Haven't seen anything on my cherries but I think I have some on the other stone fruit. It shows up as discoloration of the leaves. I'm trying to get rid of those plants but have recently had symptoms on trees the first year planted. I think it's coming from the nursery but could be off base.

So far I can not see any negative effects on the fruit yield or eating quality.

Virus on first year Sweet Treat:

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Virus on Flavor Treat:

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Virus free Flavor Treat: same age, rootstock and source.

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Virus on pluot:

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Virus on nectarine:

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Rob,

The most prevalent stone fruit virus I hear of is X disease (technically not a virus, but behaves like a virus). Supposedly any trees on mahaleb will die fairly quickly. They say a lot of wild chokecherry carry the disease.

I really don't know much about identifying viruses in stone fruit, but I think the bad ones are pretty obvious (ringspot viruses, dwarf virus and plum pox).

The only experience of wild cherry I have is the sort of wild cherry in my backyard. About 10 years ago my father-in-law dug up a seedling under some grafted cherry tree and planted the seedling in my backyard. The foliage is healthy other than sometimes it gets cherry leaf spot (Surprisingly the fruit is really pretty decent.) The disadvantage is that it sends up tons of suckers I have to keep mowed off.

That's how my pluerry looked like before it died----oohhh, the watering issue was not the problem, it was the virus; The leaves are going to die first, then the rootstock.

That's how my pluerry looked like before it died----oohhh, the watering issue was not the problem, it was the virus that killed my pluerry; The leaves are going to die first: First, the leaves will turn yellow, then brown and finally the rootstock will eventually die--it's going to show signs of dryness.

Thanks for the info