Item Number: FT095
Utah Giant Cherry Tree
Utah Giant Cherry Tree
Supersized cherries with bold flavor
Utah Giant cherry trees are renowned for their extra-large fruit and bold, sweet flavor, making them a favorite among cherry enthusiasts. The cherries have dark red skin, firm texture, and juicy flesh, ideal for fresh eating, baking, and preserves. This mid-season variety ripens slightly later than Bing, extending your cherry harvest. Utah Giant requires a pollinator, such as Stella or Bing, to produce its best yields. Thriving in sunny, well-draining locations, this tree requires moderate chill hours and performs well in regions with colder winters. With its vigorous growth, showy spring blossoms, and outstanding fruit quality, Utah Giant is an excellent choice for home orchards or small farms. Its combination of size, flavor, and versatility makes it a standout variety for anyone who loves cherries.
Standard on Maxma rootstock.
- Zones: 4-9
- Chill hours: 400-600
- Bloom Time: Mid-season (Based on typical Central Valley California weather)
- Harvest: May 20 - June 5
- Looks: Large, firm fleshed cherries with dark red skin.
- Personality: More flavorful than Bing or Lambert.
- Facts of note: One of the largest and most flavorful of all modern cherry varieties . A favorite of the Utah commercial growers. Much more complete flavor than a Bing and typically ripens later. One could plant both and enjoy the best sweet cherries for over a month. Plant with a Bing and Rainier to extend the harvest even more. Sets a heavy crop of large extremely flavorful fruit. Because of its firmness it is considered a #1 selection for those who love to can or cook with cherries.
- Pollination: Pollinated by Bing, Lambert, Rainier, Van.
Growing and Caring for Your Utah Giant Cherry Tree
- Ideal Planting Location:
- Plant your Utah Giant cherry tree in a location that receives full sun for optimal growth and fruit production.
- This tree thrives in well-draining soil, ideally in USDA zones 4-9, and can tolerate cold hardy winters.
- Choose a spot with good air circulation to prevent disease and ensure healthy tree development.
- Watering and Fertilization:
- Utah Giant cherry trees require regular watering, especially during dry periods, but ensure soil drainage to avoid waterlogging that can affect the tree's vigor.
- Fertilize with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer in early spring to promote growth and fruiting, providing the nutrients needed for the tree to produce large, firm fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor.
- Avoid over-fertilizing, as this may lead to excessive growth at the expense of fruit production.
- Pruning and Maintenance:
- Prune your Utah Giant cherry tree during the dormant season (late winter or early spring) to maintain an upright growing tree shape and improve air circulation.
- Remove any dead or diseased branches, and thin the canopy to allow sunlight to reach all parts of the tree, ensuring even ripening of large, crack-resistant cherries.
- Regular pruning will also help the tree bear heavy crops of exceptionally large fruit year after year.
- Pest and Disease Control:
- Utah Giant cherry trees are generally disease-resistant trees, but you should monitor for common pests like aphids, cherry fruit flies, and spider mites.
- Apply organic pest control measures as needed to protect the tree from damage while preserving its natural vigor and ensuring sweet cherries with red blush skin.
- Keep an eye out for fungal diseases such as powdery mildew, and treat with appropriate organic fungicides to maintain the health of the tree and its firm, dark red cherries.
Pollination and Fruit Production
The Utah Giant cherry tree requires cross-pollination with other sweet cherries, such as Bing, Stella, or Rainier cherries, to achieve the best yields. This vigorous tree bears early, producing exceptionally large fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor and dark red flesh. The large, crack-resistant cherries have a delicious purplish flesh and are known for their sweet tart flavor and considerable red blush. As a prolific bearer, the Utah Giant thrives in full sun and USDA zones 4-9, offering a cold hardy option for home gardens and commercial orchards alike. With proper pollination, it consistently produces large firm round fruit of excellent quality, making it a standout choice for both fresh eating and preserving.
