How to Grow Cherry Trees - Complete Growing Guide

I live in northern Indiana and have 5 healthy, mature fruit trees. I have a pear, plum, apple, and 2 cherry (1 marchionne and 1 bing). Fruit trees are not only nice for you to enjoy but usually grow plenty for the whole neighborhood.

You, your family, and your videos are so wonderful! Your daughter is about the same age as mine as well, she’s adorable! We moved into a new home this year and were thrilled to discover lots of fruit trees in our yard. Your channel has been my primary resource for learning how to care for them. I had never gardened before and now I’m hooked! So I just wanted to say thanks, I’m enjoying every video you put out!

Thank you so much for the great information, I have no idea why anyone would give you a thumbs down on this video… I really do appreciate the video and the time you took to make sure this got produced and made available. God bless

Last year I planted some seeds I had got from store bought cherries..a few sprouted.I gave birth to my daughter at home and decided to put the placenta under the tree for extra nutrition 😅..so far so good Everything grows super fast in my garden( pears are growing now instead of in the fall).. so I'm hoping for cherries in 4 years ..wish us luck!

I genuinely appreciate that you do videos that are searchable by plant type. Even with a lot of plants having the same growing styles when I want to learn something specific I can always count on this page providing a video for it.

I'm from México and I just moved to Madison, Wisconsin. We don't have cherry trees where we lived in México because it's a very hot and tropical place. I saw lots of cherry trees in bloom here and they look beautiful. I'd like to plant some cherry trees and your video really helped me a lot, thank you!

Oh, I also wanted to add, I've followed much of the advice in this vid, except fertilization, and our cherry tree is doing great. We planted it from a whip (I think it's called), a little $13 twig from Costco, last year, did the watering schedule, it grew the first year a bit. We have clay for soil. Not clay soil, no, just clay, like you could dig out a block, sculpt it, fire it in a kiln and have a flower pot, that level of clay. So we dug out 2 and 1/2 times the root ball, and added some topsoil, and we were sure to dig deep, which was very difficult with just a maddox, as the hole had to get wider to get deeper. But we did it. Then we followed the watering schedule, and then had a pretty cold winter, a few feet of snow at one point. We didn't know if our tree had rooted deeply enough to get below the frost line in the soil. But this spring, it flowered like crazy, and really it's still just a twig, well a Y shaped twig, but it flowered all over the "tree", up the trunk, up the two limbs. And it appears it was pollinated! We seem to have little cherries developing all over the tree. Our label on our tree said we needed a bing or some other cultivar to pollinate our tree (we read that after we bought it, and were bummed when we read it) but apparently there are other cherry trees in the area. So now we have a year old tree, it's a little twig, and it is covered in developing cherries. I can't wait until this tree is bigger, I think it will produce fruit like a champ! Now we just need to know how to prune this tree for our backyard. We've turned our backyard into a garden, so have rows all over where the grass used to be, and the cherry tree is in the middle of that. We don't want to shade the garden out too much, but it would be great if the cherry tree did give our veggies below a little relief from the sun. So we need to learn some pruning techniques, if anyone has suggestions for cherry tree pruning videos, or fruit tree videos in general, please post them. Thanks again, and follow the advice in this video and I don't think you can go wrong!

I just ordered Rainier Cherry and Bing Cherry trees. Thank you so much for your guidance. I will be getting the Trifecta fertilizer. My girls love cherries. I am in zone 7A.

I feel like I'm going to school and actually retaining the information you're a wonderful teacher!! thank you Luke for your time put into these videos

We just bought a cherry plant and a pears plant from Costco and are about to plant the tree in our backyard. Thank you for detailed information. The information is very helpful.

Thank you for the video. I just ordered my pomegranate tree today after seeing your Facebook post so I can't wait for that episode!

CA is mild and temperate but it varies greatly in weather. My area is actually known for cherries, people come by the bus loads every spring to pick and buy cherries that grow in my area. So it really just depends on the area. I’m here to learn how to grow one in my yard instead of dumping my entire bank acct in spring to my local growers lol and then I hear that part he said about them not growing well in CA. Perhaps not in southern CA but Northern CA is covered in cherry trees

We are about to plant a Crimson Passion tree/shrub. Hardy to zone 2!! So excited to watch it grow.

I have a thirteen year old cherry tree that has never produced a single cherry - not for lack of trying on either of our parts, though mine was assistance related solely. It's still an absolutely beautiful tree, and any tree is a wonderful thing to have. It fits in with all the maples well. They hang out in green all summer long and winter together. It's an absolute delight in the spring.

I have three lovely cherry tree, cannot wait for Spring

I have two beautiful sweet red cherry trees. The leaves started to curl. I would trim the tree this year and fertilize it well. Missed all the fruits last year.

Thanks for the wonderful information you provided about cherry trees.I have eight fruit trees in the same area. They all do well except for this one particular tree. It didn't produce leaves or come back to life in any way by the second spring. It's just this one spot doesn't seem to keep a cherry tree alive for more than one year. I have planted three cherry trees in this spot that did the same thing. Die by second spring. I do have another cherry that has done well. It's pretty much perfect. I planted two cherry trees about ten years ago. I am going to follow your advice. I am so hoping I can get this tree to grow. They ain't cheap! And, I really would love to keep it alive.

Love the idea of the growing guides. Thanks for the heads up on similarities! 😉

I'm so glad you posted this video today. I just planted my first cherry tree and am excited to take care of it and watch it grow and yield fruit. I also planted a peach tree and feel bit overwhelmed how to prune it properly. Looking forward to the other videos!

Thank you for this! I just received my cherry tree from a nursery in Ga and it was not supposed to be delivered until the ground thaw in zone 4, but it was sent and looks like a 4 ft stick! I’m very disappointed but put it into a pot until I can plant it and now I’m concerned for its health and growth. It’s my first fruit tree so this video really helps, I just need to get it into the ground asap when it thaws. You always make it look easy. 💞