Kordia cherry trees

Kordia cherry tree
  • Best seller
  • Pick: Late-season (early August)
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Uses: Eat fresh 
  • Pollination partners

Kordia is a new black cherry variety, which has quickly become popular with both commercial growers and gardeners on account of the large fruit size, glossy black skin, and excellent flavour,

Kordia cherries are also resistant to the splitting caused by summer rain.

If you want a cherry that is very big, and really black, this is the one to choose!

Kordia cherry trees for sale

Deliveries start December 2018.

Mature size* Supplied as Price Quantity
Medium  (2.5m - 3m after 5-10 years) 1-year - bare-root - Gisela 5 rootstock €27.90
Medium  (2.5m - 3m after 5-10 years) 1-year - bare-root - Weigi 2 rootstock €27.90
Medium  (2.5m - 3.5m after 5-10 years) 1-year - bare-root - Weigi 1 rootstock €27.90

Delivery period: Trees are delivered between November and March. However it is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you. If you live in an area with very cold winters please let us know so that we can scheduled delivery for early spring.

*Mature size: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime.

Stock availability: Items showing as 'sold out' will probably be available again next season. Click here to be notified when we get more trees of this variety.

Alternatives to Kordia cherry trees

  • Alternative fruit trees - Penny cherry trees

    Penny cherry trees

    Makes a good partner for Kordia if you like black cherries.
    Very late-season (3) 
    Eat 
  • Alternative fruit trees - Stella cherry trees

    Stella cherry trees

    A self-fertile variety and a good pollinator for Kordia.
    Mid-season (4) SF
    Eat 

Summary features of Kordia

Growing

  • Gardening skill: Average?
  • Cropping: Good
  • Fertility: Not self-fertile?
  • Flowering group: 4?
  • Pollinating others: Average?
  • Ploidy: Diploid?
  • Vigour: Large?
  • Bearing regularity: Regular?
  • Fruit persistence: Normal ripening?
  • Canker: Very resistant?
  • Fruit splitting: Very resistant?

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: Czech Republic
  • Period of origin: 1950 - 1999
  • Fruit colour: Black
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popularity: Best sellers?

Climate

  • Frost resistance: Susceptible?
  • Warm climates?
  • Temperate climates
  • Low-chill requirement
    700-750 hours?
  • Planting position: Full sun preferred

Pollination guide for Kordia

Kordia is in flowering group 4. Kordia is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby.

How to grow Kordia cherry trees

Kordia is not self-fertile and therefore needs a pollination partner. Any self-fertile cherry variety will be suitable, particularly Stella and Sweetheart. You can also use Penny (another black cherry) or Regina.

Kordia blossoms quite late but the blossom is not particularly frost-resistant, and it is best grown in a sheltered area, or at the top of a slope where frost can drain away downwards.

It has a fairly low-chill requirement of 700-750 hours, making it a useful variety for warmer climates.

Historical details

Kordia is a chance seedling of unknown parentage, found near Techlovice in the Czech Republic in the 1960s. It is also known as Attika and Techlovika II.

Botanical name

Prunus avium 'Kordia'