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I've collected one black cherry and very likely will collect some more, if you guys provide any encouragement at all.

I've looked around the forum and I found a few old threads where people say they are trying black cherry as bonsai, but I haven't found much in the way of photos or new info on how your trees are doing. So, who here has made some progress with their cherry trees? Any problems? Likes/dislikes?

I have access to a lot of land and black cherry seems to be fairly common on a lot of it. From what I can tell, they seem to have fine branching, relatively short internodes, and fairly small leaves, so I'm considering looking for a couple more of them if I can find some nice candidates.

The only problem I've seen from the one that I did collect was that it had a very large tap root and not much in the way of side roots. It has great movement, a lot of basal flare, and natural taper. The roots are just a bit scarce.

Photos welcome of your black cherries or other prunus varieties.

--scott

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