PC7146-23 Sweet Cherry

marketed under the Chelan (tm) brand

USPP8545 until December 24, 2012 (expired) google patents

AKA Chelan (tm)

released 1994

Bing -10

S-Allele: S3S9 [169,206,22]

Collections

• papers/Self-incompatibility (S) genotypes of cultivated sweet cherries

  country of origin: US Stella Beaulieu

• National/US Patent List
• Idaho/UIdaho Tree Fruit Varieties for Idaho

  A popular early season, export-quality dark red sweet cherry. Similar to Bing in appearance, the fruit is medium-to large in size, with a mahogany red skin and medium-to-dark red flesh. It ripens 10 to 12 days before Bing, has good firmness and flavor, and exhibits lower susceptibility to both rain-induced cracking and heat-induced double/spur fruit formation than Bing. It flowers precociously and fruits heavily, requiring good management to achieve optimal fruit size. Precocious rootstocks are not needed for early cropping and may make management for optimal fruit size more intensive. Cross pollinizers include Rainier, Bing, Van, and Index. Chelan is incompatible with Burlat, Tieton and PC 7214-3. Do not propagate on Mahaleb rootstocks

• commercial/Burchell variety list
• commercial/DWN/DWN Commercial Harvest Times
• Washington/WSU Cherry Releases

  http://treefruit.wsu.edu/variety/chelan/ https://www.canr.msu.edu/hrt/uploads/534/82106/Chelan_Sweet_Cherry.pdf

• Oregon/OSU PNW 604 Sweet Cherry Cultivars for the Fresh Market
• Oregon/OSU EM 9056 Sweet Cherry Cultivars for Brining, Freezing, and Canning in Oregon

  Low suitability for brining. Aborted cherries on tree tend not to drop until crop is fully mature. Pits in aborted cherries tend to shatter. Pollenizer: Bing

• California/Contra Costa County Sweet Cherries

Harvest Times

• May 10 to May 25 [ref]