Growing Cherries is fruitless...

[stoked_toker]

Had five orchards of cherries growing. In five years there were no cherries available to the populace, or at the orchards. Something wrong here...

[juliejayne]

Are you sure? Cherries are very short lived fruits. When they ripen you MUST have labourers free to transport them to granaries and then to sales stalls, ASAP.

[Bjørn]

Yes, cherries were given very short time to decompose, after food spoilage was introduced.

Apricots also have short life, I think. Apples last for over a year.

It should say in the stats screen how much cherries you've produced, how much were sold, and how much got spoiled, etc.

I recommend setting 'dried fruit' to max on the orchards, as well as transporting them quickly for sale like juliejayne says.

Or change the tree type to apples in the orchards. It will take 2+ years for new fruit to appear after changing, I believe.

[juliejayne]

Bjorn is right. I am not certain if cherries can be turned to dried fruit, I know that apricots can be. But yes take a look in the stat to see what is happening to your cherries. And swapping at least 3 of those orchards to Apples or Apricots is sound advice.

One word of warning, swapping an orchard over to another fruit type, will fill the Orchard store with a lot of fire wood, the old trees. You may need to intervene and force that firewood into other storage facilities. Otherwise it can sit there forever and never get used.

[Fred Sanford]

Have Cherry and Apricot orchards staffed between the beginning of July through the end of September. Use only 1 person to harvest so you don't get swamped, but make sure you have granaries and market stalls ready to go to pull the fruit in. I use dedicated market stalls that are closest to housing centers using seasonal hiring that stock nothing but cherries and apricots.

[Anthracite]

No one else noticed the pun in the title? No? Well I did, well done.

[juliejayne]

Originally posted by Anthracite:

No one else noticed the pun in the title? No? Well I did, well done.

Yes, but never considered it as just a prank post. I assume people are being genuine until shown otherwise.

[Bjørn]

Hehe yes I also noticed the fitting title, of course, but felt no need to comment on it.

[vabue]

At first game time, I also grew cherries and apricots more than necessary. Later, I changed to apples, which are stored longer, good feed for pigs and can be sold in two cities. As Fred Sanford aptly said, cherries and apricots need to be dried as much as possible, so we put 100 + max workers and need to set up separately for two months longer work period. Cherry and apricots should be set to a minimum in barns, because there is no point in taking them out of the garden (because the gardens are processed for drying). One+one orchards of cherries and apricots will always be enough, except for very large cities.

[stoked_toker]

Had three workers per orchard year round. Whenever I checked the inventory, at various times of the year, never showed any cherries, or apricots when I tried them. I generally do go with apples, never had a problem there. Will try some of the suggestions made, thanks for all the replies!

[vabue]

Originally posted by stoked_toker:

Had three workers per orchard year round. Whenever I checked the inventory, at various times of the year, never showed any cherries, or apricots when I tried them. I generally do go with apples, never had a problem there. Will try some of the suggestions made, thanks for all the replies!

There is no point in keeping workers in orchards outside the harvest season. Unless, for example, for cherries and apricots, under the necessary condition of the absence of a permit in warehouses for these fruits. Then they will process the maximum of the harvest into dry land for the month following the month of collection. If they are taken to the warehouse, most of the crop will rot there, because it does not have time to sell from the tray. But apples are very profitable to take to warehouses for sale or, for example, to feed pigs, because they do not rot for more than half a year.