Large, fleshy fruit, round, unusually sweet, mild-flavored fruit produced in medium sized clusters. Cultivar has performed well at Morden, Manitoba, and has shown fairly consistent cropping pattern. This cultivar is high yielding but its fruit is slow to ripen, has a rather bland taste and is tenaciously held to the flower pedicel. Diseases Juneberries are subject to a number of diseases, few of which are of significance to the homeowner. Commercial Juneberry production requires careful disease monitoring and prevention measures.
Diseases are more prevalent in areas of higher rainfall than in dryer regions.
Control recommendations emphasize cultural methods such as pruning since no chemicals presently are registered for Juneberries. Pruning tools should be disinfected after each cut in order to prevent infection of healthy tissue. To minimize losses from this disease, remove and destroy all mummified berries, fallen berries, leaves, infected twigs and pedicels. Spores are windborne to junipers, the alternate host, where woody galls are formed on the branches. To control blackleaf, rogue and destroy infected seedlings, cuttings and root sprouts.