Our Variety Assessment

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

Géant d’Hedelfingen suits gardens and orchards with room for a vigorous cherry tree. It is a reliable choice for growers seeking a late, hardy and regularly productive cultivar. The dark-red to black fruit is firm and juicy, with reasonably good resistance to rain cracking. A compatible pollinator and a rootstock suited to the available space are required.

Hedelfingen

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

An old late-season sweet cherry from Germany.

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: 2583 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Hedelfingen is an old-fashioned dark red / black sweet cherry, which ripens late in the cherry season.

It is thought to originate from Germany in the 18th or 19th century.

Despite its age Hedelfingen has many of the features modern growers expect. It crops regularly and reliably from a young age, is cold hardy, reasonably resistant to fruit splitting, and produces a tidy tree which is easy for hand-picking.