Pollination Guide

Sweet Cherry Pollination List

Below you will find a compatibility list for sweet cherry varieties. The highlighted variety is compatible in pollination with the varieties following.

Bing: Harland, Lapins, Rainier, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Hartland: Bing, Kristen, Lambert, Lapins, Rainier, Royal Ann, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Kirsten: Hartland, Lapins, Rainier, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Va

Lambert: Hartland, Kristen, Lapins, Rainier, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Lapins: Bing, Hartland, Kristen, Rainier, Royal Ann, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Rainier: Bing, Hartland, Kristen, Lambert, Royal Ann, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Royal Ann: Hartland, Kristen, Lapins, Rainier, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Sam: Bing, Hartland, Kristen, Lambert, Lapins, Rainier, Royal Ann, Stella, Sweetheart, Van

Stella: Bing, Hartland, Kirsten, Lambert, Lapins, Rainier, Royal Ann, Sam, Sweetheart, Van

Sweetheart: Bing, Hartland, Kristen, Lambert, Lapins, Rainier, Royal Ann, Sam, Stella, Van

Van: Bing Hartland, Kristen, Lambert, Lapins, Rainier, Royal Ann, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart

Self Fertile Varieties:

Sweet Cherry: Lapins, Stella, Sweetheart

Sour (Pie) Cherries: Montmorency, Northstar

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Apple Pollination Chart

Some Apples are considered self-fertile.  To ensure good crops, apples should have a pollinating partner.  There is much overlap in bloom times, but for the best crops, choose a partner with the same bloom time or one step in either direction.  Two steps in either direction will also work, but early blooming apples shouldn’t be partnered with late blooming apples.  Crabapples with white flowers are known as particularly good pollinizers, and are beautiful and showy in the spring.

Bloom Times

SEASON
EARLY: Callaway Crab, Calypso, Chehalis, Dolgo Crab, Era, Gravenstein*, Lodi, Mountain Rose Red Flesh, Odysso, Pink Pearl, Scarlet Surprise Red Flesh, Spartan, Whitney (Crab), William’s Pride, Wynooche Early, Yellow Transparent

EARLY-MID: Amere de Berthcourt Cider, Ashmead’s Kernal*, Braeburn, Cortland, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Empire, Firecracker Red Flesh (Crab), Freedom, Golden Russet, Haralson, Honeygold, Jonathan, Karmijn*, Kerr Crab, Liberty, Lubsk Queen, Mutsu*, Pink Lady, Prima, Snow Famuse, Transcendent Crab, Wealthy, Winesap*

LATE-MID: Akane, Arkansas Black*, Criterion, Enterprise, Fuji, Gala, Golden Sentinel Columnar, GoldRush, Holstein*, Honeycrisp, Hudson’s Golden Gem, Jonagold*, King*, Macoun, Melrose, Northpole Columnar, Queen Cox, Rubinette, Sansa, Scarlet Sentinel Columnar, Spitzenberg, Summer Rambo*, Summerred, WineCrisp, Winter Banana, Wolf River, Yellow Delicious

LATE: Calville Blanc D’Hiver, Ellison’s Orange, Prairie Spy, Red Fuji, Red Spy, Roxbury Russet*

*Triploid apples have sterile pollen and need two non-triploid pollinating partners—a trio of trees with compatible bloom times.
This will ensure a bountiful apple harvest for all three trees.