Oak Summit Nursery
Nanking Cherry Seeds
Nanking Cherry Seeds
Pack contains: 18+ seeds
Nanking Cherry (Prunus tomentosa) is a cold hardy fruiting shrub native to China, Mongolia, and Korea and introduced to North America in the 1800s. Its small bright red cherries have juicy flesh with sweet tart, slightly astringent flavour and are good fresh or in jam and jelly.
Nanking Cherry is mostly self sterile. A single bush can sometimes produce fruit, but two or more bushes usually give much better fruit set through cross pollination. In Manitoba, the fruit ripens in July.
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Starting this seed
- Warm1 monthWarm stratification
- Cold2 to 3 monthsCold stratification
- SowAfter the cold stage3 to 4 months from the start
- Seed source
- Manitoba
- Hardiness
- Zone 2
How to stratify seed
Warm stage first. Keep the same bag at room temperature for the warm period shown, then move it to the fridge.
In the fridge. Put the seed in a bag with a damp medium such as peat moss, vermiculite, sand or coco coir. The medium is only there to hold moisture. Keep the bag in the fridge, above freezing, for the cold period shown, then sow.
Or outside. Sow the seed outdoors in the fall and let winter do the cold period.
The plant these seeds grow into
Growing details
- Cold hardiness
- Zone 2
- Fruit size
- About 1/2 in across
- Flavour
- Sweet to tart, with some variation among seedlings
- Ripening
- July
- Pollination
- Plant two or more seedlings for reliable fruit set
- Mature height
- About 8 to 12 ft
Cold hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 2 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – Canada
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