Need fruit tree suggestions for Northern California
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Comments (4)IÂm in California zone 9, and share your enthusiasm for very sweet fruit. The Owari Satsuma mandarin starts the citrus season in November with sweet, easy to peel mandarin oranges. Also very good are the Cara Cara navals, Kishu mandarins (small but seedless, easy to peel, and candy sweet) and Gold Nugget mandarins. Prunes and pluots are not necessarily firm fleshed, but can be sweet. Last year was the first year for my pluots, but they were very good and sweet as well: Flavor Supreme, Flavor King, and Flavor Queen. Prune trees are much sweeter than regular plum trees- some people say theyÂre too sweet and bland, but I had some last fall from the store that were very good, and will be giving a few cultivars a try here. IÂve tasted some dried Prune de Agen from France, and they were slightly more flavorful than a dried California Prune de Agen Improved. The new white aprium, "Cot-N-Candy" sounds promising as well. The Spice Zee Nectaplum I tried at a fruit tasting had firm flesh, was very sweet, with a nice touch of spice and some acid. Apple trees that IÂm growing with hopes of the sweetest fruit are Red Fuji, Honeycrisp, and Pink Lady, but they havenÂt produced yet. My Black Persian mulberry has wonderful sweet fruit as well. If you consider vine fruit, the yellow "Sun Sugar" cherry tomato is the sweetest, like tomato candy. Wine grapes are usually sweeter than table grapes, but they have seeds, and are not firm fleshed. I havenÂt tasted any seedless grapes that I would recommend, yet. Seeded Concord is still my favorite. I started a bunch of grape cuttings last year, including wine grapes, may or may not get fruit this year. If you like berries, for regular sized everbearing strawberries, Albion is consistently very sweet and firm, as is Mara des Bois from White Flower Farm, although less firm. Other strawberry varieties IÂve tried are hit and miss, with more misses than hits. In short, any fruit you grow at home and allow to ripen to perfection on your tree or vine is going to be sweeter, more flavorful, than those at the grocery store. Good luck....See MoreIndian Soapberry Tree in northern California?
Comments (2)You may very well be right about that, as nearby were Coffee plants with ripe fruit, which I know I couldn't pull off here in Berekely outdoors, but do know of plants in unheated enclosed entry ways in San Francisco that do have fruiting coffee trees. The tree was gorgeous at the LA County Arboretum, but the more drought stressed tree at the Huntington would not have caught my attention. It did appeat to appreciate a shaded protected spot, and was so loaded with fruit that they appeared as if flowers. Litchi can be grown here locally, but is less likely to give fruit here than in southern California, needing a very favorable spot. All I can do is try some, and give it the best conditions I can. Knowing that there is probably a good reason why I have never seen this tree here locally......See Moretropical fruit trees for northern GA?
Comments (6)Understand that a lot of the information out there concerns commercial growing - so there are plenty of people saying "you can't grow apples here" when what they really mean to say is "apples take some extra effort to get a decent harvest". The southeast is full of pests and diseases that affect fruit trees. You can manage most of them but you'll only win the battle and not the war. New pests pop up every now and then - things our grandparents never had to deal with. In my zone 7b Raleigh NC garden I get good crops with no spraying on mulberries, muscadines, table grapes, serviceberries, strawberries, goumis, jujube, elderberries, raspberries, blackberries, wineberries, aronia, kiwi (fuzzy and hardy), cranberries, figs, pawpaw and blueberries. I get good crops with low spraying on quince, cherries, bush cherries, 'Arkansas Black' apples. I get good crops with lots of spraying on Asian Pears, Asian Plums, European Plums, 'Orient' Pear, 'William's Pride', 'Gold Rush', 'Horse' apples. Note that most of the named cultivars are "disease resistant" and I still have to spray them because they still catch diseases, they just don't get overwhelmed with disease like most of the more common cultivars. Regardless of what the books say, if you snoop around you will find gardeners growing things that aren't supposed to do well in your area. Sometimes that means you have to do a lot of extra work. Some people might not think it is worth it....See MoreProblematic fruit trees for northern Virginia
Comments (0)My two persimmon trees did not wake up this spring. The varieties were Nikita's Gift and Saijo. I planted them last year. The trees did not seem happy after planting, had a stunted growth throughout the summer. I want to try the American persimmons next. Hopefully I will have more luck with them. On the other hand the Kaunching quince (probably original name of the variety is Каунчи-10) planted last year was very cheerful and growing like crazy. A few weeks ago, though, I had to get rid of it after it was attacked by Cedar-Quince Rust. Branches throughout the tree were covered in brown swellings. I like quince and I want to try a different variety. Any suggestions for a variety resistant to Cedar-Quince Rust and Fire Blight? I want to share this information in case it will help others in the NOVA area. Cheers. Andriy zone 7a...See Moresautesmom Sacramento
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