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Nanking Cherry Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A compact hardy shrub with spring blossom and small tart cherries in early summer, easy to grow in beds or large pots.

Nanking Cherry

Prunus tomentosa

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (6)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Powdery Mildew

Disease

White patches appear scattered on the upper leaf surface at first, then the whole leaf is coated in a white powder. Leaves later yellow, brown and die back, and reduced photosynthesis cuts growth and yield.

Gray Mold

Disease

Water-soaked brown lesions form on flowers, fruit and leaves, densely covered by a fuzzy gray mold. Fruit rots and drops, and decay continues in storage after harvest.

Brown Rot

Disease

Blossoms brown and die, and round brown lesions on fruit expand rapidly. Grayish white powdery mold forms in concentric rings on the lesion and the fruit finally dries into a hard mummy.

Coriolopsis Wood RotPlum PocketLeaf Shaking Disease

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