyone fruited pretty gully yet? Whats the fruit like?

Time: 29th January 2016 3:49pm

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rustynutz says...
Quick update, the steelas all flowered this last winter. I got a small fruit set and then we had unseasonable early storms and heavy rain.
All the baby fruit dropped, same happened with our mangoes this year. Always a fight with anthrax nosenand the weather.

Time: 30th January 2016 7:35am

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Brain says...
Good on you rust, just got to keep the faith and keep trying. I look forward to your success, so then i can get my own, lol.

Time: 1st February 2016 12:02am

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rustynutz says...
I have another area at the bottom of front block which is a lot colder in winter for longer. Have had it graded flat and need to fence it off and run the water line across to it. It should take 12 cherry trees and a few date palms to fill it. Well that is my plan neways :)
Just wish i could get blue berries to grow without a drama, lol :(

Time: 1st February 2016 1:27pm

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Unikat says...
My Pretty Gully has been prolifically fruiting annually in Surrey Hills (Melbourne suburbia). The fruit can be bitter but still quite edible. The companion Napoleon is also overloaded with fruit which just keep getting sweeter the longer they are left on the tree.

Time: 18th December 2022 10:09pm

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Edward3 says...
If the cherries are bitter, that is probably because they are not fully ripe yet. Try leaving them longer on the tree.

Time: 3rd January 2023 2:39pm

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