Skylar Rae cherries about a week before harvest. In tests, the soluble solids have been as high as 30° Brix. If you were designing the perfect cherry, you might want one that looks similar to Rainier, but brighter colored. It would ripen a couple of weeks earlier, to get a jump on the market. It would be sweeter than Rainier, yet with a good amount of acid to make it flavorful. It would be big and crisp, and, importantly, not susceptible to bruising. A Wenatchee, Washington, family appears to have discovered such an unlikely cherry growing quite by chance in […]