Our Variety Assessment

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

Gros Bigarreau de la Groise suits gardens and home orchards seeking a traditional dessert cherry. Its red fruit is firm, crisp, juicy and sweet, with a light touch of acidity. We recommend it for its good fresh-eating quality and heritage value. A compatible pollinator is required for regular cropping.

Gros Bigarreau de la Groise

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

Gros Bigarreau de la Groise is red sweet cherry from northern France, which ripens in late June / early July.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Cherry rootstock options

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: 1458 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Gros Bigarreau de la Groise is a bigarreau-style variety, producing juicy sweet firm red cherries in late June.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Local cherry variety from the Nord department, identified by the CRRG as part of the fruit heritage of La Groise and replanted in its village of origin. Origin date not found.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Local selection of Prunus avium, exact parents unknown

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Vigour and habit not precisely documented, bigarreau-type variety with late flowering

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 5 - very late.

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