Amount of Production and Trade; Our country produces about 180,000 tons of sour cherry and it takes the fourth place in the world's produvtion As Ukraine comes in the fisrt place Russia comes in the second and Polish in the third.
Establishing a Garden and Important Species; Due to the development of fruit juice and canned industry, demand for sour cherry has increased. If generative rootstocks are used in gardens, plant spacing should be 5x5m or 5x6m, is clone rootstock is preferred it should be 5x4m, and it should me 3m on the line and 4m between the lines if the rootstocks grow weakly. Sour cherries generally don't fertilize each other so that a number of species blooming should be available in the garden. While a garden is planted, Katırlı for Kütahya sour cherry, Kütahya and Montmorency for Katırlı, Montmorency and Heimans Rabin for Hungary sour cherry should be planted. Rabin and Morello species don't fertilize each other.
Kütahya specie is the most commonly planted sour cherry in our country and as a result of the selection works among different types of this specie superior types were designated by our Research Institute.
To compete with the developed countries for sour cherry growing and to increase the amount of export, it is useful to establish closed gardens including the wild species besides the domestic types.
Cultivation Systems and Budding; Sour cherry trees tend to grow vertically within two years following the planting and then they start to evolve broad and shallow. Different peak branch and Goble cultivation systems are the most commonly applied ones.
In places with extreme sunbathing, different peak branch cultivation system is applied. Sour cherries form denser and more number of branches. Therefore, to promote the new shootings on branches, thinning should be performed every year and branches overlapping should be eliminated.
Disease and Pests; Root rot, Monilia, Root cancer are important diseases Among the virus diseases, Clorotic, Necrotic Ring Spot virus and Sur Cherry Yellow virus are important virus diseases. Sour cherry fly, leaf leeches and bud caterpillars are important pests.
