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Emperor Francis Cherry Scionwood (Spring 2024)


A sweet, productive Napoleon-style cherry.

This is a vigorous and productive tree. It is not self-fertile and it will need to be paired with another sweet cherry for pollination. Recommended pollenizers include Stella and Sweetheart. Emperor Francis blooms early-mid and is pollen incompatible with Napoleon, Bing, Ulster, Kristin, Lambert, and Somerset. Emperor Francis is susceptible to bacterial canker.

Ripening with Bing, this cherry is crack resistant and deliciously sweet. This is a white-fleshed Napoleon-style cherry that is perfect for snacking or for processing into jam, jelly, or maraschino cherries. 

The origin of Emperor Francis is not clearly known, but it is a forward-looking fruit: this was the first cherry to be genetically mapped. 

Volume Pricing

Premiums are included in the following prices if applicable. These prices are for regular scion. Add $1 for clean scion.

Quantity Emperor Francis Cherry Scion
1 $12.00
2-5 $7.00
6-10 $6.00
11-99 $5.00
100+ $4.00

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$13.00 ea.

This is the full retail price for orders of 1 scion. You can get these scion for as low as $4.00 each – see Volume Pricing above. More about Pricing & Grading.

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Clean vs. Regular

Our clean scion is harvested from trees grown on G.16, which is extremely sensitive to viruses. These trees would not have survived if the scion contained viruses. Our clean wood has not been lab tested. Regular = may contain one of the common latent viruses; this is not usually a problem and can be used with most rootstocks.

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This is a vigorous and productive tree. It is not self-fertile and it will need to be paired with another sweet cherry for pollination. Recommended pollenizers include Stella and Sweetheart. Emperor Francis blooms early-mid and is pollen incompatible with Napoleon, Bing, Ulster, Kristin, Lambert, and Somerset. Emperor Francis is susceptible to bacterial canker.

Ripening with Bing, this cherry is crack resistant and deliciously sweet. This is a white-fleshed Napoleon-style cherry that is perfect for snacking or for processing into jam, jelly, or maraschino cherries. 

The origin of Emperor Francis is not clearly known, but it is a forward-looking fruit: this was the first cherry to be genetically mapped. 


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Cherry
Subcategory: Crack-Resistant, Sweet

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: fresh eating, jam, canning, jelly
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: red
Flesh color: white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: unknown
Origin: possibly Austria
Introduced in: 1860s
Introduced by: unknown

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 5 - 7
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Jun 20 (approximate, in New York State) + 0 days after Bing

Diseases & Pests

Bacterial Canker of Stone Fruit: Susceptible

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group: 2
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid

Pollination Partners

Sweet cherries are not part of our search tool given various complexities. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.






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