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open-pollinated
Purple Bumble Bee
Also sold as: Artisan Purple Bumble Bee
Modern Artisan open-pollinated striped cherry with sweet complex flavour and unusually good crack and temperature tolerance.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Cherry
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 13 g (10–15 g)
- Days to maturity
- 65 days (60–70) from transplant
- Sweetness
- High
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- High
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Heat tolerance
- High
- Cool-climate suitability
- High
- Growing notes
- The vigorous vines fruit over a long season. Strong light develops the characteristic dark maroon/purple and green striping, temperature-extreme tolerance is repeatedly noted by the breeder/seed trade.
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