Harvesting Utah Giant Cherries
Harvesting Utah Giant cherries occurs from late May to early June, just as the fruit reaches its peak ripeness, showing a dark red color with a considerable red blush. These cherries develop a distinctive sweet flavor and a firm fruit texture, making them perfect for eating fresh or using in preserves. The Utah Giant cherry tree, known for its large crack-resistant cherries, produces exceptionally large fruit with dark burgundy skin and delicious purplish flesh, ensuring a bountiful harvest of sweet cherries. Since this variety is a vigorous tree and a prolific bearer, it yields large, firm round fruit with sweet flesh and semi-sweet flesh, offering a delightful combination of flavors, ideal for both fresh consumption and culinary uses.
Taste and Versatility of Utah Giant Cherries
The Utah Giant cherry tree produces exceptionally large fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor that combines a perfect balance of sweet tart flavor and sweet flesh. These cherries have a rich dark red flesh, dark burgundy skin, and a delicious purplish flesh, making them perfect for eating fresh or using in a variety of recipes. Known for their large crack-resistant cherries and vigorous trees, the Utah Giant is a leading commercial sweet cherry variety that thrives in full sun, yielding a prolific harvest of large firm round fruit with a considerable red blush, ideal for baking, preserves, and fresh consumption.
Why Buy Utah Giant Cherry Tree From Us?
When you purchase a Utah Giant cherry tree from us, you’re choosing a leading commercial sweet cherry variety that offers exceptionally large fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor. Our vigorous trees are disease resistant, cold hardy, and produce large crack-resistant cherries with dark red flesh and sweet flesh, perfect for eating fresh or preserving. Grown by Dave Wilson Nursery, our trees are a productive variety that bears heavy crops of heart-shaped cherries with a considerable red blush—ensuring an abundant harvest year after year.
Visit our Fruit Tree Central for a listing of all our fruit tree videos and articles.
Visit Tree Characteristics for a listing of all our fruit & nut tree growing characteristics.
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Description
Description
Utah Giant cherry trees are renowned for their extra-large fruit and bold, sweet flavor, making them a favorite among cherry enthusiasts. The cherries have dark red skin, firm texture, and juicy flesh, ideal for fresh eating, baking, and preserves. This mid-season variety ripens slightly later than Bing, extending your cherry harvest. Utah Giant requires a pollinator, such as Stella or Bing, to produce its best yields. Thriving in sunny, well-draining locations, this tree requires moderate chill hours and performs well in regions with colder winters. With its vigorous growth, showy spring blossoms, and outstanding fruit quality, Utah Giant is an excellent choice for home orchards or small farms. Its combination of size, flavor, and versatility makes it a standout variety for anyone who loves cherries.
Standard on Maxma rootstock.
- Zones: 4-9
- Chill hours: 400-600
- Bloom Time: Mid-season (Based on typical Central Valley California weather)
- Harvest: May 20 - June 5
- Looks: Large, firm fleshed cherries with dark red skin.
- Personality: More flavorful than Bing or Lambert.
- Facts of note: One of the largest and most flavorful of all modern cherry varieties . A favorite of the Utah commercial growers. Much more complete flavor than a Bing and typically ripens later. One could plant both and enjoy the best sweet cherries for over a month. Plant with a Bing and Rainier to extend the harvest even more. Sets a heavy crop of large extremely flavorful fruit. Because of its firmness it is considered a #1 selection for those who love to can or cook with cherries.
- Pollination: Pollinated by Bing, Lambert, Rainier, Van.
Growing and Caring for Your Utah Giant Cherry Tree
- Ideal Planting Location:
- Plant your Utah Giant cherry tree in a location that receives full sun for optimal growth and fruit production.
- This tree thrives in well-draining soil, ideally in USDA zones 4-9, and can tolerate cold hardy winters.
- Choose a spot with good air circulation to prevent disease and ensure healthy tree development.
- Watering and Fertilization:
- Utah Giant cherry trees require regular watering, especially during dry periods, but ensure soil drainage to avoid waterlogging that can affect the tree's vigor.
- Fertilize with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer in early spring to promote growth and fruiting, providing the nutrients needed for the tree to produce large, firm fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor.
- Avoid over-fertilizing, as this may lead to excessive growth at the expense of fruit production.
- Pruning and Maintenance:
- Prune your Utah Giant cherry tree during the dormant season (late winter or early spring) to maintain an upright growing tree shape and improve air circulation.
