Sweet cherry ‚Sweetheart’

Ripening

spät

Harvest

Week 29 to 30

Vigour

mittel

Origin

Kanada

Introduced

1994

Self-fertile

Yes

Use

Tafel

Rootstock

Gisela 5, Gisela 6, Colt

Disease resistance

Platzfestigkeit: mittel

About this variety

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Sweetheart is one of the latest sweet cherries and stretches the season far into July. The medium sized, heart shaped, firm fruits have a pleasantly balanced sweet and tart flavour. It is self fertile, so it manages without a second tree, and it ripens in stages over a longer period, which is handy if you do not want to harvest everything at once.

Firm, crisp flesh with a refreshing balance of sweetness and acidity. As a late self fertile cultivar it closes the cherry season, when most other trees have long been picked clean.

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.