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Choke Cherries #8444820
07/29/25 10:52 AM
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I have a big choke cherry tree in my yard. I was wondering, are choke cherries good for anything besides making you pucker?


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8444824
07/29/25 10:59 AM
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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8444829
07/29/25 11:04 AM
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Makes good pancake syrup.

Re: Choke Cherries [Re: foxhunter52] #8444833
07/29/25 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by foxhunter52
Makes good pancake syrup.

I bet it would based on what yotetrapper's post said about it.
Got a really heavy crop on the tree this year. Might have to try making some.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8444861
07/29/25 12:08 PM
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Syrup and jelly, won't need sure gel with them either.

Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8444865
07/29/25 12:16 PM
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In an aesthetic point of view, I planted two some years ago. They provide wonderful long blooms of white flowers that smell like honey in spring. Honey bees love them. Later, they offer berries that help birds in nesting season. In fall, the leaves turn wonderful shades of pastel colours, apricot, salmon, violet, orange, reds . No other tall shrub or tree has so many pastel colours .

The only thing they need is keeping the shoots on runners from growing up around them if a single trunk is wanted.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Sharon] #8444947
07/29/25 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Sharon
In an aesthetic point of view, I planted two some years ago. They provide wonderful long blooms of white flowers that smell like honey in spring. Honey bees love them. Later, they offer berries that help birds in nesting season. In fall, the leaves turn wonderful shades of pastel colours, apricot, salmon, violet, orange, reds . No other tall shrub or tree has so many pastel colours .

The only thing they need is keeping the shoots on runners from growing up around them if a single trunk is wanted.

That's true. I keep cutting the shoots every summer. I wonder if the birds pucker up when they eat the berries like I do? laugh


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8444959
07/29/25 03:24 PM
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grin So that's why my birds always make that face when they eat them !


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8444998
07/29/25 04:56 PM
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No you all are making it sound much worse than it really is when you grab a hand full of chokecherrys then eat them or enter is a pit spitting contest ha ha

I like eating them right off the tree , or the syrup or jelly made from them or even wine is darn good .

Wild plums and buffalo berries are good eating after the first frost .


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445010
07/29/25 05:23 PM
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As others have said, they make excellent syrup. My trees are LOADED this year too. Between the berries, hazelnuts and acorn crop, the bear hunters may have a tough time this Fall.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445077
07/29/25 07:41 PM
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Supposed to knock the crap out of certain Cancers when the pits are ground up and mixed in as a pudding .

Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445165
07/29/25 09:35 PM
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I have one right next to our cabin(25’) that is loaded with fruit every year and not a single one makes it to picking ripe. Not birds getting them but chipmunks stripping them green. It’s too close to other trees to make some kind of trunk barrier.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445233
07/29/25 10:33 PM
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Everything loves them from coyotes to bears coons and skunks. Yesterday I saw a hen pheasant up in at tree eating them.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445246
07/29/25 10:42 PM
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Be sure to strain the little seeds out with cheesecloth. Them little seeds get stuck in the teeth badly. They do make good jelly. We also have a great crop of elderberries and wild plums this year. All the wild critters will like it. The past couple years haven't been good for wild fruit.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445249
07/29/25 10:44 PM
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As was said choke cherry syrup is fine table fare.

Good jelly too.

I actually like to eat them off the tree as well.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: 160user] #8445254
07/29/25 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 160user
As others have said, they make excellent syrup. My trees are LOADED this year too. Between the berries, hazelnuts and acorn crop, the bear hunters may have a tough time this Fall.

I'm thinking the same thing. Looks like a bumper crop of everything this year.

Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445347
07/30/25 05:11 AM
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If you find a bumper crop of blue berries let me know.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445377
07/30/25 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Trapper7
I have a big choke cherry tree in my yard. I was wondering, are choke cherries good for anything besides making you pucker?

Love eating them by the handful and spitting the seeds out.


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: 160user] #8445389
07/30/25 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by 160user
As others have said, they make excellent syrup. My trees are LOADED this year too. Between the berries, hazelnuts and acorn crop, the bear hunters may have a tough time this Fall.


Well, make some syrup and send me a bottle then!


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Re: Choke Cherries [Re: Trapper7] #8445394
07/30/25 06:56 AM
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As MT stated, bears love 'em.

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