michael adams wrote:
"Tony Wood" wrote in message
...
Quick question to settle a disagreement:

Can you grow a cherry tree from a stone from a bought cherry or
are
the stones (usually) sterile?

Tony.


Even if you can grow a cherry, its quite possible that the tree
might grow unacceptably large.

This is because the fruiting scions of many fruit trees are
grafted onto a rooting stock, dwarf, semi-dwarf, etc, which limits
the overall size of the tree. Both for reasons of space, and easier
harvesting.

Any tree grown from the fruit or cuttings from the upper part of
the tree above the graft, will produce a tree of the original size.

Are you sure of that statement about trees grown from the above-graft
fruit? The problem is surely that with almost all fruit trees you
don't know what you're going to get, because they're hybrids, and
often quite complex ones. The stock won't make any genetic input to
the fruit. But, in answer to the OP, I'd say the stones are almost
always fertile.

--
Mike.