pennyaline wrote:
> Sheldon wrote about cherry pitters:
> > They are not very expensive: http://tinyurl.com/c2g2x
>
> Thanks so much, Sheldon!
>
> I've looked at these before, and have always wondered if the claims
are
> genuine. I guess there's one way to find out.

If you find it unsatifactory you can always return it. I had a dwarf
sour cherry tree at my last house and it was becoming so prolific I was
seriously considering a better pitter, but alas, I moved and naturally
left the tree. But at my new digs I planted two dwarf sour cherry
trees... planted them last spring, perhaps I'll get a few cherries this
year, but I know it will be at least three years before meaningful
production. The buds on my two new trees are just about to burst open,
even a bit of green is showing... perhaps a few blossoms will appear.
I like dwarf fruit trees, in every way they are so much easier... and
pound for pound are much more prolific than semi-dwarfs and full size.
I used to get 20lbs of delicious sour cherries from my one dwarf tree,
and that was after only 5 years... and that from a tree of only 7'
height and about as wide, and planted in a very cramped space in the
corner of a stockade fence. I have a picture of it in full blossom,
gorgeous. So if you get a new pitter let me know which one and how it
works.

Sheldon