What varieties of fruit trees do you grow? How you tried these?

TXrider - be careful of apples in Texas. Apples are very susceptible to Cotton root rot and with the alkaline soils in Texas cotton root rot is epidemic. Pears (other than the oriental varieties) usually succumb to fire blight. For peaches and plums and cherries make sure the chill hour requirements of the trees you plant match the chill hours your area averages each fall/winter.

I have three highbush cranberry bushes. Two of them are doing very well, this is the first year I am making jelly with the berries. The third one is a different variety, I guess, I'd like to just pull it out. I have tried paw paw, but they don't like it here. We are just a little too north for most fruit trees.

My apple trees bar one were here when we moved in and I don't know what they are, but I planted one of these 3 years ago http://www.foodiememoirs.com/index.p...apple-holstein hopefully we'll get some fruit next year.

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I am in USDA Zone 8. Unless I magically move back to Zone 5. LOL

Apples and most fruit do well here. I am close to a large PYO orchard that has dozens of varieties of apples/peaches/pears, but no real heritage varieties. Actually there are quite a few small orchards here too.


Thanks for the info everyone!!!!

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Royal anne cherries need a polinator that blooms at about the same time. Not just 2 royal anne trees....James

black berries
black walnut
sasafrass??
3 kinds of apples
and Persimmons ( strange and new to us but tasty)
steve

Can it be any cherry or do you know of specific ones that do best?

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No kidding!




Thanks!!!!




Man but they make it sound sooooooo yummy! LOL

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I've not heard of those trees either; but being in zone 8, you just might want to try one or two.

We have wild plums, wild peach, wild black cherries, wild paw paws, wild blackberries and raspberries, wild passion fruit (along with the various wild nut trees). Then a few years ago I planted Royalton Sweet Cherry and Black Gold Sweet Cherry, Hosiu Asian Pear and Starking Hardy Giant Asian Pear and several different types of blueberries that the goats trimmed so well I doubt they show up in the spring. We also planted both the York and the Nova Elderberry trees, a Fuyu Oriental Persimmon, a Methley Plum and 3 types of fig trees (Celeste, Kadota, Brown Turkey) as well as 3 Goji (Wolfberry) trees/bushes. Not sure what the Goji are going to do yet. We also have a small vineyard with 3 different types of seedless grapes (Canadice, Reliance, Concord) and some Muscadines (Big Red, Fry, Ison, Dixie Red). Two of these muscadines already died; but the other two look real good...just not sure which ones they are as cannot find the tags on them. Have a couple of Hardy Mulberry Trees planted to feed the birds. Also planted an English Walnut and some type of large, soft-shelled pecan. Not sure what they're going to do as the deer were keeping them pretty short until we fenced them in this year.

This year we enjoyed what the squirrels left of both Asian Pears, found "one" Methley Plum and a nice harvest of grapes. Next year some of the others are due to bear and I will have some electricity ready for those squirrels/coons! muhahahaha

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We just ordered Red Jonathan and Early Harvest semi dwarf apple trees, two of each. Those will be the first fruit trees for our new property.

In the spring we'll be looking at getting semi dwarf cherry, peach, pear and apricot. Maybe some nut trees also. Not sure of the exact varieties yet.

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Or this link:
http://maplevalleyorchards.com/pages/home.aspx

Wow! Every single tree is sold out?

The good quality nurseries sell out every year.

You order early for next spring. They ship bare root, wouldn't be shipping trees now, anyway.

They may not offer trees for sale in fall. maplevalleyorchards.com is a northern nursery. I suspect you try again after first of year and their website will be updated. they do ship in spring. I will be ordering some scion wood from them this spring if I am still alive.

The link I gave earlier in this thread to www.bighorsecreekfarm.com may have trees left though its getting late in season. I ordered and got two apple trees from them. Ordered in middle October and trees shipped in late October when trees went dormant. Trees were well packaged, my only complaint is they dont offer tracking just wild guess on when trees might arrive via USPS. But they are packed well enough that they should survive even a longish trip.

Yes just checked website, they apparently take orders through Nov 20. They have a current (as of November 1) list of still available trees. They dont take credit/debit cards. You have to email them and reserve the trees, wait for an emailed invoice and confirmation that the trees are still available that you want, then send a check or money order by snail mail. So even their fall sales season is ending soon and they are in Virginia. You can however order your choice of grafted trees (your choice of scion and root stock) for delivery NEXT fall.

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several of you have mentioned paw paws and i was wondering if you had any tips for keeping them alive and producing in a zone 7/8 climate. my mother has had some for several years but they have never produced. we've read a lot and folks say they require carrion flies (she even dragged some road kill over to try to attract some but the night critters stole the road kill . maybe you could describe the kind of area they are in (around what other plants? type of soil and drainage?) if they are wild. i know they do well to start out as understory trees but i thought they needed some sun once they were mature. sorry to crash the post, but just couldn't let the opportunity pass me by!! thanks in advance...

Have a Royal Ann and an Indian blood peach. They're both young trees that have yet to bear a single fruit.

The Blood peach has a very interesting history. This peach was supposedly orignally from Spain, and one of the few peaches that sprouts "true to type" from seed. That means you can plant the seed of a blood peach and the resulting tree will still bear blood peaches (Elberta is also close to true to type).

When the Spanish first started landing on America's eastern shores in the early 1500's, they gave some of these peaches to the American Indians, who learned to cultivate them. Because they grow true to type, the native Americans could just keep planting them without learning how to do grafting.

When the first British settlers started landing on the the eastern shore a century later, they found groves of these "Indian peaches" that where blood red in color, hence the name. The British had no clue they were Spanish peaches dropped off almost a century before.

BTW, if you want to plant your own seeds and to find out what you'll get, apples and pears are the most variable, and planting an apple seed might give you something that is only barely recognizable as an apple. Most cherries, and european plum varieties like Stanley and Green Gage are better choices for planting seeds. What I am doing myself though is planting apple and pear seeds to get grafting stock. I then cut off the top of the seedling and graft on known apple varieties. I do sometimes leave an original seedling branch on the grafted tree. It can act as a pollunator for the grafted tree, and someday I might get lucky and find something worth keeping.

In our yard are they are all low chill varieties. We get less than 400 chilling hours each year so that really limits what fruit trees will grow and produce.

"Mountain" Peach (unknown variety has somewhat tart peaches but it's prolific and there's peaches out there now.
"Florida Prince" peach
"Eva's Pride" peach
"May Pride" peach
"Desert Delight" nectarine
"anna" apple
unknown variety of avocado tree
unknown variety of tangerine tree (very prolific and sweet)
Minne Lee cherry
Royal Lee cherry (they pollinate each other)
two different almond trees (I forget their name right now but they pollinate each other)
unknown variety of lemon tree
Washington navel orange
unknown variety of Japanese plum for pickled plum
Brazillian cherry
three thornless blackberries and one thorny raspberry
Dwarf Chinese banana
apple banana
unknown variety of white grapefruit. I may graft a branch of ruby red onto it.