Sweet Cherry Pollination: based on compatibility groups and bloom time
May 2000
Robert L. Andersen, Jay Freer Kenneth G Livermore and Cheol Choi
This is a survey of compatibility in sweet cherry cultivars, which are important for commercial or breeding material, based on controlled pollination tests and/or S-allele genotyping by PCR analysis and bloom time records from the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, NY.
Self-incompatibility cultivars
Self-compatibility cultivars
These self-fertile sweet cherries can be used as Universal donors (cross compatible to SI) for self-incompatible sweet cherries if they have synchronous bloom times.
| SF Sweet Cherries | Bloom time* |
| Lapins | Early |
| Skeena | Early |
| Sweetheart | Early Mid |
| Vandalay | Early Mid |
| WhitegoldTM | Early Mid |
| Sonata | Mid |
| Stella | Mid |
| Symphony | Mid |
| Tehranivee | Mid |
| Sunburst | Late Mid |
| BlackgoldTM | Late |
*This bloom time category is based on above self-incompatible sweet cherry's.