I noticed last weekend my Cherry of the Rio Grande was starting to leaf out. After that intense cold spell we had back in early January I wasn't sure if it was going to come back or not. Looks like it's lost about two inches of twig tips all the way around, but it's definitely leafing out. It's planted in a completely unprotected flower bed.

.....Alan.

Ours is covered with flowers this week! Anxiously awaiting the crop.
Malcolm

I had one once and I dug it out. Way to sour fir my taste buds

Mine was about 15 feet tall. I pulled it out because the amount of fruit was so little, a few dozen at most, and the birds ate most of them.

Does anyone produce many fruit? I am wondering if I want to keep mine now. Does Surinam produce more fruit Than the Cherry of the Rio Grand or how do they compare. I have several and like them. It seems that the Rio Grand grows slow.

I wasn't sure if it was going to be worth keeping for its fruit or not, but it makes such a nice dark green bush I planted it where it would have some ornamental value. Haven't seen any blossoms yet. I was hoping it would this year as it was approaching six feet tall last fall.

.....Alan.

A mature plant of either cherry of the Rio Grande or Surinam cherry can really load up with a lot of fruit. COTRG has far less eugenol in it, so the flavor is less offensive to people who don't like that furniture-polish after taste.

There must be a lot of variation in COTRG, though, since ours is not very sour at all.

We do grow an excellent Surinam cherry -- the cultivar 'Zill Dark', which is a large, nearly black fruit, with very little eugenol, and can be quite sweet.