Ask the Plant Doctor! How to grow cherries in Malaysia


Growing cherries in tropical areas like Malaysia presents particular challenges. Photo: JIRI Rotrekl/Pixabay

Many cherries found in supermarkets are hybrids, carefully cultivated for desired traits such as size, flavour or shelf life. Consequently, seeds from these fruits may not be true to their parent, meaning the plants grown from these seeds could have very different characteristics from the original cherry tree.

Most likely, however, these seeds would not be viable at all.

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