Looking for late ripening cherry suggestions.

I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for later ripening sweet cherries. Bonus if they’re either self fertile or resistant to bacterial canker. I am in zone seven but have a short growing season so when they can take spring frosts is also helpful. I already have a few trees that are the normal cherry season and would like to have cherries for more than a few weeks during the year.

Ken Crum wrote:I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for later ripening sweet cherries. Bonus if they’re either self fertile or resistant to bacterial canker. I am in zone seven but have a short growing season so when they can take spring frosts is also helpful. I already have a few trees that are the normal cherry season and would like to have cherries for more than a few weeks during the year.

Not sure if any tree form cherries would fit the bill, but there are the Meader bush cherries (Jan, Joel and Joy) that kinda make it - they're later flowering and later ripening. They're considered tart / pie cherry, though many claim they're more sweet than that label implies, and the fruit size / stone size are supposedly similar to tree form cherries. I believe they're self fertile but "Joel" acts as pollinator for "Jan" and "Joy", increasing yield significantly. Might be wrong on that (going from memory here!)

I'm not sure how tolerant / resistant they are of bacterial canker. Some research would likely turn up something if you look.

I'm hoping to put in a good number of these in the future myself, but haven't had the money to sink into that yet, so can't say for sure how sweet or large they truly are.

Our wild cherries in zone 5 are delicious, ripen in late summer or early fall it seems. I haven’t paid too close attention but we got them this year about September. There was a hardish frost in late may that killed all the blueberry and chestnut crops and vastly reduced acorns