Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Griotte de Vieux-Condé suits fruit gardens and growers looking for cherries for pies, preserves or drinks. Its small fruit is tender, highly aromatic, tart and slightly bitter, with plenty of character. We recommend it mainly for processing rather than mild fresh eating. Ripening is gradual and requires several pickings.

Griotte de Vieux Conde

Price range: 26,50 € through 42,75 €

Vieux-Condé sour cherry tree, with small aromatic tart cherries for cooking, jam and fruit brandy, harvested gradually in late June.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Cherry rootstock options

Colt – approx. 4.5 m mature height

GiselA 5 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

GiselA 6 – approx. 3.5 m mature height

Mazzard – approx. 8 m mature height

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SKU: 13701 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Vieux-Condé sour cherry tree produces small cherries of the griotte type. The fruit is acidic, soft, slightly bitter and very aromatic.

These cherries are especially well suited to processing. They make excellent cooked preparations, pies, jams and fruit brandies.

Harvest takes place gradually at the end of June. The cherry season can then continue with varieties such as Hedelfingen.

Flowering is early. Griotte de Vieux-Condé pollinates well with Early Rivers.

This variety was found in the Scarpe plain, in northern France.

We produce this grafted cherry tree on several rootstocks, which influence the final size of the mature tree. It is available in several tree forms depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Regional variety typical of the Plaine de l’Escaut and the Plaine de la Scarpe, rediscovered at Vieux-Condé in the Nord department. Origin date not found, sour cherry mainly intended for cooking, jams and eaux-de-vie.

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Origin and identity

Parentage

Local selection of Prunus cerasus, exact parents unknown

Synonyms

Griotte de Vieux Condé

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Vigour and habit not precisely documented, tree grown as a regional sour cherry with staggered harvest

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

De Leme View this variety

Cerise du Sars View this variety

Hedelfingen View this variety

Coeur de Pigeon View this variety

Lapins View this variety

Kordia View this variety

Harvest calendar

Extend your harvest season

Discover varieties from the same category harvested just before, at the same time or just after.

About 15 days earlier

June 15-25

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Cerise du Sars View this variety

At the same time

June 15-30

Montmorency View this variety

Stella View this variety

Summit View this variety

About 15 days later

July 1-15

De La Toussaint View this variety