Fruit Trees!!!!!

[Shared Acres]

Thanks! I already have two lemon trees and was planning on doing a couple rows of fruit trees.

One lemon tree is about 16" and the other is about 5' and BOTH are producing lemons!

 

[smom1976]

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oh that is what I want too.. Lemons, oranges and limes..

where did you get yours?

 

[Dixiedoodle]

Are these on grafted root system? At 6ft. the trees are several yrs old. You will need to prune properly--very important to do it correctly and early. I did not let my fruit trees produce fruit for two yrs after I planted them. I wanted the energy going into great root systems. The third year, I had several apples. By the four yr. I had enough to can and make jelly from..

I planted four peach trees, every yr. they are FULL of beautiful pale pink blossoms and set 100's of green peach shaped fruit BUT because I refuse to spray (peaches are favorites of all kinds of pests and fungi) I have never gotten ONE peach.. I had thought about having my dh pull them up but my honeybees adore them--so they can stay.

I have plums, peach, blue,black, dew-berries, fig, pear, cherry, apple and muscadine and table grapes and do not spray anything==the peach is the only ones that are not able to handle it!

This yr. I planted Asian persimmon and pomegranate and I hope they do well without spraying..

 

[smom1976]

I get my trees today

we already picked out spots for them in the yard..

we are totally filling up our back yard to help sustain us.. we got the chickens.. we have the garden going in bigger and hopefully better than last year. and now fruit trees.

any ideas on other things we can put up in our yard for self sustaining?

 

[Lunachick]

Wouldn't blueberries or strawberries be fun to grow in Fl? I like all kinds of fruit, but berries are my favourite.

 

[Shared Acres]

Daygrower on here just said he'd get me some trees and fruit bushes (blackberries, thornless) for a good deal.

My lemon trees I got as a housewarming gift this summer. I asked for plants!

 

[MissPrissy]

We have apples and damson trees.

Last year we put in peach, pear and cherry.

This year I would like a meyer lemon for my house.

 

[AllChookUp]

smom - What kind opf apple trees are they? You should have two of each kind to cross-pollinate. And per a couple of earlier posts, don't count of fruit for a few years.

How fast the trees mature and bear fruit depends partly on what kind of soil you have. My parents have really black, rich soil so their fruit trees bear quickly. Of course, that means they go through their entire lifecycle more quickly, and die sooner.

I have sandy soil. It can take 5-6 years for one oof my fruit trees to bear. But they seem to live longer, too.

I have 2 Harleson apples trees, 2 Whitney crabapples, 3 Honeycrisp (the BEST - developed in MN), 2 cherry trees, and a bunch of flowering crabapple trees (just for looks).


Good luck!

 

[PotterWatch]

We just got a free nectarine from a group trying to plant 1million trees in Los Angeles county. So we now have a plum, apple, and nectarine. I can't wait for them to bear fruit!

 

[Lunachick]

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I just got a Meyer lemon tree for my heated sunroom. It has some blossoms on it that smell heavenly. But I think I did something wrong because despite the blossoms on it some of the leaves are falling off. I see no bugs or anything and the leaves are still green.