Our Variety Assessment

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

Guigne Noire de Ruesnes suits sunny gardens and orchards, on a rootstock chosen for the available space. We recommend it to growers who prefer tender cherries rather than crisp bigarreaux. Its dark fruit is juicy, sweet and pleasantly tangy, excellent fresh in late June. The soft flesh keeps poorly, and another early-flowering cherry helps provide regular crops.

Guigne Noire de Ruesnes

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

Guigne Noire de Ruesnes is a dark red sweet cherry which ripens in early July.

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

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: 1468 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Guigne Noire de Ruesnes is a dark red sweet cherry which ripens in late June or early July. It is quite widely grown in the north of France.

“Guigne” is a French word for a sweet cherry with a soft flesh – as opposed to the “Bigarreau” type which has a firmer flesh.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Well-known local variety from western Avesnois, found notably in Ruesnes, Floyon, Jolimetz and Berlaimont, and formerly distributed by the nurseryman Auguste Wannyn in Odomez. Origin date not found.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1-3 days

Use

Fresh eating