A couple days ago I , and unlike George Washington, I didn’t feel bad about it.
I bought this tree in 06 or 07, and it grew like crazy, lots of wood, lots of leaves. The caliper (diameter of trunk) on it flew past a pear tree I had planted in 04, about 10 inches across, and this was supposed to be a dwarf. It also got significantly taller than that pear tree, even with some pruning.
I believe it was supposed to be a starkcrimson sweet cherry, but maybe they messed up sending it to me.
It fruited for me a couple years, I probably got only about 10 total cherries though, and they didn’t taste good. Not sour, not sweet, bland.
Meanwhile it had completely shaded one of the few areas of my property that gets significant sun, depriving me of some real estate to grow vegetables or other edibles.
It was also infested with black cherry aphids, every year.
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