3mo ago

What is your favourite fruit tree to grow?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21789538

Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!

(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)

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Figs. Once it's established, it's very resilient.
Cherries are a pain, because if you don't use netting, birds get them all.
- Do the birds not eat the figs if you let them ripen fully? Or do your figs not turn purple when they get ripe?
  
  Fig trees produce a sap that is an irritant, keeps most birds/animals away. Ants are probably the most likely to try to chew on the figs.
We have a loquat tree, were asian we harvest it all the time. the bees go nuts for it once it start flowering. it does take a long time to grow to a sizable tree with a good harvest. birds never go after the loquats though. i think it has been around for 30+years.
- It takes a long time, but it doesn't require help? Something like that is worth waiting for.
  
  i think it fruits quickly if you are layering, or using a clipping. ive seen smaller ones fruit. i forgot my dad either grew it from seed or from branching(might be branching).
My mum has a sweet plum that fruits in July in Dfb (Poland). It is amazing, it gives a lot of fruit every two years, a real treat, my favorite.
If you want to plant a pear, look out for juniper in the neighborhood. There is a common disease that transfers between these two.
- Do you know the cultivar name of the plum?
  If you want to plant a pear, look out for juniper in the neighborhood. There is a common disease that transfers between these two.
  I think that you mean infection, not disease. Disease is not communicable.
  
  It is an Opal Plum.
  BTW, my first search results agree with my palette ^‿
  Some call plum ‘Opal’ the most delectable of all fruit. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/plum/caring-for-opal-plum-trees.htm
  Picked straight from the tree it's probably the best tasting of all the plums. https://gardenfocused.co.uk/fruitarticles/plums/variety-opal.php
  PS: If you really want to be technical, it is the pathogen that is transmissible. Infection is what happens when the pathogen "invades" the tissues and/or afterward (different uses). Some dictionaries (e.g., Merriam-Webster) literally put the word disease in the definition of infection. But yes, the pathogen is being transmitted, not the disease, as in the spread of HIV, not the spread of AIDS.

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