What Does a Che Fruit Taste Like?

Many customers ask us what a Che fruit tastes like so we've asked Patrick and Catherine to try one for the first time and tell us what they think. The Che is also known as the Chinese Melonberry and is a relative of the Mulberry. Cudrania tricuspidata is available in a variety of cultivars from our nursery www.crickethillgarden.com. Have you tried a Che? What do you think?

[@hunam3876]

Can't wait 'till you ship my Cudranias this October!

[@DarkFoxKirin]

I love that you’re just constantly eating the fruit off of the tree throughout the whole video 😂. I live in zone 8 and I’m very eager to get my own! Tho I am sad to learn it might take a few years to bear fruit…

[@amanda69]

I got to taste my Che tree fruit last summer for the first time, they are 6 years old and very very very small grafted female plants I have 3 of them. I'm so disappointed in their size 2 are still under 2 feet and one is probably 3 1/2 feet tall. They cost a lot. I am having the same problem they have a lot of berries every year but they never get ripe and they just fall off. For some reason last year the bigger trees berries ripened. I was so happy to be able to finally try some. I love them they taste so good. Now if I can just figure out why they are staying so small?

[@XoroksComment]

Great video, I subscribed 👍🏻

[@cathybohan3446]

I just tasted che fruit this weekend here in the central Blue Ridge of Virginia. To me, the flavor is if you mixed a mild fig with a mild strawberry and they were very ripe fruit.

[@raymondkyruana118]

Would you grow your own?

[@thearmy88ify]

@@raymondkyruana118 You should be able to get ripe fruit in zone 7 or 6 under greenhouse. The fruit he is tasting is only half as ripe as it should because it is too cold there. The tree at edible landscaping (che seedless) produces dark red che with the most amazing sweet complex flavor. It is like a ripe berry fig/raspberry/melon.

[@timschannel910]

What soil do you need when planting one. Do you add anything to the soil when planting.

[@raymondkyruana118]

Definitely want to purchase these from you but I live in a, colder than you, zone 6 in New England. can they ripen off the tree at all?

[@AncientHippie]

Thank you, do you know if the deer eat the leaves?

[@southao2692]

How would i buy 1 ?

[@timschannel910]

How much does it cost

[@jolus6678]

Hmm. You said zone 9 but I'm reading zone 10. I'm in Zone 10 and read that it would remain evergreen here and that it needs no chill hours to fruit.

[@dawnkirk2838]

I bought a female ( maybe Norris?)from you a few years ago. I'm in zone 5b. My tree is about three- four years old. No fruit yet. Might have to buy a male.

[@jewelcate]

Is this growing in Hot Climate?

[@riveryzen]

They say it grows in zones 5b - 9 so I would say yes.

[@Acts-1322]

He says in the video, he is in zone 6. Connecticut USA.

[@wanlegend889]

Is it your che fruit tree has thorn? Because my che fruit tree has a thorn

[@TSis76]

Mine had thorns on the bottom. They were actually only from the thorny Osage orange root stock, so chopped em off.

[@user-fn9ug2zb9h]

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[@bluegrassdiggers9030]

Communist?