- Remove any dead or diseased branches, and thin the canopy to allow sunlight to reach all parts of the tree, ensuring even ripening of large, crack-resistant cherries.
- Regular pruning will also help the tree bear heavy crops of exceptionally large fruit year after year.
- Pest and Disease Control:
- Utah Giant cherry trees are generally disease-resistant trees, but you should monitor for common pests like aphids, cherry fruit flies, and spider mites.
- Apply organic pest control measures as needed to protect the tree from damage while preserving its natural vigor and ensuring sweet cherries with red blush skin.
- Keep an eye out for fungal diseases such as powdery mildew, and treat with appropriate organic fungicides to maintain the health of the tree and its firm, dark red cherries.
Pollination and Fruit Production
The Utah Giant cherry tree requires cross-pollination with other sweet cherries, such as Bing, Stella, or Rainier cherries, to achieve the best yields. This vigorous tree bears early, producing exceptionally large fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor and dark red flesh. The large, crack-resistant cherries have a delicious purplish flesh and are known for their sweet tart flavor and considerable red blush. As a prolific bearer, the Utah Giant thrives in full sun and USDA zones 4-9, offering a cold hardy option for home gardens and commercial orchards alike. With proper pollination, it consistently produces large firm round fruit of excellent quality, making it a standout choice for both fresh eating and preserving.
Harvesting Utah Giant Cherries
Harvesting Utah Giant cherries occurs from late May to early June, just as the fruit reaches its peak ripeness, showing a dark red color with a considerable red blush. These cherries develop a distinctive sweet flavor and a firm fruit texture, making them perfect for eating fresh or using in preserves. The Utah Giant cherry tree, known for its large crack-resistant cherries, produces exceptionally large fruit with dark burgundy skin and delicious purplish flesh, ensuring a bountiful harvest of sweet cherries. Since this variety is a vigorous tree and a prolific bearer, it yields large, firm round fruit with sweet flesh and semi-sweet flesh, offering a delightful combination of flavors, ideal for both fresh consumption and culinary uses.
Taste and Versatility of Utah Giant Cherries
The Utah Giant cherry tree produces exceptionally large fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor that combines a perfect balance of sweet tart flavor and sweet flesh. These cherries have a rich dark red flesh, dark burgundy skin, and a delicious purplish flesh, making them perfect for eating fresh or using in a variety of recipes. Known for their large crack-resistant cherries and vigorous trees, the Utah Giant is a leading commercial sweet cherry variety that thrives in full sun, yielding a prolific harvest of large firm round fruit with a considerable red blush, ideal for baking, preserves, and fresh consumption.
Why Buy Utah Giant Cherry Tree From Us?
When you purchase a Utah Giant cherry tree from us, you’re choosing a leading commercial sweet cherry variety that offers exceptionally large fruit with a distinctive sweet flavor. Our vigorous trees are disease resistant, cold hardy, and produce large crack-resistant cherries with dark red flesh and sweet flesh, perfect for eating fresh or preserving. Grown by Dave Wilson Nursery, our trees are a productive variety that bears heavy crops of heart-shaped cherries with a considerable red blush—ensuring an abundant harvest year after year.
Visit our Fruit Tree Central for a listing of all our fruit tree videos and articles.
Visit Tree Characteristics for a listing of all our fruit & nut tree growing characteristics.
About Cherries: Cherries are a practical fruit for home orchards where climate and soil conditions are suitable. Once established, they require little maintenance and are reliable producers. They are best adapted to areas where summers are moderately cool. The trees dislike high humidity. They are usually the last fruit to bloom and first to ripen. Most varieties require a pollenizer. Sweet cherries can reach 25-30 feet tall in deep soils. Sensitive to wet, tight soils. Susceptible to birds, brown rot, and bacterial canker. Browse all our cherry trees for sale.
Please Note: Although most of our bare-root trees arrive to our warehouse in mid-December, there are a few varieties that will not arrive until mid-January. If you order any of those varieties along with varieties that arrive in mid-December, your order will be delayed for shipment until mid-January. If you'd like us to split your shipments, please contact us at (888) 784-1722 or orderdesk@groworganic.com. Additional shipping charges will apply.
