Variety profile
Sweet cherry ‚Burlat’
Prunus avium · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- früh
- Harvest
- Week 23 to 24
- Vigour
- stark
- Origin
- Frankreich
- Introduced
- 1915
- Self-fertile
- No
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel
- Pollinator
- Hedelfinger, Sunburst, Lapins
- Rootstock
- Gisela 5, Gisela 6, Colt
- Disease resistance
- Platzfestigkeit: gering
About this variety
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With ‚Burlat’ you start the cherry season, it is one of the earliest varieties and usually ripe by early June. The large, dark red fruit are soft, juicy and mildly sweet. ‚Burlat’ is self‑sterile, so you need a pollinator nearby, such as ‚Hedelfinger Riesenkirsche’ or the self‑fertile ‚Lapins’. Plan for rain protection: when wetness occurs shortly before harvest, the fruit burst quickly.
You will find soft, dark red flesh, juicy, with a friendly, unobtrusive sweetness. The classic early cherry for snacking straight from the tree.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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