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Benton® cherry is a medium to large sweet cherry that turns dark red as it ripens, with excellent flavor. This cherry tree ripens before Stardust™, giving you an extended time for cherry picking when planting both. Benton is self-fruitful, late-blooming, and has resistance to cracking. The tree is suitable for plant hardiness zones 5-8 and will have a mature height of 20′.
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BENTON® CHERRY
Benton® cherry is a medium to large sweet cherry that turns dark red as it ripens, with excellent flavor. This cherry tree ripens before Stardust™, giving you an extended time for cherry picking when planting both. Benton is self-fruitful, late-blooming, and has resistance to cracking. The tree is suitable for plant hardiness zones 5-8 and will have a mature height of 20′.
The Benton® Cherry tree is made using plant tissue from the original tree and grafted onto new roots. This process essentially provides you with an identical tree to the one depicted in the picture and description.
TREE SIZE
2-yr 4-6′ (select): The largest size available in cherrys. They will be feathered and have our greatest diameter + 3/4”. We will prune the trees back to a shipping height of 66″ with the roots, as our largest box is 66 “x 14″ x 14” and will hold 13 select cherry trees. Free local pick-up is available in the surrounding states of Pennsylvania.
POLLINATION FOR BENTON® CHERRY
The Benton® Cherry is self-fruitful and doesn’t require other cherry trees to produce.
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR BENTON® CHERRY
Plant all cherries in moist, well-drained soil with a pH between 5.8 and 7. This soil should have adequate nutrient levels for optimal growth and fruit production.
If you have not completed a soil test, click here to improve your soil. Many products can supply your tree with the two most essential nutrients: phosphorus and potassium. However, adjust these nutrients when planting your tree or the prior year, as the soil two feet into the earth has never had any amendments, and these two nutrients are not very mobile.
Per a soil test, if your soil pH is lower than recommended, you can adjust it by mixing a few handfuls of pelletized lime into your soil when planting.
Benton® Cherry requires 6 hours of direct sunlight for growth and fruit production. Space trees 20′ apart and use cages of at least 5′ cut to 7′ 8′ to protect your trees. This process will ensure your deer eat your fruit in a few years, not your trees this year.
We also recommend wrapping an aluminum window screen around the base of your tree, using a 2’x 2′ breathable weed mat, and adding 10 gallons of stone to that weed mat.
SHIPPING/PICK UP
Shipping to Plant Hardiness zones 2 – 8 will begin in early March (you select your ship date) and continue until the last Monday in April. Dormant bare-root trees must be planted in the spring, while trees in your area remain dormant. You can select your ship/pickup date when you check out on the website. If you are looking for winter shipping, write me at ryan@bluehillwildlifenursery.com
The last week of March or the first week of April is ideal for planting in Pennsylvania. Free local pick-up is also available in the surrounding states. When you check out on the website, you can select your pick-up date. However, if you are unable to make the selected date, please call or message us to arrange an alternative appointment.
We are open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, for tree pick-up.
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Additional information
| Weight | 18 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 58 × 2.30 × 2.30 in |
| Tree Size | 2-yr Select |
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Returns: We have been shipping plants around the country for quite some time now. We provide
healthy live plants. We take every effort to ensure that your plants are packed in a way that
maintains that health as they arrive to you. We can not be responsible for how plants are handled
when they leave our care or are handled by customers.
Tree care: If you plant your tree up on high dry ground they may need watered through the first
summer, if you plant too low and wet your trees may drown. Be careful of the herbicide you may
use around the tree (read the label). I want you and your trees to succeed but if you don't tube or
cage them the deer will eat your tree that night.
Hours: We do not keep regular hours. If you would like to visit the nursery, just call, send a
message or email. Anyone is more than welcome.
Selected pickup dates: Trees can be picked up in the spring as soon as you can dig in your soil.
Trees need to be picked by the end of April. Before picking up, please contact us letting us know
when you are planning to come so we can have your order ready for you when you arrive.
Shipping: When buying grafted trees, depending on the amount of trees you order will determine
the size box the trees will be shipped in. If you order 8 or fewer two-year-old trees, they will fit into a 66''x10''x10'' box. Ordering 9 to 16 two-year-old trees will fit into a 66''x15''x14'' box. Ordering 16 or more two year old trees will fill into 2 or more boxes, depending on the total amount of trees bought. Trees may need to be professionally pruned to fit in these boxes. Ship dates will be selected by you before completing you order. We ship trees from early March to late April. You should select a ship date that is suitable for the location you are planting your trees. Trees will ship through UPS on Monday’s, Tuesday’s, and Wednesday’s.
You will receive an email notification when your trees ship. When trees arrive, plant as soon as possible. If you cannot, it
would be best to heal them into soil or store in a cool place not allowing roots to freeze but not
allowing the trees to become warm.
If Tree Tube products are the only items you purchase then they will ship as soon as the order is
received. You may have to select a ship date but I can assure you if you are just ordering tree
tubes they will ship immediately. If Tree Tube products are purchased with trees, then they will
ship with the trees.
Due to the cost of shipping there will be a minimum of 4 trees that have to be purchased in order
for checkout to occur. Due to phytosanitary regulations, we do not ship to California. We also do not ship chestnut trees to Washington, Florida or Oregon State. Trees will be packaged correctly to meet the shipping requirements for Idaho and all other states.
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Stardust™ cherry is a medium to large sweet cherry that produces near-clear flesh with excellent flavor. The tree has high vigor, is self-fertile, late blooming, and produces fruit annually, making it an excellent choice for a backyard cherry tree. This cherry requires 800 chill hours to produce fruit. Stardust™ is winter hardy and originated in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, making it suitable for plant hardiness zones 5-8. Stardust™ will have a mature height of 20'.
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