Shipping Information
Shipping Information
Cannot ship to the following states: HI, AK, PR, GU, VI
Shipping Weight: 5.0 lb
Dimensions: 47.5"L x 7.3"W x 2.75"H
Features
Features
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Characteristics
Characteristics
Planting & Care
Planting & Care
Useful Information
Useful Information
Guarantee
Guarantee
Limited Dormant Tree & Plant Guarantee
* Claim deadline is June 15th
We guarantee that your dormant tree or plant will arrive in good, viable condition. If your tree arrives in substandard condition, notify us within 3 days of delivery. Please email pictures of the box, inside packaging, the tree and its roots to helpdesk@groworganic.com. We will investigate your claim and process a request to exchange or refund the damaged product.
If your dormant tree or plant has not grown new leaves by June 15th, you may be eligible for our Limited Dormant Tree & Plant Guarantee. This guarantee provides for a store credit for the purchase price of the tree, excluding shipping. Please see the Instructions below.
Important Dates:
- April 1st Dormant trees/plants must be planted in the ground
- May 15th Perform scratch test, if no new leaves have grown
- June 15th Deadline to apply for a dormant tree/plant credit
All required documentation must be received by June 15th for your claim to be considered. Claims or documentation received after June 15th will be denied, without exception. Instructions listed below
Terms and Conditions
We cannot guarantee that your tree or plant will remain alive and healthy after it is received, or bear fruit as there are too many variables in your environment that are beyond our control (i.e. soil preparation, weed and pest control, proper irrigation, chill hours, compatible hardiness for your growing zone, proper choice of pollinator, extreme weather, rodent damage, disease, etc.).
We cannot guarantee that we will be able to provide a replacement tree/plant of the same species either that same growing season or in future years. Customers are responsible for all shipping fees associated with replacement trees and plants.
If we determine that the tree you purchased directly from us is not viable, we will issue you a store credit (not a refund) for the purchase price of the affected dormant tree or plant. Shipping is not included in the dormant tree/plant guarantee. Store credits can be used to purchase any product we sell and are valid for use only until July 1st of the following year.
Historically, 98% of our dormant trees and plants grow and thrive when they have been cared for and planted using our growing guides. Dormant trees and plants must be planted in the ground by April 1st in order to be eligible for credit. If the ground in your area is still frozen solid, you may temporarily plant your tree or plant in a pot.
Potted, non-dormant trees or plants are excluded from this guarantee as they are not dormant at the time of shipment. Evergreen trees such as citrus, avocado and olive trees are not available for credit under the Dormant Tree and Plant Guarantee.
Instructions
We guarantee that your dormant fruit tree or plant will leaf out, if you care for it according to our growing guides. In the unlikely event that your dormant tree or plant does not have leaves by May 15th, follow these simple steps to apply for a store credit:
Before you call or email, please perform a “scratch test” to determine if the tree or plant is still alive. This video shows how to check for live tissue under the bark. Scratch tests need to be done a few inches above and below the graft.
Green Cambium Layer / Living Trees
If the cambium layer under the bark is green, give your tree a little more time. It is still alive, but hasn’t come out of dormancy yet. Check to make sure that it is getting the right amount of deep root water, enough sunlight and that the weather is warm enough for that type of tree/plant to come out of dormancy. Every tree has its own personality and will come out of dormancy at different times. Be sure to submit the required documentation listed below by June 15th, if it doesn’t grow leaves.
Brown Cambium Layer / Dead Trees
If the scratch test shows a brown cambium layer or if your dormant tree/plant doesn’t have leaves by June 1st, please email us at helpdesk@groworganic.com. All required documentation listed below must be received by June 15th for your claim to be considered. To be considered for the guarantee claim, all required documentation must be received by June 15th. Incomplete submissions will be denied.
Required Documentation
- Order number
- Name of dormant tree/plant and the quantity affected
- Photos of each tree or plant showing:
- The roots (tree or plant must be pulled out of the ground)
- The scratch test areas
- The entire tree/plant
We reserve the right to not issue credit for items that have already been replaced. We also reserve the right to require photographic evidence that the tree/plant was not killed by root rot, rodent or mechanical damage.
